After five weeks of back to back adventure, it was time to sit down and look at what I had left on the bucket list, and importantly, how much time did we have left. Remember, Tasmania is small. I figured out we had about 600klms to do in 15 days, which would give us aContinue reading “The East Coast Vibe”
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The Tasman Peninsula
Another squeeze through Hobart’s CBD and we were on our way to perhaps the last of the big tourist destinations on our list – Port Arthur, the most famous and infamous penal settlement in Australia. Famous for so much preservation of an early period of Australian history, infamous for the 1996 massacre of 35 visitorsContinue reading “The Tasman Peninsula”
Bruny Island
In our grand plan was the idea of taking our vans across to Bruny Island and spend one or two nights there exploring. The ‘spend’ part of getting our rigs across on the ferry ($250 all up) really encouraged us to come with another idea. Could we do Bruny Island in a day? It’s onlyContinue reading “Bruny Island”
MONA
Museum of Old & New Art They say a picture’s worth a thousand words. So, I’ll keep this brief. MONA was stunning. ‘Eclectic’ doesn’t do the museum justice. It ranges from impressionable to improbable, stark to complex. The collection has been curated from across the world. No corner of good taste has been left unchallenged.Continue reading “MONA”
Hobart
Hobart was baked into the intinerary well in advance due to a service on Ken’s ute. It was our back-to-civilization interlude for a few days. We headed to The Lea Campground only a few k’s outside the city. Unbeknowns was the steep and unrelenting climb to the top of a mountain to get there. DraggingContinue reading “Hobart”
The Huon Valley Part 2
The nice thing about having a base, is it’s so much easier to explore. The long weekend warriors dribbled out of the campground on Monday and ‘normal transmission’ was resumed. We had two days left and after a brief conflab over breakfast, decided to explore Hastings Caves and ‘take the waters’ at the adjacent hotContinue reading “The Huon Valley Part 2”
The Huon Valley Part 1
Today was one of our few big runs in Tasmania, Brady’s Lake to Huonville. While 174klm is not exactly daunting, we still had to climb down from the mountains and then navigate Hobart for the first time. Now that also wouldn’t appear to be a particularly onerous task, but for the fact that there isContinue reading “The Huon Valley Part 1”
Down the Guts
We both had a bit of housekeeping to do after our stint ‘off-grid’. I needed to get some stitches out and we both needed to empty our bulging laundry baskets. Deloraine ticked both boxes, so we swung a right at Kimberley and headed south. Wasn’t hard to kill a couple of hours here – aContinue reading “Down the Guts”
Cradle Mountain
Well, I didn’t have to go the wrong way for 150klms to have my own ‘Oh-oh’ moment, but despite assurances from my Free guide to Campsites 2024 edition, here I was. Tasmanian Hydro had installed some locked boom gates across the road that led to Lake Gairdner. That would have been OK except there wasContinue reading “Cradle Mountain”
Tassie’s South-West Corner
As captivating as this scene is, there was much more to see in this corner of Tasmania. We had toyed with the idea of doing the run from Queenstown to Derwent Bridge, but Ken assured me that “there be dragons”, if we attempted to tow along this stretch of road. So, we thought a dayContinue reading “Tassie’s South-West Corner”