Spring has sprung when we first visit the blooming tulips rural town in Wynyard but not yet in full bloom! Wished we could have stayed longer for the tulip festival but we need to get around Tasmania as much as possible and experience this laid-back state in Australia.

Parrot Tulips - photo was taken as we pass by the tourist & Travel Information Centre building in Wynyard Town, Tasmania holiday 2015. I can only show you two types of Parrot Tulips from the photo below. The White Parrot tulips were not yet in bloom when I took the picture.

TWO TYPES OF PARROT TULIPS:

1. TULIP ROCOCO - is cardinal-red with purple and green feathering colours. The original term was first introduced in 1884 "Couleur Cardinal" meant a scarlet-red and flushed plum.

2. WHITE PARROT or WHITE RUFFLED - white and green feathering colours.

I was able to grow the White-Green parrot tulips when we bought the bulbs from Tesselaar farm near Melbourne. Unfortunately, the bulbs did not come back the second year as someone had stolen the bulbs from our front yard garden patch a few years back except the common ones.

http://www.queentulip.com/2009/08/parrot-white-tulip.html

Cape Grim Natural Water Bottled Review

Cape Grim, the home of cleanest air and water in the world! Yes, you can tell when the water you are drinking is in its purest!

How pity when we travelled there, there was no sign up ahead on the road to Cape Grim that it is a guided tour, not independent drive. We only saw the signage half way drive that the road is private property unless you have a permit with guide trip.

Glad, you can buy this bottle from the Spirit of Tasmania II ferry when we are going to Tasmania coming from Port Melbourne. The Spirit of Tasmania I do not have them. Hopefully, they will sell them as well besides the effective organic ginger beer they have. One way of the other, the two ferries do not have the same local Tasmania products exactly, I found.