Day 8: Scottsdale to Bicheno
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...
Day 7: Deloraine to Launceston and the Tamar Valley to Scottsdale
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...
Day 6: July 7th Turners Beach –Forth- Wilmot- Railton – Sheffield – La Trobe – Deloraine.
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....
Day 5: July 6th – Wynyard to Smithton and back to Turners Beach.
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...
Day 4 – July 5th – Zeehan to Cradle Mountain and Wynyard.
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 – July 4th Strahan to Zeehan
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...
Day 2: July 3rd Heimat Chalet to Strahan.
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...
Tasmania 2005 -Day 1: Saturday July 2nd Dicky Beach to Hobart and New Norfolk.
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...
Some of our Longer Trips.
While I have included a number of short trips in this blog, I have also documented a few of our longer trips. These trips have day by day posts. This "index page" serves to make it easier to navigate to these longer diaries.
