Exploring Old Hobart
It was a beautiful sunny day today with a temperature of 25C – perfect for walking around some of Hobart’s historic areas. Close to the CBD is the tiny suburb of Battery Point. I don’t think that any other Australian city has an historic area to equal Battery Point. It is a very elegant ‘suburb’ […]
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Bruny Island
Last evening, we had a wonderful catch up with our friends Ris and Steve when we joined them for at their house for dinner. They are a remarkable couple – each being very succesful in their own field. Steve is the most senior surgeon in Tasmania while Ris is Australia’s most prolific romance writer. We […]
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Hobart
We left Ratho Farm in Bothwell yesterday morning to travel to Hobart, the capital of Tasmania. It was a nice day but the weather forecast was for variable weather with perhaps some rain. We planned to vist Russell Falls in the Mount Field National Park on then way. We first took a back road to […]
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Bothwell – Part Two
Seeing that we are in Bothwell for two nights (and we don’t have a long distance to drive today) we took advantage of the time to sleep in and have a slow start. We didn’t leave Ratho Farm until after 1030 am. Our local exploration first took us to The Steppes about 20 minutes north […]
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Bothwell – Part One
Leaving Strahan yesterday, we drove through dense forest until we reached Queenstown. For 57 kilometres, the road was very curvy with hardly a straight section at all From Queenstown, the scenery changed dramatically. The (almost) bare hills are not quite the ‘moonscape’ that they once were, but they are still quite dramatic. The evidence of […]
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Macquarie Harbour
An early start for the day had us down at Strahan Wharf for a boat cruise around Macquarie Harbour and the Gordon River. Macquarie Harbour is a shallow glacier created fjord. It is much larger than Sydney Harbour and approximately 315 square kilometres in area with an average depth of 15 metres. In some places […]
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Queenstown and Strahan
We had a quick look at Zeehan before leaving for Queenstown this morning. Zeehan is a classic “mining boom” town. Down the main street it has a run of half a dozen buildings which show its past mining affluence. Sadly the former grandeur of the town has now been been diluted with new buildings and […]
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Mining, Forests and Tasmanian Rivers.
Today, we drove from Stanley, south to the mining town of Zeehan. Our day was rich with mining towns, forests and rivers in this remote part of Western Tasmania. We began in the morning by driving back along the picturesque north coast of Tasmania to Wynyard. We relocated from the ‘Fresh Air Capital of the […]
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Tasmania’s Not So Wild West Coast
When the wind is strong, the seas along Tasmania’s west coast are rough and tempestuous. However, for us, the weather has been idyllic with only gentle breezes and lots of sunshine. Yesterday, we travelled from Stanley to Arthutr River and return but first, we took some time to explore the little town of Stanley. It […]
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From the Mountains to. the Sea at Stanley
It was cool this morning at Cradle Mountain – about 8C. I had a hearty beakfast fiollowed by a short walk along the Enchanted Walk that winds through the forest and returns to to Cradle Mountain Lodge along Pencil Pine Creek. Unfortunately it had a number of steps along the way so it wasn’t suitable […]
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Our Drive to Cradle Mountain
It seems that a very short distance will expose you to completely different environments in Tasmania. Yesterday, we travelled a little over 120 kilometres to get from Devonport to Cradle Mountain and found ourselves in completey worlds Along the way, we passed through several little towns that have invented some feature, other, that will help […]
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Exploring Devonport and Surrounds
Devonport is the third largest city in Tasmania with its fortunes based on the fact that it is the port for the Spirit of Tasmania ferry from Melbourne. Consequently it’s known as “The Gateway to Tasmania”. The fertile district around the Devonport area is known as “Australia’s market garden”. It ihas mild summers and cool, […]
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