Blogs from Queenstown, Tasmania, Australia, Oceania

Day 303 - Queenstown After an amazing amount of rain throughout the night, we wake up to a very dim, grey, misty looking morning. If the locals are right then it’s going to stay like this for the rest of the day but if they’re wrong, well who knows when the sun will return but we’re keeping our fingers crossed that it’s by early afternoon at the latest! We’re booked onto a Gordon River cruise later today, despite us not doing many tours this is just one of those little treats we’ve been told we really shouldn’t miss. Plus of course it’s not somewhere we can access under our own steam, it involves a boat! That gave us a free morning, time enough to uncover more of Queenstown’s personality. The obvious place for us to start ... read more

Today we woke up to rain - yey! We took the tent down and drove to Strahan. Whilst i was getting ready, using the free showers again, Chris went and got some coffee’s and we had breakfast in the car! As the rain didn’t stop we left for Queenstown, 45 mins up the road. The roads around this area as very windy, in most places you can’t go faster than 35/40 km/h. It was a shame about the weather as you couldn’t see the scenery around, you could hardly see more than ½ mile in front of you. Queenstown in a mining town, the copper mines are still running. We were hoping to do the underground mine tour but found out it was $88 each, bit pricey! This is also where the picturesque train journey ends ... read more