2023 Tasmania in May

• June 3, 2023

  Part 8 – Time to head home

  Part 8 – Time to head home… The day started with a sunrise – one of the very few that we have had for the tour of Tassie! I even captured it with a pic! We left Ulverstone and headed east and found our way toYork Town – the site of the first Tasmanian settlement,…

• June 1, 2023

  Part 7 – the West Coast

  Part 7 – the West Coast Waking up in Strahan the sun was out! After all the rain it looked like it would be good for a while – until we were hooking up the camper, then the dump happened….again! Up through Zeehan (great coffee!) and then into a little village called Corinna on the…

• May 28, 2023

  Part 6 – Leaving Hobart

  Part 6 – Leaving Hobart We added another day to Hobart to get to MONA (Museum of Old and New Art). Free to Tasmanians, tourists pay and its only open 4 days a week. MONA is located at the northern end of Hobart and is dug into a sandstone hill and has 3 levels below…

• May 25, 2023

  Part 5 Hobart – at the of the road….

   Part 5 Hobart – at the end of the road… With a few days in Hobart and the weather still ….disappointing… we spent some time checking out attractions, and Jo took the opportunity to catch up with her uncle and cousins. All were good, and when I asked Jo’s cousins if/should Tasmania have a AFL…

• May 23, 2023

  Part 4 Swansea to Hobart

  Part 4 Swansea to Hobart (long post and lots of pic’s) Like everywhere else in Tassie the weather was having a cold snap…even the Avan Caravan Club people staying at the same park (all 4 of them) said it was cold for here in Tassie. We left Swansea and followed the coastline south checking out…

• May 19, 2023

  Part 3

  Part 3 The wedding didn’t happen in the park as expected, so we missed seeing the bride, the groom and their families, all who flew in to Tassie for mid week wedding!. We spent a couple of nights in St Helens – at night staying away from the wind and rain, by day having a…

• May 16, 2023

  Tassie Part 2!

  Night 2 in the camper this time in the caravan park at Warragul, another cold one outside but comfortable again inside. The morning was foggy again, must be a Victorian thing…. Making the coffee so the bride didn’t need to get up too early, I spotted a bloke from the cabin over the road doing…

• May 11, 2023

  Off to Tassie! Part 1

  We woke up one morning and looked at the booking calendar for the hire vans… With not much happening in May we booked the ferry to Tassie first and worked out where to after that! We decided to take a camper on the boat as trying to book a caravan in for both ways was…