{"id":6429,"date":"2009-12-31T21:31:13","date_gmt":"2009-12-31T13:31:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/day.lat\/lon\/?p=6429"},"modified":"2026-09-10T15:25:29","modified_gmt":"2026-09-10T07:25:29","slug":"tasmanian-devils","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/day.lat\/lon\/2009\/12\/31\/tasmanian-devils\/","title":{"rendered":"Tasmanian Devils & Yacht Racers"},"content":{"rendered":"
\"Tasmanian
Tasmanian Devil Conservation Park, Tasman Peninsula, Tasmania<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Throughout our Overland Track hike, we kept an eye out, hoping to spot a genuine Tasmanian Devil. Although we did stumble across a few instances of frantic scurrying behind fallen tree trunks, we never confirmed any sightings. Our next best option was to visit a Tasmanian Devil Conservation Park, where efforts were underway to save Tasmanian Devils from the contagious Devil Facial Tumour Disease (DFTD), which had made them endangered. They are nocturnal carnivores that feed on dead and dying animal carcasses that they come across.<\/p>\n

\"Tasmanian
Tasmanian Devil Conservation Park, Tasman Peninsula, Tasmania<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
\"Tasmanian
Tasmanian Devil Conservation Park, Tasman Peninsula, Tasmania<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
\"Feeding
Feeding time at the Tasmanian Devil Conservation Park, Tasman Peninsula, Tasmania<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
\"Tasmanian
Tasmanian Devil Conservation Park, Tasman Peninsula, Tasmania<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Afterwards we headed back into Hobart, with a pit stop at the Waterfall Bluff Lookout to enjoy the view out over the Tasman Sea.<\/p>\n

\"Waterfall
Waterfall Bluff Lookout, Tasman Peninsula, Tasmania<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
\"Waterfall
Waterfall Bluff Lookout, Tasman Peninsula, Tasmania<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

We spent the rest of the day poking around Hobart, a small city with a population of only about 50,000. It is the southernmost capital city in Australia, farthest from the Equator, but for some reason the temperature was hanging around 38℃ (100℉)<\/p>\n

\"Hobart,
Hobart, Tasmania<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Being New Year’s Eve, we were able to drop by the harbour and witness numerous Sydney to Hobart Yacht Race contenders cross the finish line at the end of their 628 nautical mile journeys from Sydney.<\/p>\n

\"Sydney
Sydney to Hobart Yacht Race arrivals in Hobart, Tasmania<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Throughout our Overland Track hike, we kept an eye out, hoping to spot a genuine Tasmanian Devil. Although we did stumble across a few instances of frantic scurrying behind fallen tree trunks, we never confirmed any sightings. Our next best option was to visit a Tasmanian Devil Conservation Park, where efforts were underway to save… Continue reading Tasmanian Devils & Yacht Racers<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[2,86],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6429","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-australia","category-tasmania","without-featured-image"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p3sHuW-1FH","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/day.lat\/lon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6429","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/day.lat\/lon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/day.lat\/lon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/day.lat\/lon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/day.lat\/lon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6429"}],"version-history":[{"count":26,"href":"https:\/\/day.lat\/lon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6429\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7168,"href":"https:\/\/day.lat\/lon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6429\/revisions\/7168"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/day.lat\/lon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6429"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/day.lat\/lon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6429"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/day.lat\/lon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6429"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}