Cycling Tasmania Day Five
We are off to spend the morning at Port Arthur. This is done entirely in the pouring rain which is too bad really. Port Arthur penal station was established in 1830 as a timber-getting camp, producing...
Cycling Tasmania Day Four
On the bikes right from the get go. Right out the door after yet another great breakfast. It's a short cycle to begin with, ending up at Kate's Berry Farm and an early morning ice-cream. No losing any...
Cycling Tasmania Day Three
After an excellent breakkie we load into the van and drive part way to Freycinet National Park. We cycle about 30 km today and then are "there". Lunch, then gear up for a hike. I'm sure this is to give...
Cycling Tasmania Day Two
Ah breakfast! Cereals, fresh fruit, bacon, sausages, eggs, fried tomatoes, mushrooms, toast, and jams, and of course COFFEE! What a great start to the second day. It turns out that the cellars of the inn...
Cycling Tasmania Day One
It is the start of something new for us, a cycling tour. We have to be at our meeting point in Launceston for 9:00 am which means an early departure from the Stables. This proves to be not a problem and...
A return visit…
Everyone we run into keeps telling us that we have to visit the Gorge in Launceston. So off we go. Besides we need to update the blog, do laundry and pick up some groceries for supper because I went and...
The Stanley Nut
Just to prove we are still able to "do mornings" we were up at 6:30 and gone by 8. We could have been gone by 7 but where is the holiday and civilized in that? We are currently in a village 12 km west...
Narawntapu National Park and Pademelons
Our very gracious and helpful hostess at Hawthorn Villa brought us a hefty pile of brochures and guides and then suggested we would enjoy a trip about an hour north of here to the Park with the...
Launceston & Low Head
Launceston is the second largest city in Tasmania and that is where we went today. We needed to rent the car for an extra day and then also decided we might as well book the other two time periods as...
The Great Western Tiers
After a very restful and rather long sleep (almost 12 hours) we ventured off down the highway (day two on the left side of the road is less nervy than day one) on our way to see some caves. In the end we...
Tasmania at last
This trip has been in the planning for quite some time and it is now interesting to finally be here. Odd that this started with an accidental happening across the Discover Tasmania website. Intriguing...