Awoke to find a light frost on the ground. It still wasn’t cold though. We did a final check of the vehicle before heading to the airport and heading home. Our flight took off on time at 12:15pm We had a good flight back and then had a 1hr 45min wait for our bus to...

Awoke to another mild morning, we have now given up on the off chance that it is cold in Tasmania. We have decided it is a ploy to keep the Queenslanders away!! We headed up to Richmond. Richmond is a lovely historic town that was one of the first settlements of the...

We got up and had a lovely shower in the 5-star bathroom that are Heimat Chalets Ensuite Sites. We then headed toward Hobart and pulled into the Treasure Island Caravan Park at Berridale. The lady at the Bus Information centre in Hobart had told us that this was the...

Got up this morning and wandered over to the beach. Snug is a pretty little town on the banks of North West Bay. The caravan park is very nice. They are adding extra self-contained cabins and are in the process of totally upgrading the camp kitchen and have recently...

Woke up to 2ºc this morning. We discovered how deeply Mick slept as, when he got out of bed, he found our dozen eggs!! There were none broken, not even the box was squashed. We have been putting our eggs tucked up under the doona to stop them from sliding around and...

Slept in this morning. (Probably due to a big day yesterday??) We had breakfast and headed into Sorell to look for a Woolworths, did the shopping and headed off for the 68km drive to Port Arthur. We drove through more SHEEP!!! Arrived at Port Arthur at about 11:00am...

Waking up at Bicheno we had a good hearty omelette before heading down to Coles Bay and the Freycinet Peninsula to climb to the Wineglass Bay lookout.  This is a fairly steep walk up the side of the mountain! It was reasonably easy as Parks and Wildlife have cut many...

Lesson 1: Bush camping in Tasmania, while cheap, is STUPID!!! Not having a powered site meant that we could not use our fan heater. Consequently, the van was cold when we went to bed and we could not warm up the van in the morning. We headed out of Scottsdale early...

WOW!!!! Finally our first cold morning. We woke to frost on the ground and ice on the windscreen. –2ºc at 7:30am. We proved our heater was working well, the temp inside the van at 7:30am was 10ºc. We let the motor warm up well and let the demister defrost the...

Awoke early and it was cold!! 6ºc at 6:00am, 7ºc at 7:00am.  No wind or rain though. We had our showers and headed off for Forth at about 7:30am.  We followed the Letterbox Trail to Wilmot. Many of the residents here have been very creative in their letterboxes....

Left Wynyard at 8:00am and drove to Lacrum Dairy at Mella via Smithton. The Lacrum dairy advertised Cheese tasting and dairy, unfortunately, they are not open from May until November  :(. Back the 5kms to Smithton and we looked around. Smithton is a big town with a...

Another big sleep in and we were on the road at 9:00am.  Heading into Zeehan we stopped at the Heritage Mining Museum. This was a very good display of the history of Zeehan and its surrounds in its mining heyday. Back on the road and the naviguessor got it wrong!! We...

Day 3:   Strahan (Gordon River cruise) to Zeehan We had a big sleep-in today (6:00pm!!) Had breakfast and showers at the amenities block and “hit the road”. We drove into the township of Strahan at about 8:00 in time to work out where to park the van and...

Had a good night’s sleep for the first night. The van bed was nice and cosy and not cold at all.  I woke up at some stage through the night because the wind was very strong and was rocking the van. Mick slept soundly so I figured we must have been more stable...

Day 1: Saturday July 2nd  Dicky Beach to Hobart and New Norfolk. Left Dicky Beach at 7:00am with Graham our chauffeur from Quick Silver limousines. Driving to Brisbane, we encountered VERY heavy fog. Planes were all delayed in and out of Brisbane airport. Our...