Tassie

[debbieann]

We had a fantastic vacation in Tasmania. It is still my favorite state. We went down for two weeks - one week at the MONA music festival. The theme this year was percussion. We saw heard lots of music we like. It was a very comfortable festival - every day we went there by boat and then spent 10 hours outside and in the museum hearing music, looking at art, eating good food. It was very relaxed, great sound systems.

A partial list of the music we heard:
Mirel Wagner
Ensemble Offspring
Hailu Mergia and Tony Buck and Mike Majkowski
Kim Myhr
Evelyn Ida Morris
Yyan Ng
Oren Ambarchi and Will Guthrie
Kate Tempest
Arthur Russell's Instrumentals

We also ate at some great places in Hobart. My two favorite were Franklin and Little Missy Patisserie.

After our week in the city we had a week in three different wilderness spots -
Strathgordon http://www.pedderwildernesslodge.com.au/ and
Corrina http://corinna.com.au/overview/ and
Tarkine Wilderness lodge http://www.tarkinelodge.com/
They were all great. We got to spend a day going up the Pieman river to where it meets the ocean. We went on some great hikes through nature. We saw a 1000 year old myrtle tree.

I hope we go back to Tassie soon - next on my list is Maria Island - maybe this: http://www.mariaislandwalk.com.au/