Blogs from New Norfolk, Tasmania, Australia, Oceania

As Monday 9th January dawned the rain cleared and we were treated to a lovely rainbow over the village. We rather reluctantly left the delights of Tarraleah and headed in the general direction of Hobart. We didn’t anticipate reaching there today as there were a few places en route that caught our attention although we still had to arrange overnight accommodation. We reached the small village of Westerway which gave direct access to the Mount Field National Park – an area we wanted to explore. We spotted a sign for accommodation which suggested there was a vacancy so we drove about a kilometre along a gravel track which led to a house and two chalets. We had rung ahead but only got an answer phone message. We followed the signs which invited us to enter the ... read more