-- Report of the trip in Tasmania

Thanks

I thank Évelyne and Jean-Claude Wagnon who gave me much information to prepare my journey in Tasmania and who during the six weeks long lavished their advice on me.

In six weeks I traversed 4559 kilometres. Have I all seen? I do not believe it. Have I seen the main thing? I hope it. The road tracklog shows that there are areas not visited. It is difficult to conceive a trip without there are omissions and returns by some roads. Some areas have not road, there are National Parks listed on the World Heritage. Out the coastal areas Tasmania is an island of medium mountains with roads twisting between hills, they are sometimes very sloping with turns out as pins. I visited museums, but each village has one offering more or less interest. Very often they exhibit agricultural mechanization from 19th century with photographs of the population of this era. Tasmanians embellish their village to attract tourists in the main comes from the continent, some rare foreigners visit the island. For a few decades they have restored the old buildings, from 19th century, to testify to their past, recent. The island having been the discharge of convicts from England, Australians come to look at their antecedents. It is not insulting to have an ancestor convict, quite to the contrary. Fauna and flora are at honour everywhere either in topics parks or in interpretive signs peppering trekking trails. Alas for the flora it was not really the season. The last week was particularly cold and rainy. Tasmanians are rather cold like the temperature, but each time I needed assistance they were obliging, understanding and interested by my project of trip round the world.

In Tasmania the side roads are clean without refuse, moreover signs along the roads inform drivers: Call to denouncement or psychological action of prevention?

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