Hi from New Norfolk, near Hobart.

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Hi everyone
We are still loving Tasmania.
After 2 nights in Waratah, we drove to Zeehan for 2 nights. Zeehan has a very interesting museum on mining in the area. We did lots of exploring around the area, drove through an old train tunnel with so little clearance the mirrors of the car nearly scraped the sides, to an old silver mine, and did some 4WD tracks. We drove to the coast to Trial Bay and to Granite Harbour, over rough metal roads, both very rugged areas with little shelter for boats. (We are really enjoying our sahara landcruiser for this ).
Next we drove down to Strahan for 2 nights. We did a very good cruise on a lovely day on the Macquarie Harbour, going right out into the open sea through the narrow entrance, and then down the Gordon River.
We then headed east, over hilly windy roads, stopping in Queenstown, a copper mining town for a look around , then on to a lovely $5 campsite at Lake Burbury. Chris got to go out on the lake in a tinny with some friends we keep meeting along this part of our trip. They also enjoy exploring out of the way areas (they've done the Simpson desert and Cape York too), we keep meeting them on the 4WD tracks!
We then headed south east, not able to stay where planned as most sites full (including Hamilton, Linda), so headed on down to New Norfolk. We are spending 4 nights here (we have since found out it's a long weekend in Tasmania so that's why everything is full). The first night we spent in the paddock next door to the campsite (overflow area), but now we have a powered site. Our friends turned up yesterday (not prearranged!), so they are now in the overflow area! We have done some trips out of here, west to Strathgordon and the 2 dams in that area, the Mount Field National Park, and saw the Russell and Lady Barron Falls, we had a quick visit to the salmon farm before it closed, and yesterday we spent the day in Hobart at the Wooden Boat Festival, which was very good. We walked around in the drizzel, but there were over 400 boats in the water, and another 100 or so out on the dock area. We saw 2 kiwi boats, thought there would have been more! Lots of lovely wooden crafted dinghys and row boats.
We had a social time last night with Sue and Hardy (who have the tinny), and our neighbours here, so today we are having a quieter day, did washing, shopping etc and Chris checked the bearings etc in the van wheels.
Tomorrow we will move on south of Hobart, probably to Snug.
Cheers Lynne and Chris

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Photos

Derwent River
New Norfolk - this river is beside our campsite here, about 30 min north of Hobart.

social time last night
Chris with Jane and Ron, Sue and Hardy at our campsite at New Norfolk.

Wooden Boat Festival, Hobart
Over 400 boats in the water, 100 boats out of the water. It drizzeled most of the day.

steam outboard motor
Chris was fasinated with this!

Zeehan tunnel
Driving through the tunnel to the Spray silver mine

end of the tunnel
Chris let me out to get photo then reversed back in!

4WDing at silver mine
Allen, David, Rod, Den, etc you would have loved it here!

Crocoite
Found at Zeehan, this rock was in the Zeehan Museum.

Trial Harbour
At the coast from Zeehan.

Granville Harbour
You'd take you life in your hands getting in and out of here!

Hells Gate
Entrance to Macquarie Harbour, showing Entrance Islet Strahan lighthouse. We saw 3 lighthouses here.

coming back into the harbour
very narrow gap with a rip running, 2 lighthouses to line up.

Gordon River
It was lovely and calm with great reflections on the water.

Queenstown lookout
Mining town with lots of bare rock everywhere!

Queenstown
Looking down on the copper mining town.

Lake Burbury
Another super day.

Chris goes boating
Lake Burbury with Hardy.

winching the boat back up
It was easy to launch and retrieve the tinny using this winch system.

Lake Pedder
Near the Serpentine Dam

Gordon Dam
curved top to bottom as well as side to side. Chris climbed down lots of steps and walked across this dam.

Comments

[Linda and Den]

Great sights
Some amazing sights and experiences . I'm glad you got out to Hell's Gate with its awful tidal rip. Hope you enjoy the D'Entrecasteaux area. Love the photos. Thanks for email too. X

[Tony]

Hi
Good stuff guys. A nice read for a monday morning. Chris, bet you are glad you don't have your company, starting to get tough round here at the moment. Cheers Tony.

[zena]

What a great trip you are having
What a great trip you are having. We haven't seen half these places. We were very glad to hear you were no where near the fires. Tassie is one place we still havent been to. Snow is heading up to the claim in a few weeks. Has to wait till his arm is out of plaster. He had a ladder collapse on him when he was getting off a roof. Tania and Justin very much in love and preparing the house for tenants as they are going back to Canada for 10months. Love Zena

[Lckiwis]

Glad we are in Tasmania!
Think we are in the best place in oz at present, with the fires and floods in the rest of the country! Glad to hear Tania is happy, has she got a ring on her finger yet? Snow and Zena you would love it down here - plenty of places to fossic, and lots of traditional boats . Cheers lynne

[Penny Kidd]

Glad to know you are enjoying Tasmania and thank goodness you are not near Melbourne at the moment what with the heat and the fires. A real tragedy for those poor people. Spoke to Cherry and Mrs. Richardson (Michael's mother) died yesterday at age of 90 but was a release as she had no quality of life at the end. Having very sticky hot weather here with exceptionally high temperatures but have a little bit of rain in the last 24 hours thank goodness. Hope to see you when you are in NZ soon.