Our next port was Port Arthur, Tasmania and I questioned why? Well I was wrong and we had a great time and was quite interested in the ruins of the old convict settlement. James did catch up with us and kept me laughing the entire time with his stupid jokes and commentary. We gave him a pass since it was his birthday.

One of the interesting aspects of our walk was the dodging of obvious droppings pictured here. I mean it was everywhere. Later we were informed that the droppings were from Wallabies and patty melons. A patty melon is a small wallaby and is called that because a patty melon is considered obnoxious. These animals hate tourists so they hide in the bushes.

Later that evening my friend Tony told me about walking close to the bushes (probably to find a Wallaby) and as he did so he saw a strange black stick. As he bent down to examine this stick closer it moved away from him. Since Tony is scared of snakes he moved very fast in the opposite direction.

My friend Robert who is on my trivia team is from Australia so I asked him about this black snake. He said it was a tiger snake, very poisonous but also very shy. He told me to tell Tony to stay out of the bushes.