Now it's official - I've only got West Australia to go, and I've been to every state down under... And as this is the most down under of all the states, its also the furthest south I've ever been in my life! Hurrah!

Mooching around Hobart we found the Cat and the Fiddle arcade where every hour on the hour the clock re-enacts the nursery rhyme. Didn't see the dog laughing, but the dish and the spoon went AWOL together as expected.

After mooching about Hobart for a bit, we hired a car and set off towards our first destination - Launceston. There were heaps of interesting things along the way though. Tassie is lovely - check this out for a local, you'd never leave it (and I reckon some of the locals don't!) This is the Ross Bridge - kind of nice for convict labour. Tassie was originally Van Demons land. No convicts were sent directly there - they would be sent to Sydney first to the penal colonies there, then if they re-offended during their sentence or after release, they would be send out to Tassie to complete their punishment. Stopping for petrol along the road, we found a row of bricks detailing some of the convicts who had served their time in Tas. some of them were sentenced for the most mundane of things. Check this poor soul out.
The Spiky Bridge was another convict work of art. No-one is quite sure why the spikes though.

Found some great road signs again aswell!

Arriving in Launceston, we booked into a hostel and onto a ghost tour and went for a spooky wander around town. It turns out that most of the old buildings in the area have a resident ghost - but this time I actually SAW a ghost! *drumroll* ladies and gentlemen, I give you..... Elizabeth the ghost of a young lady who was forcibly married off to a bit of a meanie who murdered her. The night she was stabbed in the stables, her true love was crushed to death by his horse and carriage.