Day 15: Boat home.

Last day! Get up early for the boat, then wait in line for a couple of hours. Today is Melyssa’s birthday. For the second year in a row, we are travelling on her birthday. She’s been complaining, so we’d been teasing her that she’d got absolutely nothing. She’d begun to think that we were really serious, so she was pretty surprised to a get a camera. She’s been hanging out for her own, and she got right into it too – 253 photos, and 2 pairs of flat batteries, and that just on the boat alone.

Today was a beautiful day, and a nice quiet boat trip, the boat not quite so full as last time, and we were a little better prepared with things for Tali to do. She got the facepainting woman to paint on her arm:

Finally, nearly there – view out the back of the boat with the Port Philip bay heads in the background.

And when we finally got home, Grandma and Grandad were waiting with a cake for Melyssa’s birthday.

Well, we’re home, and this diary is done. We really enjoyed Tasmania, even though we didn't really get to relax, and even though we missed so much. We’d love to go back for more, but there’s so much else to see in the world too. I guess we’ve got at least a full year to figure out what comes next.