Hill Tribe Travels

Some smiles and happy faces yesterday on day 1 of lockdown. 🐰🐇🐰🐇🐰🐇🐰🐇🐰🐇🐰🐇🐰 #hilltribetravels #minilop #minilopbunny #minilopbunnies #melbournelockdown #wewillneedapetsitterforholidays #excitedkids

Today's afternoon adventure. Olive's face 🤣🤣 priceless 😘😘

🌞🌞🌞🌞 Happy Sunny Saturday 🌞🌞🌞🌞🌞 Perfect day for discovering a new local playground! Have a great weekend 😘🌞🙌🌞😘

This is when camping is not always fun! Remember that post I shared when it was bucketing down outside the tent?!?!?!?! I think the tent nearly floated away!!! Puddles everywhere. It was a bit of a miserable morning to be honest. Thank goodness we changed our camping plans from the more remote National Park (Which looked amazing) to the NRMA Port Arthur. Here they are well set up for the changeable Tassie weather with multiple fire huts and a big camp kitchen. The fireplace huts were definitely well used! The pizza oven was a super addition to the outdoor kitchen space! #campingintherain #tassieweather #rainintassie #hilltribetravels #nrmaportarthur #campingislife #madeitwork #goodfacilities #gumbootsneeded #kidslovedit #freezingtassie #tassieroadtrip #thermalweather #freezingtassiewater

Another @amazingraceaustralia reference in Tassie! Guess whose house we visited?!?! We really loved the road between Hobart and Richmond. This is what we were expecting the Huon Valley to be more like – door to door wine, cider, figs, chocolate, diary etc – yum!! #amazingraceau #amazingrace #chillishouse #excitedkids #farmer #hilltribetravels #kidshavingfun #amazingraceaustralia #tasmania #hobart #visittasmania #exploretassie #tassieroadtrip #exploringfamily #goat #chilligoat #tasmaniachocolate #amazingraceaufamilyedition #tasmaniaproduce

Back to our last week in Tassie…… A super quick stop off to step back in time to visit the Richmond Bridge. It is the oldest stone span bridge in Australia! Took us a few minutes to try and work out how old the bridge actually is! Richmond was a cool little town. Literally cool! It was freezing! The weather had definitely turned by this part of the trip 🥶 so much so that we were on the phone to the camping site to see if they had cabins available for us......they didn't 😟 #richmondbridge #richmondtasmania #exploretasmania #hilltribetravels #mathsontheroad #travelislearning #visittasmania #tassieroadtrip #familytrip #mylifemyway #makingmemories #richmondtasmania #freespiritedchildhood #holidayswithkids #awesometravelkids #lpkids #familybackpacksdventures #kidsthumbsup #tassiehistory #tassiecold #takethekids #travelwithkids #familytravel

Happiness is...... demolishing a doughnut at the end of a huge walk (for little legs!). The first half of our walk along the river was terrific. The second half up and down along 4wd tracks was a bit of a slog! I kept telling the kids it was all a mental battle. These things are building both physical and mental strength. They can do anything they set their mind too. Have a great week. Filled with positivity 😘😘😘

The little mountain goats off again 🤣 at Lederderg Gorge. A slightly last minute decision for a hike today given the 🌞 was shining. We made a few rookie errors though 😲😲😲 ❌ We dressed for 17 degrees in Melbourne only to see the temperature drop to 9 upon arrival. Luckily we had a couple of layers so were ok when we started walking. Apart from my hands. My hands were cold until we got home 🤷 terrible circulation 🤔🤔. Silly mistake, I'm always cold ⛄ ❌ It was a last minute decision to hike somewhere different with no maps or idea of where we were going ❌ We wasted 30 minutes before we even started the 4.5 hour hike on the wrong path. Turned it into a 5 hour hike 🙄 ❌ We set off too late in the day. We were stressed we'd be walking back in the dark 🙄 ❌ We could see the rain coming across the range and we hadn't packed any rain gear (we made it to the car before the rain) But...we survived. We had water, food, lolly snakes and the doughnuts were waiting back in the car! There is limited information on the hike but we think it was between 11km and 14km. Pretty slow going in parts. Was a good 4.5 hours.... Absolutely exhausted now though. Kids well and truly asleep and I'm not far behind 😴🥱😴🥱

Another day exploring in Tassie means another swinging bridge to cross over. Gotta love the great outdoors - the best playgroun#takethekids . . . . . . . #tahuneairwalk #swingingbridges #swingbridge #hilltribetravels #littleexplorers #naturesplayground #tassieroadtrip #lovethemtobits #familytravel #familytimes #loveyourtimetogether #crazylittlekids #getoutandexplore #takethekids

The brief.....Show us your best grumpy face 🤣🤣🤣 Terrific outing to the Old Melbourne Gaol. Somewhere I haven't visited since school!!! #explorelocal #melbournefun #hilltribetravels #familydayout #familytime #kidsthumbup #exploremelbourne #gaol #melbournegaol #oldmelbournegaol #escapethegaol #loveyourtimetogether #familyfun #lifeisgood #saturday #visitvictoria #nedkelly

Good Morning!! Have a super weekend 😆🥰 * View from the top of the Tahune Airwalk in Tassie 😘 #huonvalley #tahuneairwalk #exploretassie #hilltribetravels #mumsinphotos #goodmorning #happysaturday #tassieroadtrip #lovetassie #travelislife #airwalk #skywalk #fearofheights

Of course the view upwards is amazing also!!! Here is a look at the airwalk from down below. Such a beautiful area to explore. #tahuneadventures #tahuneairwalk #huonvalley #visittasmania #hilltribetravels #exploretasmania #tassieroadtrip #worthit #exploringslowly #viewupwards #viewfromtheground

It wasn't too scary (maybe just a little!!). The famous Tahune AirWalk is an elevated walkway 30 metres above the forest floor, in the Huon Valley, with the final cantilever section sitting at a height of 50 metres above the Huon River 😮, you'll find amazing views to both the Huon and Picton Rivers. To reach the start of the AirWalk you’ll gradually ascend 104 steps, it's a gradual incline which gives you time to get any nerves under control!!!

Look closely.......would walking out here give you the willies???? #freespiritedchildhood #holidayswithkids #awesometravelkids #familybackpacksdventures #kidsthumbsup #hilltribetravels #takethekids #takeyourkidshiking #takethekidshiking #getoutside #seetasmania #tasmania #tasmaniaroadtrip #takeyourkidsoutside #tahuneairwalk

A-Ha! I found a rafting photo of the 4 of us!!! Any recommendations on where we should investigate for another family friendly rafting adventure?