TASMAN PENINSULA - NEIL THE SEAL-THE DOG LINE - CHOCOLATE FACTORY-TESSELLATED PAVEMENT - COAL MINE.

WELCOME BACK THIS WEEK ON DNA.
WE START THIS EPISODE AT EAGLEHAWK NECK ON THE TASMAN PENINSULA.
THIS IS WHERE THEY HAD A DOG LINE OF 9 DOGS IN A ROW ACROSS THE 30M NECK.
THE NECK AS WATER ON BOTH SIDES ONE WAS THE OCEAN AND THE OTHER WAS THE INLET.
AT THIS POINT IS WHERE THE 9 DOGS IN A ROW WERE SETUP SO IF ANY CONVICTS ESCAPED FROM PORT ARTHUR, THEY WOULD HAVE TO PASS THIS POINT.
A RUMOUR HAD BEEN SPREAD THAT THE WATER ON BOTH SIDES WAS SHARK INFESTED AND THE ONLY WAY IN OR OUT WAS PASS THE GUARDS AND THE DOG LINE.
FROM HERE WE WALKED PAST A LOCAL FARMERS MARKET.
NEXT UP WAS THE TASMAN ARCH - HERE WE FOUND WE NEEDED ANOTHER PARK PASS TO HAVE A LOOK.
THIS ARCH WAY CAN BE REACHED FROM THE LAND OR BY SEA - WE TOOK THE LAND OPTION.
TO GET TO HERE YOU HAVE TO DRIVE THROUGH THE SMALL TOWN OF DOO TOWN WHERE NEARLY EVERY HOUSE HAS A NAME WITH DOO IN IT.
WE STOP ON THE WAY OUT TO SHOW HOW SMALL "THE NECK" IS WHERE THE DOG LINE STRETCHED ACROSS.
AFTER A BEAUTIFUL DRIVE THROUGH SOME FARMLAND, WE CAME ACROSS "NEIL THE SEAL" SPREAD OUT ON THE ROAD SOAKING UP THE WARMTH FROM THE SUN.
AFTER GETTING A BIT OF HISTORY FROM THE CARER LOOKING AFTER NEIL WHILE HE HAD BEEN ON THE ROAD FOR SOME 16 HOURS WE MOVED ON.
MAKING OUR WAY TO COAL MINES - THIS IS ANOTHER FREE ATTRACTION.
THIS IS WHERE THEY SENT THE WORST CONVICTS WHO CONTINUED TO RE OFFEND.
IT IS ALMOST RUINS NOW BUT THERE ARE STILL THINGS TO WALK THROUGH, AROUND AND IN.
INCLUDING TUNNELS THAT STILL HAVE THE SOLITARY CONFINEMENT CELLS THAT YOU CAN EXPLORE.
THIS IS A MUST DO PLACE YOU COULD EASILY SPEND HALF A DAY HERE EXPLORING - WE JUST GAVE YOU A SMALL EXAMPLE OF WHAT TO EXPECT.
NEXT STOP -THE CHOCOLATE FOUNDARY, NIK WAS HANGING TO GO HERE.
IN HERE THERE WAS ICECREAM, CHOCOLATE IN ALL SHAPES AND FLAVOURS.
AFTER A FEW TASTERS NIK DECIDED ON A COCONUT FLAVOURED BLOCK.
NOT TOO MUCH FURTHER DOWN THE ROAD IS THE TESSELLATED PAVEMENT.
IT IS ONLY A SHORT WALK DOWN TO THE VIEWING PLATFORM FROM HERE YOU CAN READ ABOUT HOW THEY WERE FORMED AND GET A BIRD'S EYE VIEW OF THEM.
IF YOU WALK ABOUT ANOTHER 3 MINUTES DOWN THE PATH YOU WILL COME TO THE STEPS THAT TAKE YOU DOWN TO THE TESSELLATED PAVEMENT.
IT IS AN EASY WALK AND YOU CAN WALK RIGHT ONTO THEM AND EXPLORE.

THIS IS WHERE WE END THIS EPISODE.
HOPE YOU ENJOY THIS ONE AS MUCH AS WE DID AND KEEP FOLLOWING US ALONG AS WE EXPLORE TASMANIA.

SO, GRAB A DRINK A COMFY CHAIR AND SIT BACK AND RELAX AND SEE THE ADVENTURE UNFOLD.

CHEERS DAVE, NIK AND INDEE.