It happened when we came back from dinner. It was about 9:00 pm.
We opened the front door and put the house key inside and went out again to pick up baggage from the car.
When we tried to open the front door, it was locked. We had locked out ourselves.
It was an isolated house on the top of a hill. With gorgeous stars shining up above, wallabies and kangaroos jumping around the ground, we stood speechless for a while.
My travel partner had left her smartphone inside the house and mine was running out of power. So I hastily called the number which was written near the key box.
A lady answered. I desperately explained what had happened.
“No worries, I’ll send someone up there in 15 minutes”
Thank goodness! It is really an angel in the hell, as a Japanese proverb goes.
While waiting for the help, we looked up the star-lit sky, the Milky Way and found that constellations look somehow opposite in their shapes from Japan.
Exactly 30 minutes later we saw a car’s two headlights coming up the slope. We waved and ran to the car.
This is one of the most unforgettable experiences that we had in our trip to Tasmania. Arigato very much!