Born and bred Hobartian, with ancestors on the First Fleet founding the city in 1804. Tassie is indeed paradise and probably the best place to be in an apocalypse. 👍
My husband and I went to Tasmania for our honeymoon 12 years ago and pictures really do not do it justice. As a Sydney sider, I think it's the most beautiful state in Australia.
Sydneysider here. The food scene in Hobart is top notch. Super seafood, cheese, fresh fruit, wine. For historical Tasmanian stuff you have to check out, I’ve two words for you: Alexander Pearce.
I live in Tassie. Ex UK via Sydney, Northern NSW and 35 years ago came south. The best place. My mum was born in Glasgow but I was born in Llanelli Wales. Truly Celtic heritage . Love our heart shaped isle.
Hobart and Launceston are OK, however I think the North West coast is an overlooked gem. Especially places like Stanley Nut, Cradle Mountain, Tarkine rainforest, Boat Harbour Beach… and many more.
I flew from Victoria to Wynyard and worked out of Stanley back in 2016 (17?), when bushfires were active in the ranges to the South. It's a beautiful town, the scenery is second to none. Nice pub, too. We didn't get to enjoy it as much as we'd have liked, due to our firefighting commitments. We'll definitely be back when time permits.
Latrobe, Tasmania, born, lived, worked, family.....this video does not do it justice, Hobart is a very small part of the beautiful whole of Tassie....breathtaking 😊 Come and stay ❤
I was born in Tassie .. lived in Hobart ... 7th Gen on one side arriving in 1816 ... merchant navy... Tassie is full of old buildings and I think it is the most beautiful State .. best fruit and veg, cheeses, Pink Eye Potatoes, berries, cherries and apples ... best Sparkling Wine and Cascade Beer is the oldest brewery in Australia.. all fab but the weather... long winters with wind.. if you come to Australia Tasmania is a must for at least a couple of weeks... In the south... Huon Valley ... fab rainforests and fruit in summer is wonderful...East Coast .. gorgeousbeaches, North East - Lavendar and sparkling wines, NorthWest Dairy country and Cradle Mountain area .. spectacular rugged mountains, West Coast National Heritage forests, rivers and beauty everywhere...do come!!
We went to Hobart for a week's holiday in the middle of winter, July last year. It was COLD but it was so pretty. The water is so crystal clear but also the prettiest bright blue. It was amazing. We visited quite a few places in that video, in fact we stayed in a hotel that was on the end of the IXL building featured in the video! Ryan you HAVE TO come to Australia! To every state, you have to experience it here for yourself. Surely we can crowd fund this to make it happen!
G'day Ryan .....Tassie here ....thanks for the vid . I live in the Fingal Valley about 2.5 hours from Hobart , about 1.5 hours from Launceston . None of our mountains are super high by any means but there are so many it's ridiculous ...Every morning I get up I can see Mt Nicholas Range , Ben Lomond , Mt Elephant , St Patricks Head , South Sister and not quite in view but close is dramatic North Sister.... Fifteen minutes from the white sandy beaches , rivers everywhere , lakes , trails , not over crowded ..Mild winters by Northern Hemisphere standards and gorgeous summers .. Truly some of the best food in the world . Not perfect but pretty darn good ....
Born in Hobart at the same hospital as Errol Flynn. Queen Alexandra Hospital, Battery Point Hobart. It no longer exists. Tasmania is the most mountainous island in the world. Not for the height , but at the frequency of which they occur. Lived here for 70 years plus
Debunking is always fun. But sorry to say, there is no debunking to be done here. We live in paradise. Yes. our locals malls have hoons and trouble makers. Our low socio economic suburbs are pretty sad. But all in all, it is without a doubt, the most beautiful, amazing, mind blowing and majestic place to live! Come visit. ❤❤❤❤❤
I would suggest go round the whole island if you can, do not miss many of the scenic villages and little towns. Yes, you probably need to hire a car but it is totally worth it.
If you don't have time to do the whole state, which takes a few weeks if you want to do it properly, I would suggest, Mt Wellington, Richmond, MONA, Tasman Peninsula on the way to Port Arthur of course. These are all in the South, but I always suggest to people as well, if they have time, that a visit to the West Coast is a must especially Strahan (pronounced strawn 😊) Gordon River cruise, just stunning 😍. Hope you have the best time and the weather is good to you 👌🤗
I live in Adelaide, South Australia and I love it here, but if I was forced to leave, I would choose to go to Tassie, before any other state. Have visited a few times, and it’s wonderful.
Hobart is the capital city of Tasmania, and second oldest city in Australia! Launceston is the second (and third) city and was also the administration for the State of Victoria! All its history still exists, and is treasured, so does all it's natural assets! 💗 Definitely the arts is very popular and anything marine - organic, natural, clean, outdoors! Cascade Brewery - Cascade beers, ales, ciders! 😋 Antarctic studies, University, Casino, shops, beaches, Real Tennis, Cricket, AFL, etc! 🙋
Magestical 🤩. You have to watch the New Zealand movie, Hunt for the Wilderpeople. Not Aussie but a top movie depicting some NZ ways of living. I love it and when you said majestical you reminded me of a scene from this fantastic movie. Love your work 🦘
Absolutely love Tassie. We always stay at the historic Henry Jones Art Hotel ( the old IXL Jam factory) when we're in Hobart. MONA is phenomenal! I am in FNQ but would move to Tassie in a heartbeat.
Having lived a long life entirely in Tassie, I just have to add that theres more to our little state than Hobart. It loves and gobbles all the praise when theres some spectacular awesomeness in east, west and all the north. I wish you could experience it.
@bar-d1423 Very much agree there. They are very lovely and very welcoming. Many famous international sports stars , movie stars , footy players , motorsport legends, and even a future Queen all born and bred there. And amazing pioneers from the convicts and explorers and to the people of today make Tassy the place every visitor loves.
Tasmania is different from the rest of Australia in many ways. For instance in a geological time scale Tasmania has only recently joined or collided with the rest of the Australian continent. This occurred long after Australia separated from Antarctica and the rest of the supercontinent of Gondwanaland. It is now believed by many geologists that the underlying geology of much of Tasmania was formed when it was located and attached to what is now North America, somewhere near Colorado, as Tasmania's geology has many similarities and origins to the geology near the present day Grand Canyon. So somehow little Tasmania detached itself from what is now North America, traversed across the proto Pacific Ocean, East to West, North to South, to then ram itself into the rear end of Australia as Australia was itself migrating in a Northerly direction.
Hi Ryan Those early convicts did some really bad things like steal a loaf of bread or a scarf. Mainly so they would not stare to death. Many early convicts came from England. Early transport crates were marked POME --- Property of Mother England. So when you hear Aussies refer to the Brits as Poms -- the nickname actually came from the Poms themselves. Cheers
Wow, that is a lot more believable than what they said in a video Ryan reacted to last week "American reacts to 101 Facts about Australia [part 2]" in which they said Pommy is a slang term for pomegranate which kinda rhymes with immigrant! 😂
Not quite. There never was a crate marked Property of Mother England. The truth is - like most Aussie and London slang - it is rhyming slang. ‘Pommie’ is short for ‘pomegranate’, which sorta rhymes with ‘immigrant’.
@@noelleggett5368 Well perhaps you should take a trip to the penal colony in Port Arthur in Tasmania where you may actually see with your own eyes what I am talking about. Have you actually been there?
@@robynking-oq7kc Slang terms are almost never drawn from acronyms. (I say ‘almost’ only to protect myself, in case there might have been one. But in over 40 years of reading about etymology of popular slang in English, I’ve never heard or read of a single proven case. All the folk etymologies of slang derived from acronyms - posh, wop, wog, pom, etc. - have all been proven apocryphal or just plain wrong.)
Didn't mention Wrest Point Casino is there - Australia's first casino built in 1973. People used to go to Tassie specifically to go to the casino, it was such a novelty to have one in the country. Then they built them on the mainland from the early 80's and that casino tourism ended for Tassie.
Ryan you nailed it. “Uncorrupted”. Holiday Ed there about 10 times now. Time capsule island. Magnificent. The closest thing I experienced to Tasmania whilst I was in America was the San Juan islands of Washington state. Try to see a video on the Gordon below Franklin River . Known as the cleanest air in the world, absolute pristine forest. It’s a magnificent place
Tasmania is a great place for seafood. Great quantities of Atlantic salmon are farmed along it's northern coastline. Great dairy products, including some seriously good cheese. Did I mention apples? My best memory was buying a freshly caught and cooked rock lobster, and a loaf of local sourdough bread in Strahan on the south west coast. And along with a local dry white wine, Tasmanian butter, fresh salad vegetables from a road side farm stop, enjoyed a feast camped near Cradle Mountain further up the western side of Tasmania. And that's coming from a Canadian living on the mainland of Australia.
I think there is a worry about fish farming in Tasmania, too many in a spot where the water becomes contaminated by fish crap and this is harming the environment.
MONA is AMAZING for its art content and its architecture. The Dark MOFO festival is a must-do. (Sea) Scallop pies are absolutely delicious. Tasmania is to be adored.
Ryan, Tasmania is stunning beautiful, the waterfront Botanical gardens,Mona, the salmon ponds and Norh west to the tarkine are all amazing places. I hope you get to visit us one day.
I'm from Sydney but lived in Hobart for many years from primary school to high school with frequent moves back to Sydney as my step father was in the navy so we moved quite a bit. It's a magic place with clean air and the water out of the tap is like bottled water in Sydney! I'd be living there now but it's too cold for me now that I'm older. It does have hot summers but they are short. They have the best pubs with "counter meals" that I've found anywhere and the best seafood because the waters are so clean. My cousin has an oyster farm in the south of the state. The USS Enterprise (nicknamed the "Big E") on a visit to Australia in 1979 was supposed to moor in Sydney but Sydney Harbour wasn't deep enough for it so they came to Hobart as the Derwent River had the depth it needed. A magical and pretty place and I hope to see it again in the not too distant future - around a 2 hour plane ride direct from Sydney to Hobart ❤
That isn't true about the USS Enterprise and Sydney Harbour. A search will find pics of it in the harbour during the 1964 visit. It didn't visit Sydney in 1979 due to restrictions in place on nuclear powered ships.
@@glennscurr836 That would be why I didn't notice anything about a visit in 1979. Starting from Jan '79 it was at Puget Sound Naval Shipyard for for a 36-month refurbishment. That is still true about the issue with nuclear powered ships at that time though.
@@glennscurr836 It was actually at Puget Sound Dockyard for a 36 month refurbishment from Jan 1979. It's still true about the issues with nuclear powered ships at that time. (sorry if 2 comments show up, YT is being silly, or something).
My great great grandfather was sentenced to life in Hobart. He was sent out from England on one of the last of the convict ships in 1849 or close to that. Something happened on the voyage that he was involved in that caused him to be granted a provisional pardon, the provision being he never return to England. He married and stayed in Hobart for about six years before moving to New Zealand
MONA is amazing. It is built underground in a former quarry. You descend through the various levels using a glass elevator or a spiral staircase which wraps around the elevator. It is well worth doing a reaction just on this museum. You won't be disappointed.
@@jenniferharrison8915 I've been there heaps of times - every chance I get - and never been stopped from filming or photographing. Spectacular architecture and brilliant art.
Tasmania {Tassie} is a gem, it has it all. The most southern part of Australia. Closer to Antarctica than any part of Oz. 2500 kilometres. So yes it gets cold.
@@jenniferharrison8915 Although Canberra is closer to the equator it is colder than Hobart because it is inland and away from the moderating (warming) influence of the sea and is at a higher elevation. Canberra actually has an almost identical climate to Christchurch in New Zealand. Hobart is also warmed by foehn effect from winds that flow down mount Wellington (air heats up as it sinks).
Love Tassie and Hobart Have done the Cascade tour And Port Arthur Also a Jet Boat tour around Devils Kitchen Salamanca markets Hated MONA The top of Mt Wellington is wonderful The Tasmanian Symphony Orchestra is also amazing . I prefer the old things and history to the modern I love the cooler weather there too
There is a convict built well outside Canberra. It was built a long time ago to support gold miners and the quality of the well is just incredible, a work of art. That kind of work just can't be found these days. You and your family MUST come to visit Australia, and I hope you might even stay for good. We'd love to have you and family here. And just as a fact, the museum of old and new art, MONA, is mostly underground. Port Arthur is amazing, especially when seen from a light aeroplane. It is very big, which you don't realise when visiting on the ground.
I've been here in Hobart for 24 years. It's home. There's no better place in Australia. Hobart is a lot like Welligton, in New Zealand actually, but without as much strong wind as Wellington gets. I could not imagine living anywhere else but Hobart now.
Ryan, now you are looking at Tasmania, you must check out a vid on the World Heritage listed and pristine, Franklin-Gordon River, situated to the very remote south west of the island. Gorgeous
The Huon Valley is gorgeous. I have friends who live in Cygnet and I am pea green with envy of their gorgeous property there. If I ever win lotto, that's where you'll find me in the blink of an eye!
I’m rather biased cos I live in Melbourne and am a Melbournite but I have been to Tassie/Hobart MANY times, it is just beautiful and VERY MUCH worth visiting 😎👍🇦🇺
I love Tassie...Have been there twice, and have the most wonderful memories of cruising up the timeless Gordon River, which was unlike any other spiritual experience I can remember...Just breathtaking....I will return some day....
On top of the number of Pubs, there are a plethora of venues licensed to serve/sell alcohol. The small community I'm in has 2x Pubs with attached bottle shop , 1x standalone bottle shop (was a 3rd Pub until a kitchen fire), an RSL Club, a Bowls Club, a Yacht Club, multiple restaurants... Only a few less than the main township just up the road.
As for the pubs, it would have been no different from towns on the US West coast at that time. A brewed drink would have been much safer than the water, unless you enjoyed cholera or typhoid.
That's not the reason there were, and are, so many pubs in Tasmania - and Australia in general! In the early days of the colony, many exiled English and Irish were drowning their sorrows in booze, because they were unbearably homesick for their Motherland, and had no hope of returning to their country and family left behind. My great great grandfather made a fortune as a publican in the 1850s - he ended up building pubs all over Queensland, that were always packed to the rafters with melancholy alcoholics. This is where Australia's drinking culture springs from - it's a dark, tragic history, of families torn apart from their convict sons and daughters, exiled to the hostile and alien land of Oz.
@@pollywaffledoodah3057 Not the reason, a small part of the social problem and not just Tasmania! How many could afford to drown they're sorrows? In Sydney Rum was used as the currency because there was not enough money, and the soldiers made a fortune controlling supply and demand! Cascade Brewery is famous for its mountain spring water and highest quality ingredients not for supplying an addictive product, but an essential product! 😏
Tasmania is a place of great natural beauty. 42 years ago Australia had a very significant environmental event there when many people from all walks of life protested about the Franklin River being damed. The people won! It's the type of thing now studied by historians, environmentalists and legal experts.
It also led to the only semi-illegal vote in Australia. So many people added “NO DAMS” to their otherwise-perfect ballot papers (ANYTHING that MIGHT indicate who you are - however unlikely - automatically makes the vote informal & uncountable), the electoral commission gave permission to count them as formal. I’m not sure it made much difference to the final counts, but it was a sensation.
howyougoin mate???. to paddle down The Gordon River, a 250 million year old forest among the 3000 years old Huon Pine. is truly an amazing and magical moment. one your would never forget. The best whiskey in the world comes from Van Diemans land too. Stay safe cobber
Sydneysider here too, and yes, Tasmania is our “pure land” state. The air is fresh (in fact, the freshest air in the world), the produces use little chemical, the soil is rich, the sea has plenty of fishes, the scenery is heavenly.
Couple of thing's....Port Arthur...birth of gun control in Australia....and there is an awesome shot tower near brewery....where lead shot was drop hot but cooled in fall keeping its round shape!
I used to live in Taroona and have been to the shot tower near there, even went to the top and must say it was the most terrifying experience for me as I don't do well with heights! You enter in the middle looking up the 200 steps up to the top, I trembled the whole way up and no way could I look out out at the view, or down to where the shot would have landed some 400 steps down! Yeah, it was very memorable 🫣😲😂
My Dad was a German immigrant in the 1950s.He worked building the Trevalyn Damm in Tasmania .He paid his wayxto Australia but had to work for the opportunity of comjng here.
Tasmanian here, I've heard that Tasmania and Iceland would do extremely well in the event of a world catastrophe 😊. I love how you go and look up something right in front of us, it shows genuine interest 👌😃. Of course we have the same problems that most parts of the world are experiencing right now, but we are able to drive a relatively short distance to see something stunning to take our minds off the negatives 😊. The Port Arthur massacre of 1996 happened, which in turn changed our Country's gun laws forever. You asked how bad the people were that were sent to Port Arthur must have been, well, there is a plaque telling the story of a 9 year old boy being sent there for stealing, I think it was a coat to keep warm 😢, so freaking sad, so not all convicts were bad adults. You don't leave Port Arthur without feeling overwhelmed with sadness.
Hi Ryan, I started following and watching your content yesterday and I really like it! As an Aussie who lived a year in Hawaii when I was a kid here are some other differences between the US & AU that you may not know! Australia vs. America - Australia doesn’t have the mail box flags. You give outgoing mail to a post box, usually there is one or two in a suburb or give it to the post office. - Australia’s “drug stores” (called pharmacies) for medications are separate stores and not part of supermarkets. Although you can buy off the shelf medicines at the supermarket. - Australian primary and high schools usually don’t have sit down cafeterias. Lunch is not provided (like the lunch trays) but individual items can be purchased or ordered. - Australia’s Burger King is called Hungry Jacks. - Although Australia has a slightly warmer winter than the US in general Australian houses are not built well for winter and many are incredibly cold in winter time. - Australian states & territories have their own flags like in the US
Tasmanian here too. Most of my life lived in Hobart. That video really highlighted the most touristy aspects of Hobart and I love it. Mind you, I never recommend Salamanca to anyone. Too crowded and expensive
Australia does have a drinking problem given our past colonisers. Brits drink a lot too. Once upon a time the guards were paid in rum but that was mainly in Sydney. It's no wonder that a brewery was one of the earliest businesses.
Shout out to you too Ryan. I'm a Tasmanian from the other end of the state. Big Hobart v Launceston diss has been going on forever. (We don't admit it to them, but yes Hobart is beautiful, as are most parts of Tassie)
Always blown away when I see my Home Town randomly in videos.
Tasmania has the cleanest air in the world.
@@juleanekent917 He showed a video on that last year and has mentioned it other times too! 😄
Yep
And the USA is some of the most polluted. Australia has much cleaner air
Born and bred Hobartian, with ancestors on the First Fleet founding the city in 1804. Tassie is indeed paradise and probably the best place to be in an apocalypse. 👍
@@user-bf8ud9vt5b Definitely safe! It's not important enough to attack and it's too far away to be affected by a nuclear event!
@nukagirl9159 It's peaceful, a.k.a., 'serenity'.
Born and bred Tasmanian here! Love it!
I'm from the Huon Valley and Hobart, sad neither is shown on travel blogs often! 🙋
Me too! 💖
Me too
@@jenniferharrison8915 Eastern Shore FTW
My husband and I went to Tasmania for our honeymoon 12 years ago and pictures really do not do it justice. As a Sydney sider, I think it's the most beautiful state in Australia.
Thank you 🤗🌻🌻🌻, however, your Vivid Festival is to die for 👌🥰
area of Hawaiian islands 6.423 sq miles Tasmania 26.400 sq miles
Sydneysider here. The food scene in Hobart is top notch. Super seafood, cheese, fresh fruit, wine.
For historical Tasmanian stuff you have to check out, I’ve two words for you: Alexander Pearce.
It paid not to accept his invitations to dinner.
@@MrChannel2010especially camping trips.
@@NickJewlachow-of3yh Superior beef too!
I love your enchantment with Australia! It’s so nice to see. You need to come on down! Hobart awaits! ❤
I don't live in Tasmania, but absolutely save up, take the family. It will be worth every cent, beautiful place to holiday ❤️
Need to hire a car to travel round Tassie on holiday( vacation)
I packed up and moved to Tassie 37yr ago from Glasgow, Scotland and luv the place, the people, the way of life and the fresh air!
I live in Tassie. Ex UK via Sydney, Northern NSW and 35 years ago came south. The best place. My mum was born in Glasgow but I was born in Llanelli Wales. Truly Celtic heritage . Love our heart shaped isle.
@@CassTazWelcome! 💖
Hobart and Launceston are OK, however I think the North West coast is an overlooked gem. Especially places like Stanley Nut, Cradle Mountain, Tarkine rainforest, Boat Harbour Beach… and many more.
My family has a long history in Stanley. I recommend it to anyone who'll listen lol Amazing beaches. The view from the nut is a must
I flew from Victoria to Wynyard and worked out of Stanley back in 2016 (17?), when bushfires were active in the ranges to the South. It's a beautiful town, the scenery is second to none. Nice pub, too. We didn't get to enjoy it as much as we'd have liked, due to our firefighting commitments. We'll definitely be back when time permits.
And, you get to see the Aurora Australis from Tassie! ❤
Latrobe, Tasmania, born, lived, worked, family.....this video does not do it justice, Hobart is a very small part of the beautiful whole of Tassie....breathtaking 😊
Come and stay ❤
I was born in Tassie .. lived in Hobart ... 7th Gen on one side arriving in 1816 ... merchant navy... Tassie is full of old buildings and I think it is the most beautiful State .. best fruit and veg, cheeses, Pink Eye Potatoes, berries, cherries and apples ... best Sparkling Wine and Cascade Beer is the oldest brewery in Australia.. all fab but the weather... long winters with wind.. if you come to Australia Tasmania is a must for at least a couple of weeks... In the south... Huon Valley ... fab rainforests and fruit in summer is wonderful...East Coast .. gorgeousbeaches, North East - Lavendar and sparkling wines, NorthWest Dairy country and Cradle Mountain area .. spectacular rugged mountains, West Coast National Heritage forests, rivers and beauty everywhere...do come!!
Love how the majority of comments are Tasmanians! Hahaha. Who hasn't responded yet . . . Tis a beautiful part of the world. Not too bad living here.
My home city. Love it.
There are platypuses living in the local creeks and storm-water drains in Hobart. 😊
We went to Hobart for a week's holiday in the middle of winter, July last year. It was COLD but it was so pretty. The water is so crystal clear but also the prettiest bright blue. It was amazing. We visited quite a few places in that video, in fact we stayed in a hotel that was on the end of the IXL building featured in the video!
Ryan you HAVE TO come to Australia! To every state, you have to experience it here for yourself. Surely we can crowd fund this to make it happen!
And provide accommodation I'm guessing.
Born and breed in Hobart Tasmania. It really is just that beautiful and more! This dosnt even showcase half of its wild natural beauty ❤
Tasmania is simply magically beautiful
lol
Haha. Tasmania definitely doesn’t have Hawaiian weather
😂😂😂 my very first thought also when he mentioned Hawaii.
G'day Ryan .....Tassie here ....thanks for the vid . I live in the Fingal Valley about 2.5 hours from Hobart , about 1.5 hours from Launceston . None of our mountains are super high by any means but there are so many it's ridiculous ...Every morning I get up I can see Mt Nicholas Range , Ben Lomond , Mt Elephant , St Patricks Head , South Sister and not quite in view but close is dramatic North Sister.... Fifteen minutes from the white sandy beaches , rivers everywhere , lakes , trails , not over crowded ..Mild winters by Northern Hemisphere standards and gorgeous summers .. Truly some of the best food in the world . Not perfect but pretty darn good ....
Born in Hobart at the same hospital as Errol Flynn. Queen Alexandra Hospital, Battery Point Hobart. It no longer exists. Tasmania is the most mountainous island in the world. Not for the height , but at the frequency of which they occur. Lived here for 70 years plus
Specifically on the West Coast, the opposite side of Hobart!
Born in that hospital also, used to live in Battery Point
My Aunt did her nursing training in that hospital, and went on to be matron.
Debunking is always fun. But sorry to say, there is no debunking to be done here. We live in paradise. Yes. our locals malls have hoons and trouble makers. Our low socio economic suburbs are pretty sad. But all in all, it is without a doubt, the most beautiful, amazing, mind blowing and majestic place to live! Come visit. ❤❤❤❤❤
You would love it. I am a Sydney slicker, but have been down to visit Tassie many times
Living in Sydney, I am going to Hobart for the first time next month! A timely video, thanks.
I would suggest go round the whole island if you can, do not miss many of the scenic villages and little towns. Yes, you probably need to hire a car but it is totally worth it.
@@k.vn.k We are hiring a car and thanks for the suggestion of a round tour. Sounds good.
If you don't have time to do the whole state, which takes a few weeks if you want to do it properly, I would suggest, Mt Wellington, Richmond, MONA, Tasman Peninsula on the way to Port Arthur of course. These are all in the South, but I always suggest to people as well, if they have time, that a visit to the West Coast is a must especially Strahan (pronounced strawn 😊) Gordon River cruise, just stunning 😍. Hope you have the best time and the weather is good to you 👌🤗
I live in Adelaide, South Australia and I love it here, but if I was forced to leave, I would choose to go to Tassie, before any other state. Have visited a few times, and it’s wonderful.
@@Sharyn-x8e I would choose Adelaide second, it has the same historic respect and smaller community feel! 🙋
I love Hobart its absolutely stunning
Hobart is the capital city of Tasmania, and second oldest city in Australia! Launceston is the second (and third) city and was also the administration for the State of Victoria! All its history still exists, and is treasured, so does all it's natural assets! 💗 Definitely the arts is very popular and anything marine - organic, natural, clean, outdoors! Cascade Brewery - Cascade beers, ales, ciders! 😋 Antarctic studies, University, Casino, shops, beaches, Real Tennis, Cricket, AFL, etc! 🙋
I am the great great grandson of Irish Convicts and and my ggg grandmother was in the Cascades women’s Factory in Hobart 😊
My family lives in Tassie and I've been going once or twice a year for thirty years and still haven't even seen half of it! So much to see and do!👍
Magestical 🤩. You have to watch the New Zealand movie, Hunt for the Wilderpeople. Not Aussie but a top movie depicting some NZ ways of living. I love it and when you said majestical you reminded me of a scene from this fantastic movie. Love your work 🦘
Also, "I'm not a molesterer"! 😆 I love that movie.
Absolutely love Tassie. We always stay at the historic Henry Jones Art Hotel ( the old IXL Jam factory) when we're in Hobart. MONA is phenomenal! I am in FNQ but would move to Tassie in a heartbeat.
We'd all be interested in seeing your reaction to what became known as the Port Arthur massacre in 1996 and how as a result it changed our gun laws
He's already touched on it in "American reacts to Australian vs American Gun Laws"
Having lived a long life entirely in Tassie, I just have to add that theres more to our little state than Hobart. It loves and gobbles all the praise when theres some spectacular awesomeness in east, west and all the north. I wish you could experience it.
You go to Tas for the scenery and then stay for the food . An incredible State. It is a one of a kind island .
But you haven’t mentioned one of Tassie’s greatest asset - such lovely people!
@bar-d1423 Very much agree there. They are very lovely and very welcoming. Many famous international sports stars , movie stars , footy players , motorsport legends, and even a future Queen all born and bred there. And amazing pioneers from the convicts and explorers and to the people of today make Tassy the place every visitor loves.
Tasmania is different from the rest of Australia in many ways. For instance in a geological time scale Tasmania has only recently joined or collided with the rest of the Australian continent. This occurred long after Australia separated from Antarctica and the rest of the supercontinent of Gondwanaland. It is now believed by many geologists that the underlying geology of much of Tasmania was formed when it was located and attached to what is now North America, somewhere near Colorado, as Tasmania's geology has many similarities and origins to the geology near the present day Grand Canyon. So somehow little Tasmania detached itself from what is now North America, traversed across the proto Pacific Ocean, East to West, North to South, to then ram itself into the rear end of Australia as Australia was itself migrating in a Northerly direction.
1 pub per 200 people. Awesome. I think Kalgoorlie held the record of most brothels per capita.😊
Also more pubs per population. Even today so many pubs there
in 1830 the population was only about 23,000. "Pubs" were "inns", with beer made locally and very small operations.
Hi Ryan Those early convicts did some really bad things like steal a loaf of bread or a scarf. Mainly so they would not stare to death. Many early convicts came from England. Early transport crates were marked POME --- Property of Mother England. So when you hear Aussies refer to the Brits as Poms -- the nickname actually came from the Poms themselves. Cheers
Wow, that is a lot more believable than what they said in a video Ryan reacted to last week "American reacts to 101 Facts about Australia [part 2]" in which they said Pommy is a slang term for pomegranate which kinda rhymes with immigrant! 😂
Not quite. There never was a crate marked Property of Mother England. The truth is - like most Aussie and London slang - it is rhyming slang. ‘Pommie’ is short for ‘pomegranate’, which sorta rhymes with ‘immigrant’.
@@noelleggett5368 Well perhaps you should take a trip to the penal colony in Port Arthur in Tasmania where you may actually see with your own eyes what I am talking about. Have you actually been there?
Another version is PHOM, prisoner of his/her Majesty.
@@robynking-oq7kc Slang terms are almost never drawn from acronyms. (I say ‘almost’ only to protect myself, in case there might have been one. But in over 40 years of reading about etymology of popular slang in English, I’ve never heard or read of a single proven case. All the folk etymologies of slang derived from acronyms - posh, wop, wog, pom, etc. - have all been proven apocryphal or just plain wrong.)
I live near Devonport up the other end... love Tassie!! Moved here from the crazy mainland. Best move I ever made!
Didn't mention Wrest Point Casino is there - Australia's first casino built in 1973. People used to go to Tassie specifically to go to the casino, it was such a novelty to have one in the country. Then they built them on the mainland from the early 80's and that casino tourism ended for Tassie.
Some of the freshest produce in the world can be found in Tassie.
And most naturally produced, actually it's all gourmet quality!
Love that place. Water so clear and clean I can't wait to get back.
Ryan you nailed it. “Uncorrupted”. Holiday Ed there about 10 times now. Time capsule island. Magnificent.
The closest thing I experienced to Tasmania whilst I was in America was the San Juan islands of Washington state.
Try to see a video on the Gordon below Franklin River . Known as the cleanest air in the world, absolute pristine forest.
It’s a magnificent place
Tasmania is a great place for seafood. Great quantities of Atlantic salmon are farmed along it's northern coastline. Great dairy products, including some seriously good cheese. Did I mention apples? My best memory was buying a freshly caught and cooked rock lobster, and a loaf of local sourdough bread in Strahan on the south west coast. And along with a local dry white wine, Tasmanian butter, fresh salad vegetables from a road side farm stop, enjoyed a feast camped near Cradle Mountain further up the western side of Tasmania. And that's coming from a Canadian living on the mainland of Australia.
I think there is a worry about fish farming in Tasmania, too many in a spot where the water becomes contaminated by fish crap and this is harming the environment.
The tap water in Hobart (and probably all of Tasmania) is absolutely amazing in taste
yep, everywhere.
MONA is AMAZING for its art content and its architecture. The Dark MOFO festival is a must-do. (Sea) Scallop pies are absolutely delicious. Tasmania is to be adored.
Ryan, Tasmania is stunning beautiful, the waterfront Botanical gardens,Mona, the salmon ponds and Norh west to the tarkine are all amazing places. I hope you get to visit us one day.
Hell yes for Tassie! Where ive had the privilege of calling this beautiful island my home for a little over 35 years! We're so lucky to live here 😊
I'm from Sydney but lived in Hobart for many years from primary school to high school with frequent moves back to Sydney as my step father was in the navy so we moved quite a bit. It's a magic place with clean air and the water out of the tap is like bottled water in Sydney! I'd be living there now but it's too cold for me now that I'm older. It does have hot summers but they are short. They have the best pubs with "counter meals" that I've found anywhere and the best seafood because the waters are so clean. My cousin has an oyster farm in the south of the state. The USS Enterprise (nicknamed the "Big E") on a visit to Australia in 1979 was supposed to moor in Sydney but Sydney Harbour wasn't deep enough for it so they came to Hobart as the Derwent River had the depth it needed. A magical and pretty place and I hope to see it again in the not too distant future - around a 2 hour plane ride direct from Sydney to Hobart ❤
That isn't true about the USS Enterprise and Sydney Harbour. A search will find pics of it in the harbour during the 1964 visit. It didn't visit Sydney in 1979 due to restrictions in place on nuclear powered ships.
@@daveg2104 it's what I heard at the time, if incorrect, I stand corrected.
It was actually 1976 it arrived in Hobart.
@@glennscurr836 That would be why I didn't notice anything about a visit in 1979. Starting from Jan '79 it was at Puget Sound Naval Shipyard for for a 36-month refurbishment. That is still true about the issue with nuclear powered ships at that time though.
@@glennscurr836 It was actually at Puget Sound Dockyard for a 36 month refurbishment from Jan 1979. It's still true about the issues with nuclear powered ships at that time. (sorry if 2 comments show up, YT is being silly, or something).
I LIVE IN TAS ITS AMAZING ❤ and I was born there
My great great grandfather was sentenced to life in Hobart. He was sent out from England on one of the last of the convict ships in 1849 or close to that. Something happened on the voyage that he was involved in that caused him to be granted a provisional pardon, the provision being he never return to England. He married and stayed in Hobart for about six years before moving to New Zealand
I think a lot of convicts went to New Zealand, to both start afresh and when the gold rush was on in Dunedin in the early 1860s.
MONA is amazing. It is built underground in a former quarry. You descend through the various levels using a glass elevator or a spiral staircase which wraps around the elevator. It is well worth doing a reaction just on this museum. You won't be disappointed.
Not a quarry. It was part of a private estate, then became Moorilla winery owned by Claudio Alcorso in 1958, then purchased by David Walsh in 2001.
I don't believe filming is allowed in some areas now, it's meant to be an experience of the senses! 🤔 It still includes a winery!
Definitely was not a quarry. It was the home of Claudio Alcorso. There is still part of the shell of the original house there.
@@jenniferharrison8915 I've been there heaps of times - every chance I get - and never been stopped from filming or photographing. Spectacular architecture and brilliant art.
Tasmania {Tassie} is a gem, it has it all. The most southern part of Australia. Closer to Antarctica than any part of Oz. 2500 kilometres. So yes it gets cold.
It's warmer than Canberra, only the wind gets cold! 🧐
If you want cold, come to Liawenee!
@@jenniferharrison8915 Although Canberra is closer to the equator it is colder than Hobart because it is inland and away from the moderating (warming) influence of the sea and is at a higher elevation. Canberra actually has an almost identical climate to Christchurch in New Zealand. Hobart is also warmed by foehn effect from winds that flow down mount Wellington (air heats up as it sinks).
@optimusmaximus9646 Yes! And the lack of pollution makes the sun closer and warmer than you think!
@@jenniferharrison8915 Yes indeed. I've been told that the air down there is the most pure in the world.
Love Tassie and Hobart
Have done the Cascade tour
And
Port Arthur
Also a Jet Boat tour around Devils Kitchen
Salamanca markets
Hated MONA
The top of Mt Wellington is wonderful
The Tasmanian Symphony Orchestra is also amazing .
I prefer the old things and history to the modern
I love the cooler weather there too
Cheers from Hobart! It really is a beautiful city, I love calling it my home.
Another Tasmanian here, another fact is Hobart's harbour forms the second-deepest natural port in the world.
Shhhh
There is a convict built well outside Canberra. It was built a long time ago to support gold miners and the quality of the well is just incredible, a work of art. That kind of work just can't be found these days. You and your family MUST come to visit Australia, and I hope you might even stay for good. We'd love to have you and family here. And just as a fact, the museum of old and new art, MONA, is mostly underground. Port Arthur is amazing, especially when seen from a light aeroplane. It is very big, which you don't realise when visiting on the ground.
@@EvanHart-d1n And the whole Port Arthur setting is pristine and beautiful which is hard to equate with its brutal history!
I've been here in Hobart for 24 years. It's home. There's no better place in Australia. Hobart is a lot like Welligton, in New Zealand actually, but without as much strong wind as Wellington gets. I could not imagine living anywhere else but Hobart now.
@@janined5784 Yes it is very similar to Wellington, especially with the harbour and weatherboard houses, but Hobart is warmer and friendlier!
Ryan, now you are looking at Tasmania, you must check out a vid on the World Heritage listed and pristine, Franklin-Gordon River, situated to the very remote south west of the island. Gorgeous
Tasmania is undoubtedly the best state in Australia. I don’t live there but I would love to.
Hi Ryan. I live in the Huon Valley as mentioned in the video. Just an hour from Hobart.. just head south and a little west. 😂
The Huon Valley is gorgeous. I have friends who live in Cygnet and I am pea green with envy of their gorgeous property there. If I ever win lotto, that's where you'll find me in the blink of an eye!
Watching from Devonport Tasmania. Just experienced the new light installation for the first time it’s amazing addition to the city :)
It's amazing, isn't it?
Cheers from Tassie Ryan.
I’m rather biased cos I live in Melbourne and am a Melbournite but I have been to Tassie/Hobart MANY times, it is just beautiful and VERY MUCH worth visiting 😎👍🇦🇺
I'm a Tasmanian in training. I've been living here for nearly 20 years now. Best move I ever made.
I love Tassie...Have been there twice, and have the most wonderful memories of cruising up the timeless Gordon River, which was unlike any other spiritual experience I can remember...Just breathtaking....I will return some day....
Waves hello from Hobart !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
My home town, love it too!
On top of the number of Pubs, there are a plethora of venues licensed to serve/sell alcohol.
The small community I'm in has 2x Pubs with attached bottle shop , 1x standalone bottle shop (was a 3rd Pub until a kitchen fire), an RSL Club, a Bowls Club, a Yacht Club, multiple restaurants... Only a few less than the main township just up the road.
it even snowed on mount wellington recently. you can often see the snow from within the city.
As for the pubs, it would have been no different from towns on the US West coast at that time. A brewed drink would have been much safer than the water, unless you enjoyed cholera or typhoid.
@@MrChannel2010 Same in the UK, every town and castle had ale brewers because the water was toxic from waste!
That's not the reason there were, and are, so many pubs in Tasmania - and Australia in general! In the early days of the colony, many exiled English and Irish were drowning their sorrows in booze, because they were unbearably homesick for their Motherland, and had no hope of returning to their country and family left behind. My great great grandfather made a fortune as a publican in the 1850s - he ended up building pubs all over Queensland, that were always packed to the rafters with melancholy alcoholics. This is where Australia's drinking culture springs from - it's a dark, tragic history, of families torn apart from their convict sons and daughters, exiled to the hostile and alien land of Oz.
@@pollywaffledoodah3057 Not the reason, a small part of the social problem and not just Tasmania! How many could afford to drown they're sorrows? In Sydney Rum was used as the currency because there was not enough money, and the soldiers made a fortune controlling supply and demand! Cascade Brewery is famous for its mountain spring water and highest quality ingredients not for supplying an addictive product, but an essential product! 😏
Tasmania is a place of great natural beauty. 42 years ago Australia had a very significant environmental event there when many people from all walks of life protested about the Franklin River being damed. The people won! It's the type of thing now studied by historians, environmentalists and legal experts.
It also led to the only semi-illegal vote in Australia.
So many people added “NO DAMS” to their otherwise-perfect ballot papers (ANYTHING that MIGHT indicate who you are - however unlikely - automatically makes the vote informal & uncountable), the electoral commission gave permission to count them as formal. I’m not sure it made much difference to the final counts, but it was a sensation.
howyougoin mate???. to paddle down The Gordon River, a 250 million year old forest among the 3000 years old Huon Pine. is truly an amazing and magical moment. one your would never forget. The best whiskey in the world comes from Van Diemans land too. Stay safe cobber
I have been to Tasmania several times and I must say that I think it is probably the loveliest state of Australia.
Sydneysider here too, and yes, Tasmania is our “pure land” state. The air is fresh (in fact, the freshest air in the world), the produces use little chemical, the soil is rich, the sea has plenty of fishes, the scenery is heavenly.
Heading there tomorrow Ryan, thanks for the heads up! Looking forward to a little whiskey tasting!
As far as cities go, Hobart is one of the nicer ones I think. A bit under an hour from where I am in the Derwent Valley.
We're actively planning to retire to Tassie from Brisbane. Love the place and the heat is doing us in up here.
I might be following not far behind.....well, in 20 years lol!
My grandfather worked in the old jam factory at 3:43 when he was young. It’s a hotel now!
A big👍 from Hobart Tasmania 😀
Hobart is certainly one of my favourite cities in Australia.
Couple of thing's....Port Arthur...birth of gun control in Australia....and there is an awesome shot tower near brewery....where lead shot was drop hot but cooled in fall keeping its round shape!
I used to live in Taroona and have been to the shot tower near there, even went to the top and must say it was the most terrifying experience for me as I don't do well with heights!
You enter in the middle looking up the 200 steps up to the top, I trembled the whole way up and no way could I look out out at the view, or down to where the shot would have landed some 400 steps down!
Yeah, it was very memorable 🫣😲😂
“Sigh”how predictable I knew someone had the mention Port Arthur and gun control.
@@firebrand2619 seriously? ...history is history!
@@CecilyMiddleton yep! seriously.
My Dad was a German immigrant in the 1950s.He worked building the Trevalyn Damm in Tasmania .He paid his wayxto Australia but had to work for the opportunity of comjng here.
your a legend! i watch you while i work even though i live in aus
you seem like an awesome dude keep up the great work mate !
Tasmanian here, I've heard that Tasmania and Iceland would do extremely well in the event of a world catastrophe 😊. I love how you go and look up something right in front of us, it shows genuine interest 👌😃. Of course we have the same problems that most parts of the world are experiencing right now, but we are able to drive a relatively short distance to see something stunning to take our minds off the negatives 😊. The Port Arthur massacre of 1996 happened, which in turn changed our Country's gun laws forever. You asked how bad the people were that were sent to Port Arthur must have been, well, there is a plaque telling the story of a 9 year old boy being sent there for stealing, I think it was a coat to keep warm 😢, so freaking sad, so not all convicts were bad adults. You don't leave Port Arthur without feeling overwhelmed with sadness.
Hi Ryan, I started following and watching your content yesterday and I really like it! As an Aussie who lived a year in Hawaii when I was a kid here are some other differences between the US & AU that you may not know!
Australia vs. America
- Australia doesn’t have the mail box flags. You give outgoing mail to a post box, usually there is one or two in a suburb or give it to the post office.
- Australia’s “drug stores” (called pharmacies) for medications are separate stores and not part of supermarkets. Although you can buy off the shelf medicines at the supermarket.
- Australian primary and high schools usually don’t have sit down cafeterias. Lunch is not provided (like the lunch trays) but individual items can be purchased or ordered.
- Australia’s Burger King is called Hungry Jacks.
- Although Australia has a slightly warmer winter than the US in general Australian houses are not built well for winter and many are incredibly cold in winter time.
- Australian states & territories have their own flags like in the US
Hi from 'Majestical' Hobart to you too!🤣
Been there twice we love it
Ohhhh boy, I left my heart in Tasmania last year
Tasmanian here too. Most of my life lived in Hobart. That video really highlighted the most touristy aspects of Hobart and I love it. Mind you, I never recommend Salamanca to anyone. Too crowded and expensive
Moved to Hobart over 20 years ago from Sydney. Never regret it.
I live in Tassie. Thank God.
As a Tasmanian, I recommend cascade beer Ryan. Forget about VB and Fosters.
Cascade is trash Boags so much better
Australia does have a drinking problem given our past colonisers. Brits drink a lot too. Once upon a time the guards were paid in rum but that was mainly in Sydney. It's no wonder that a brewery was one of the earliest businesses.
Tassie has magnificent produce...a foodie paradise
heya ! love that you have such a profound interest in Australia ! keep it up and i hope you get to get down here some time ... Stew Blue mountains NSW
Hi from New Norfolk, Tasmania, about 30 minutes from Hobart 🇦🇺
Shout out to you too Ryan. I'm a Tasmanian from the other end of the state. Big Hobart v Launceston diss has been going on forever. (We don't admit it to them, but yes Hobart is beautiful, as are most parts of Tassie)
Thanks to the 1870's gold rush, Ballarat in Victoria had around 500 pubs at one point. It's down to about 50 now with a population of around 120000.