American Couple Reacts: Tasmania! Australia's Island State Tour! FIRST TIME, EVER REACTION! 

Oh Tasmania, where have you been all our lives? This place is absolutely incredible! We have NEVER seen Tasmania before and can't thank those of you who told us too, enough! We certainly didn't expect all that is shown in this episode. And the Wombats!! We want one! Ok not seriously but they are incredibly cute. Journey with us all the way around Tasmania and enjoy the beauty that is there. Also, thank you to our very first Aussie friends for our P.O. Box gifts at the beginning! Aussies are incredible people and we learned that right out the gate! Thanks to each of YOU for watching! If you enjoy our content, please consider subscribing to our channel, it is the BEST way to support our channel and it's FREE! Also, please click the Like button. Thank you for your support!

I live in Tasmania and it really is that beautiful. We feel privileged every day to live here.

As an Australian I have to say that this was the best travelogue on Tasmanian I've seen . I suspect that the reason for this and also the reason you are normally bombarded with views of stereotypical harsh barren landscapes from Australia is that the videos are made by foreigners mostly Americans who like to dwell on the dramatic . Tasmania is one of the most beautiful places I've been on my 50 years of travelling , it has the cleanest air and water on the planet (a scientific fact) and some of the last unspoiled forests and wildlife anywhere . It should be noted that you would find the greener parts of Australia in every state and territory and most of our cities whether huge or small are greener than most cities in the world . The wombats wallabies kangaroos and koalas are just a few of the many cute freindly animals in Australia check out quokka, bilbys, sugergliders flying foxes ,etc , the fairy penguins you saw are found on the mainland also and I've seen them as far north as Port Stephens in NSW . There are over 10,000 beaches in Australia the vast majority of which are what you would call white but the beaches of Queensland's Whitsunday area include the actual whitest sand beaches in the world and are a sight not to be missed . I'm an old invalid which nothing better to do now that my travelling days are over so I love to watch channels like yours that take an interest in my beutiful country , and tend to waffle on to long in the comments in the hope they may help you in some small way .

Tasmania is my home state & so many ppl, even Australians don't realise how beautiful & diverse it is, I love it ❤❤

Hi ladies. One interesting thing not mentioned in the vid is the Huon Pine, a species of tree found only in Tasmania's far Southwest near Strahan. (A town shown in the vid) It exists nowhere else on the planet. There are living species of this massive tree that are 2000 to 3000 years old, and some of the fallen timber is way older. A stand of trees (a continuous living group) was discovered to have existed for over 10,500 years. This amazing tree thrives in a wet environment but does not rot due to natural oils in the timber. The Huon pine was used extensively in early shipbuilding, and was almost logged to extinction, but patches survived. Of course, it is now protected. We hope you are enjoying a peek at our great country. Cheers.

As a proud Tasmanian, thanks for looking at and appreciating my home state. Glad you enjoyed it so much :)

In country Australia most farmers will have what is called " honesty boxes " by their front gates. You can buy all kinds of food and fruits, leave your money in honesty boxes.

I'm an artist who lives and paints here in Central Tasmania. I work in an amazing park called Liffey falls. The rainforests are cool temperate and this site is renowned for the most amazing variety of fungus. I say in Tasmania we leave one iconic place to go to another iconic place for a holiday weekend. Still so many place not been to yet. Come down to breath.😊

My bestie moved to Tasmania 10 years back so I visit a lot. It is truly gorgeous, to the the point that you sometimes get overwhelmed with the non-stop beauty. But you’ll keep coming back…

Tasmania has some of the cleanest air in the world . Beautiful state and well worth a visit.

Did you see us there, crossing the spooky bridge??😊😊😊 We do 4 different carriage tours of Hobart and we think Hobart is the prettiest capital city in all of Australia❤

As a born and bred older Tasmanian this video reminded me of how much I love living here and how lucky I am ❤

You are so luck you were sent this look at Tassie. I live in Burnie and have found most the time we don't get mentioned in RU-vid clips. The majority show Launceston, Hobart, Cradle Mountain and all the areas around those places. This clip has given a more inclusive veiw of Tasmania. Naturally, not everything is included but it does give a good taster for what the state has to offer. Tasmania is 68, 401 square kilometres (42502 square miles). Our population is around 527,000.

as a tasmanian, i can tell you it is the most beautiful state with some of the best food

You could spend several years touring Tasmania and Australia. Tasmania was once connected to the mainland by a land bridge to Victoria. Much of the landscape is similar to what we have in southern Victoria, including wombats, koalas, little penguins, wallabies, echidnas (pronounced e-kid-na), and much, much more. Hobart is the destination of the world-famous Sydney to Hobart yacht race held at the end of the year. It is also the base for the Antarctic supply ship. A most wonderful state to be in (excuse the pun).

1 AUD is about 66 US cents, so 2/3rds. That rental is around $2400 USD for the month. Most places in the south can go for roughly $1200-1400 USD a month.

Born and bred in Tassie. I'm even descended from a marine (and family) on the first fleet to Hobart in 1804! Winter usually sees Mt Wellington with a dusting of snow, but this vid was at the tail end of the season heading into Spring. Snow is more in the Central Highlands. It's a pity they didn't head inland a bit more to historical Georgian towns and villages like Oatlands, Evendale, Ross etc. Even just googling them brings up beautiful pictures.

I love seeing your jaws drop while watching this video, Tasmania is full of beauty and one of a kind

wombats (or pudgeybutts as i call them) are super cute, harmless and friendly, and strange-but-true: their poopies are actually cubic in shape (i'm not even kidding)

Stanley is my favourite town in Tassie. Absolutely drop dead gorgeous and reputedly has the cleanest air on the planet. My wife and I spent three weeks travelling around Tasmania in our campervan in October/November 2022. My wife's first time in Tassie, my third. Due to weather, we didn't get to see the west coast but did a loop from Devonport, Launceston to Hobart, from Hobart up the east coast to St Helens, across to Stanley, then back to Devonport to board the Spirit of Tasmania back to the mainland. We'll be back.

Our world is a beautiful place, so many wonders of nature in all countries. My Mum and Dad loved camping Tasmania especially the west coast as it reminded them of Scotland immigrated in 1962 to Australia.

Dover is great little community, I used to fish of the pier in 1960s where we had aholiday home just a 200yards from the bay , housing and land very reasonably priced, its one the most southern part of Australia.

Tasmania is such an amazing place with an amazing history. I grew up in Ulverstone 30 minutes east of Burnie on the Coast. Wallabies are a smaller relative of the kangaroo. The rain forests are actually called temperate rainforest rather than tropical rain forests. It used to be connected via a land bridge to the mainland of Australia ( thousands of years ago ) Tasmania has the cleanest air in the world. Weather patterns continue uninterrupted from the east coast of south america to the west coast of Tasmania. Tasmania has a population of approx 500,000 and is the second oldest colony of Australia. Sydney first then Hobart. As a convict if you were bad you went to sydney if you were really bad you got sent to Tasmania. The West coast of Tasmania has rain most of the year round. Cradle Mountain is exceptional and the overland track takes roughly 6 days to walk ( Dad and I actually ran it on year and did it in 3.5 days ). Most tourists come for a week or so and that is not enough!! So many more places to see and so many more things to do. A rental property will cost you approx $270.00 usd per week on a 6 - 12 month lease. If you girls ever decide to visit Australia the wife and I would be more than happy to show you around the state of Victoria and Tasmania.

Thank you for appreciating my state. I live on the northwest coast of Tassie between Penguin and Devonport and you have reminded me why I still choose to live here. Thanks again.

I’m loving learning about Australia ❤

That was so Amazing. Beautiful, stunning, spectacular and all of the above. WOW. 😮😅❤️🇺🇸🇬🇧

I have lived in Melbourne for 33 years (from UK) travelled all over the world but, to my shame only ' discovered' Tasmania 5 years ago. And now I am obsessed. It is a stunning island. The hiking is fantastic, the coastline is spectacular and the produce is world class, especiallythe sea food.

I'm an expatriate of USA living in Tasmania. Great to see your video.

G'day Guys! Currently the Aussie dollar is worth about 63 US cents so their month rental works out to a bit less than $2,000 US... Natasha that first bird flitting about was one of the many species of "Fairy Wrens" we have across Australia...The "goose" is indeed a "Cape Barren Goose." Cheers! Almost forgot...Different Richmond...Your AFL team there is in inner Melbourne...

Greetings from Tassie, my home. Tassie is stunning and even more beautiful than conveyed. The air and water are amongst the most pure in the world. But beware, it isn't a cheap holiday - we know our worth!

This is my home state and a place I am immensely proud to live in. 2 things - Koalas are on the mainland, not Tassie, and the name you missed for the spikey little creatures is echidna [pronounced: ee kid na].

I have been watching your videos and I came across this one and was so thrilled that it showed Dover where I live (about 5km's from town on a 21 acre property. I am a Catholic monk and we have a simple monastery here. We have lived in Dover since 2015. It is so beautiful here. Dover is 80kilometres south of Hobart.

My late wife was from south of Hobart in Tasmania. Huonville was famous for its apples. My mother in law worked 45 years straight picking apples and pruning apple trees, she is 90 now. We had numerous visits for shorter periods but the scenery and wild life is amazing. The east coast has many lovely places. Never got to the west coast. There is far more to see and many places are some that you would just drive past and not notice. The view from Mt Wellington is fantastic.

Thanks, really enjoyed your entusiasm for our beautiful country!

There are Cool-temperate, Warm-temperate, Dry, & Subtropical,tropical Rainforests in Australia. Tasmania has 4 different types of cool-temperate rainforest - and is by far the best example of that kind of lush, misty, crispy-fresh-air type of forest. On the other hand, if you headed north for about three & a half thousand kilometres, you’d find yourself in the Wet Tropics Rainforest in Queensland, part of the oldest continually surviving tropical rainforest anywhere. The area includes the Daintree Rainforest, where along some stretches of coastline the tropical forest grows right down to the edge of the ocean. It’s over 135 million years old - the oldest rainforest in the world. Definitely the best place in the country for soft, hot, wet, tropical-air forest, where you can actually imagine you saw a pterodactyl fly overhead.

Wow.... beautiful video ladies ... what a stunning place x

Princess Mary of Denmark was born and raised in Tasmania. She met Prince Frederick in a Sydney pub (Slip Inn) during the Sydney Olympics 2000. She will be Queen of Denmark one day.

Errol Flynn was from Tasmania starred in films in the 30s born in Hobart in 1909 died in 1959.

Simon Baker (The Mentalist) was born in Launceston., Tassie. Parents moved before he turned 1, but that’s where he started.

thanks for looking into my beautiful state! i have lived in launceston all my life and really enjoy people noticing us!

Tasmania is like the Scotland of Australia. It snows there during winter.

With all the turmoil in the world Tasmania is a great place to live.

As wonderful as this is, the one thing that it can’t convey, is the incredible smell of the forest’s, and the ocean’s. Tasmania has some of the cleanest air in the world, and it is stunningly beautiful.

My wife and I did a 10 day trip to Tasmania, and were lucky to even see a fifth of the state. Highlights of our trip were Port Arthur Heritage Convict Settlement(did both the day and night tours), the Tahune Treetop Walk(looking down the Huon River Valley), the Penguin Walk at Bicheno(on the north east coast), Cataract Gorge in Launceston, Woolmers Estate(The 1.53 hectare Rose Garden which has Heritage Rose varieties along with more modern varieties), and Bothwell(for a small town it has over 50 heritage listed buildings, along with the only consecrated toilets - that's another story). You could take two months, and you might just about see all of Tasmania.

My eldest brother and second eldest sister live in Tasmania ....they have so much of a good life there ....beautifull part of the world

I'm Australian and never been to Tasmania but wow after seeing that I want to, I can't for health reasons but thanks for sharing that. 🥰🙂

Since living here we have been to every corner of the state (23 years). It only took one hour flying from Hobart to Melbourne to sell our house in Western Australia to buy a house in this beautiful place. Wombats are fabulous, as long as they aren’t hit by a car cos they can take the front diff out. BTW we live in one of the most beautiful places on the island.

Thank you for showing our beautiful state Tasmania, you are welcome anytime to our precious piece of paradise 😊

As someone who lives in Tasmania (Hobart), I tend to forget how fortunate I am. This video is a beautiful reminder that I get to live in such an incredible place. 💚

G’day guys. Have lived in Tassie my whole life. Will never leave 😊

You're right; Australia is so much more than desert (although that's stunning too!) Looking forward to seeing you guys discover more about our amazing country. BTW, don't worry about swearing. We Aussies are a pretty casual bunch!

Great video, Natasha and Debbie. In answer to some of your questions: Richmond Football Club is based in an inner city suburb of Melbourne, rather than the town in Tasmania. The AFL started as the Victorian Football League (VFL). For most of its existence, this was a 12 team competition made up of 11 Melbourne suburban teams plus Geelong, a city about 75 km (45 miles) from Melbourne. Because of it's inner city origins, fierce rivalries developed between supporter of the clubs. It became part of people's identity. When you met a new kid at school, the first question would be "What's your name?" and the second would be "Who do you barrack (root - that term has a different, altogether ruder meaning in Australia) for?". There are still 9 Melbourne teams (Richmond, Carlton, Collingwood, Melbourne, North Melbourne, Western Bulldogs, Essendon, Hawthorn, St Kilda). Two of the Melbourne teams moved interstate (Fitzroy Lions merged with the Brisbane Bears to become Brisbane Lions) and South Melbourne moved to Sydney. Additional teams were added from Western Australia (West Coast and Fremantle), South Australia (Adelaide and Port Adelaide), Queensland (Gold Coast) and New South Wales (Greater Western Sydney) to make up the 18 team AFL competition. Tasmania has a long and proud history of Australian rules football and has produced many champions of VFL/AFL football but does not have a team of its own in the AFL. This has led to much resentment and there are serious moves now to get a team in the AFL. It has some mainly economic hurdles to overcome to achieve this. Another noted Aussie rules region of Australia that is not represented in the AFL is the Northern Territory, which also has a long history of playing the game and producing some extremely talented players, particularly indigenous players. AUD3000 is about USD 2000 (AUD1 is worth about USD0.67). Pretty sure the bird in their garden was a willy wagtail. Tassie is cool and wet. In 2021, there was 1,378 mm (54") average rainfall in the state. They get 80% of their electricity from hydro. Yes, the birds on Maria Island were geese (Cape Barren Geese). Yes, wombats are cute. An unusual fact: there poo is cuboidal. The scary animal you may have been thinking of is Tasmanian Devils. They are noisy and aggressive (like in the cartoons), but i actually think they are cute too. No, the bit in Queenstown was not winter. They said they went to Burnie in December, which is our summer. The spiky animal was an echidna, one of two montremes (egg-laying mammals) in the world, the other being the platypus. It occupies an ecological niche a bit like a hedgehog and mainly eats ants and worms. Tasmania is Australia's smallest state, at 68,401 km^2 (26,410 mi^2), closest in size to West Virginia (62,756 km^2 or 24,230 mi^2). Its population is 541,000, closets to Wyoming (576,000). You could do a reasonable lap of Tassie, hitting all the highlights, in about 2 weeks. But of course, you could easily spend much longer if you had the time. Tassie doesn't have all the fossils. There are great fossil sites throughout Australia. Australia has many of the oldest fossils in the world. There are also "living fossils": stromatolites that look like lumps of rock, but are actually ancient bacterial mats, in WA and SA.

Fairy penguins - there is a place called Philip Island just south of Melbourne and close to Tasmania but in Victoria (mainland) and it has a famous run of fairy penguins that visitors spend time filming. That island is the former home of the Hemsworth brothers before Hollywood.

Thank you so much for your videos ladies and just love your reactions on Australia. This one on Tasmania gave great detail for a short a video. Well done to the producer.

Feel so lucky that Tassie is my home. Currently exploring the far south of the state and loving it. Thanks for your appreciation of the place.

Reward yourselves by listening to some Aussie music . Try John Farnham in concert with the Melbourne Symphony Orchestra singing 'Help" and "Your the Voice" a pop singer with an orchestra backing him, you will be amazed and delighted and emotional too, and also try "The Seekers" "I am Australian" final farewell performance ...... more emotion and delight

I live in Tasmania. Visited here in 06 and never left lol ❤

Hi Ladies. Love your show. I live in Tasmania. A bit over an hour from Cradle Mountain. By the Sea. My Grandfather planted the Orchids in Dover and my Uncle now owns it. Your question about realestate at Dover. It’s quite cheap to buy there. Yes they do need Hair Stylists. If you were to visit I would be Happy put you up and show you around.

Thank you so much for the shout out! It was a pleasure to send you the scarf, and I really didn't think you would show it on your channel! To be clear, there are about 15 different Richmond suburbs in 5 different states in Australia. The AFL Richmond Tigers are a major Victorian football club since 1885, and Richmond is a neighbouring suburb of Melbourne (capital of Victoria), and adjacent to the MCG or the Melbourne Cricket Ground - commonly known as the 'G. This season starts this Thursday night 16th March 2023, Richmond vs Carlton at the 'G with an expected crowd of 85,000-90,000 for an opening game. You can view some highlights and you may see me there - when you come to Australia I would love to take you to a game! Your Aussie friend - Nick.

Great reaction thankyou!👍 Just for a light-hearted giggle of Aussie slang - a common reference to a woman's "nether region" is her "map of Tassie"!. A glance at the shape of Tassie,and it becomes fairly self evident. -Just a bit of trivia for you.😄 Zebedee from Oz. 👍👍

I love visiting Tasmania, it’s breathtakingly beautiful. From visiting family there it feels like an amazing place to live if you’re well off, retired or just there for a short stay. It can sometimes feel like a harder place to live for younger people with lower incomes, due to fewer opportunities, but still a great place to be. Tasmania is a must visit destination.

Hi I"m a tasmanian and live in Burnie (the penguins come ashore on the beach which is situated at the end of the main street in Burnie) though this video shows a lot of places in Tasmania and only briefly there was a lot of great places that they missed in this video ie Tasman peninsula where they do a spectaculer cruise and port Arther penal settlement ,Arther river area with beautiful beachs ,also the west coast is very different to the east coast and the highlands area is different again . The MONA museum which they showed only breifly is one of the best in the world owned privately by an eccentric art collecter the building itself is amazing , I have spent a lot of time bush walking in Tasmania where we have over 100 walks of all varieties and the most spectacular scenery what you seen in the video is only a small taste of the scenery available ,the south west corner of tasmania is a protected park area and except for one road into a hydro power station the only access is via foot ,boat or plane you can spend weeks walking in this area . There is a lot more to see in Tassie ( what locals call this island) you can spend a month continuously travelling here and not see it all note - Tassie is a big island , lived here all my life still haven't seen it all and I have travelled around it alot.

Great awe inspiring video, what a beautiful island state, Tasmania is now on my bucket list 😍

What is the average Tasmania rainfall? Rainfall varies dramatically across the island. Hobart, with an annual average of 25 inches, is Australia's second-driest capital city (after Adelaide), while on the west coast an annual average of 95 inches.ensures the rainforest thrives

If you want to know about Tassie ask a Tasmanian. The North West Coast is simply stunning as is the west coast and there are so many wonderful places to explore. Come visit, you'll love it.

Moved to Tassie over 20 years ago and I’m still finding more and more beautiful spots. I’ve been exploring the east coast which was not featured very much in this video

Those spiny animals are echidnas, one of the world's only two monotremes (egg-laying mammals) the other of which is the platypus - also commonly found in Tasmania. The wombat is also an interesting creature for two particular reasons - 1) it's pouch faces backwards so it doesn't get filled with dirt when it digs a burrow; 2) it has cube shaped poop. Seriously.

I loved this you guys ❤ I'm so glad you enjoyed this. My mum is Aussie and my Dad is Maori/Kiwi so I pledge allegiance to both countries 😂😂 despite being born in Aussie I spent most of my upbringing in NZ, these scenes remind me so much of NZ, it really is very similar! So beautiful and one of the main reasons we have fought so hard to protect it ❤ You know, Aus and NZ are like bickering siblings, we hassle and tease and make fun of each other but no one else is allowed to and we always have each other's backs, I guess that's the best way I can describe it 🤷😂 When you get a chance and if you're interested you would love watching similar videos of NZ 😁👍🇦🇺

I grew up in Launny and most summers growing up we'd go camping on Maria Island. Massive nostalgia feels watching this. Don't be fooled by the beaches, the water is SO cold. The aussie dollar is worth a little less than the Canadian dollar if that helps with quick conversions.

You both nailed “G’day. Well done ladies.

Love this, being Tasmanian it's easy to forget just what a wonderful place it is. While you can't have a pet wombat, wildlife carers are sometimes needed to raise orphaned babies - the mother of one of my friends was rearing an orphan wombat and I still remember this tiny mostly hairless wombat charging up and down the hallway of her house.

You might like to know Princess Mary (of Denmark) was born and bred in Hobart Tasmania. Also swashbuckling Hollywood star of yesteryear Errol Flynn.

Check out either the Blue Mountains just west of Sydney or the Snowy mountains down southern eastern part of Australia. You'll be blown away with what to see there. 👍

At 26:10 you said the rainforest looks like it would be from South America, well, your right on the money! From my knowledge Tasmania used to be part of the supercontinent South America was a part of so they have some of the same rock formations and plant life, beckoning a similar look.

Love your reaction to the things most Australians take for granted ,this place is vastly different from coast to coast from the tropical north to outback and tassie hope you get a chance to see our land of wonders

Tasmanian has breathtaking sea cliffs on the south coast near Port Arthur.So majestic.. Port Arthur has a sad history of suffering. The Port Arthur historic prison site saw our convicts being treated brutally. From floggings to freezing wet leaking stone cells. Unfortunately in19 95 it witnessed the biggest shooting massacres in known Australian history. . It's a very poignant place but the ruins are still intact with some houses of the prison officers being faithfully restored. Definitely worth seeing

Hello from Perth Western Australia. I went to Tasmania years ago on holiday well worth the visit. Visited Port Arthur an former prison colony and it has a chocolate factory too.

That little fridge on Bruny island is stocked with the best sourdough bread that one of the locals bakes every day, it works on an honour system, take your loaf and leave your money in the tin. There was a place called lake pedder on the west that had a 3km pink quartz beach but sadly the government F’d up. I’m so lucky to call Tasmania home 💙

I ❤ my trip around Tasmania. There is so much to see and he is so right about the food. The purest air in Australia to my mind. $ conversion is AUD$3000 = approx. US$2000. I loved The Wall in The Wilderness which was an art work in progress when I visited comprising panel after panel of wood carving. Truly amazing. We found the accommodation fairly reasonable everywhere we went with Strahan being in the upper $ range but well worth the 5 days we spent there checking out the harbour, the river and the rain forest and the rack and pinion railway through the rain forest mountains. Never pass up the food offerings because of the $cost because the quality of the food cannot be surpassed (except maybe could be equaled in Scotland), and NO I am not a Tasmanian and I have travelled the World and the quality of the food was that good. ❤️ you girls 👋

You seem amazed by the penguins in Tasmania southern coastline. There are also several colonies along the southern coast from New South Wales in the east to penguin Island in Western Australia. There are colonies in Manly, a suburb of Sydney and In St Kilda an inner Melbourne suburb only about 7 km from the Melbourne city centre.

Tasmanian born and bred, seen a lot of the world, but wouldn’t live anywhere else!

Thanks so much, Tasmania is beautiful. I love the Wombats too 😊. This reaction made me smile heaps. Keep up the excellent work N & D 👍

As a very proud Taswegian (another name for someone who has always lived in Tasmania), I wish more people would acknowledge that we exist. If you ever make it here, make sure you ask to see the little known areas and attractions - many of them staffed purely by volunteers. This is the first video of yours that I have seen, and I am definitely subscribing

Ladies, there's only one team, The Navy Blues, the Carlton FC. 😁 Tomorrow new season begins, your Tiger's vs my Blues. Sold out, 90,000+ Thursday night, MCG.. Woo hoo. 🥃👍

amazing how much Queenstown in Tasmania is like Queenstown in New Zealand (though probably more mountains in NZ)

Wonderful clip of Tassie girls. I love your reactions to the beautiful scenery everywhere.... I'm from Melbourne, and live about 30 minutes from the CBD in a town called Werribee. It's so great to see lovely people who are so interested in learning about our culture. I look forward to more informative and funny clips from you both. Stay well and shine xxxx

Hi ladies, I thoroughly enjoyed watching you having your first sight of my island home Tasmania, I've travelled most of Australia and I'm always glad to get back home to Tassie. The video was great but there is much much more to see in the state. Seeing cradle Mountain and dove Lake covered in snow is something really special. I hope for your sake that you manage to get here someday, i would love to play for guide for you guys. Oh and toss that tigers scarf away ave get yourself a Carlton blues one. They are the most successful Aussie rules side of the lot, and way classier 😉

Tasmania is absolutely beautiful! I am in Melbourne, Australia and did a driving holiday through Tassie. It is a gorgeous state! PS Those animals that looked like tiny kangaroos are pademelons and the small quilled animal is an echidna. Have been really enjoying your reactions to our fabulous country! Richmond, Tasmania is not related to the Richmond (a Melbourne suburb) AFL club. Hope to see you both downunder one day!

Thanks for this - I sometimes need reminding that I live in one of the most spectacular places on earth. There is no where in Tassie that isn't beautiful. Sometimes in the ordinariness of life, we forget that. I'm not a fan of cold, and it is cold by Australian standards. I have friends in Canada who laugh at me often . . . . I've lived in other places in Australia and miss the warmth. The saving grace of Tasmania is that it really is just so beautiful. I hope you do get to see and one day experience it for real. You might need and want more than two months though . . . . .seriously. It's an under rated place.

Never really thought about Tasmania. I just went 😳😳😳😳😳😳😳😳😳 Thanks for this one.

As a North Queenslander, I laughed a little when she referred to it as a tropical rainforest 😂

Spent just under six months in Tassie and drove over 8,000 kilometres. We towed a caravan and camped mostly in RV friendly sites. Often in small areas off the road surrounded by wildlife of every type. This was in 2010 and we still have friends we met there doing the same as us. Beautiful place to stay for a relaxing time.

Thank you for checking out our beautiful state! We often get left off most things Australian even the map sometimes so it is appreciated muchly!! If you ever get down to our island number one local top I can give is bring and wear sunscreen. It’s a bit of a myth that we are a frozen tundra with polar bears roaming around (actual quote from a Melbournian) lol but we have the highest UV and get burnt even in a sunny day so slip swoop slap 😎😉 Also watch the roadkill we try to clean it up for tourists but they just keep jumping out haha

I'm a Richmond supporter, all AFL games originated in Melbourne, Victoria.

Love your positive outlook that you bring to YT. Love the joy you get looking and new things. I hope you get the chance to experience some of them. Also, as a childish 60yo bloke, I kept chuckling, and I am sure many others did as well, at your references to a Map of Tassie. Very much an Australian phrase. Urban Dictionary will explain.

Greetings from Hobart, Tasmania! I moved here from the mainland approx 10 yrs ago. It really is beautiful and very green. There are only about 250,000 people in Hobart area, so it’s quite small and a quiet, slow pace of life compared to much of the mainland. Twice I’ve almost hit a kangaroo/wallaby with my car in the suburbs only 5-10 mins from the city centre. My first night visiting Burnie, I was lucky enough to see the Little Penguins (formerly called Fairy Penguins) come out from the sea into their burrows at dusk. Sooo cute! I haven’t seen much of Tassie due to health reasons, but what I have seen is stunning. The video was good but it really is even more beautiful in person. Cataract Gorge in Launceston is only a few minutes from town and it so amazing, with peacocks roaming around freely near the cafe area. I’ve also lived in Brisbane in Queensland and Newcastle in New South Wales and both are also great places. The beaches and coastline of Newcastle are amazing and many are right next to the city centre. As you can tell, I could rave about these places for ages 😂 Hope you guys get to make it all the way over here one day and you survive the incredibly loooong plane ride!

A while back I watched a fascinating documentary about the extinct tazmanian tiger. But it was mentioned that there are rumours of recent sightings obviously suggesting that it may not be extinct. This to me makes it even more fascinating. I'd love to know if it's still out there.

Tassie is a national tressure. We drove there in our 4wd from Sydney, took spirit of tasske (boat transfer) from melbourne. Then drove around & camped all over for 3 weeks.. it wasnt long enough & cant wait to go back. If you like nature, hiking, camping & foody or artsy stuff, then there is no shortage of things to enjoy there..

I'm from Tassie and live in this beautiful state after returning from Western Australia where I was for 20 years, please check out the Walls of Jerusalem national park photos, it's out of this world, mainland Australia call us " back wards" or poor cousins but they don't know what they are missing!!, thanks for your appreciation of my wonderful Island state❤🙏

We stayed for a few days on Bruny Island back in 2007; absolutely gorgeous. The pub on the southern tip of the island is supposed to be the southernmost pub in the world, so it was great to have a beer and lunch there, as well.