Blogs from Tasman Peninsula, Tasmania, Australia, Oceania
With the help of our new “Camps” book, we had found ourselves a lovely free spot at River & Rocks Campground. It was chockablock with other friendly campers and as natural as you can get – complete with stinky long drop toilet! Seriously, though, it had a great atmosphere and we got chatting to some lovely people. After we had our home-cooked gourmet pasta dinner, it rained through the night and we awoke to a just as wet morning. Ha, I knew those gumboots would come in handy for soggy campsites! After breakfast, we drove to Freycinet National Park and managed to catch a good break in the rain when did the hike up to the Wineglass Bay lookout. It was certainly a steep climb, that’s for sure, but totally worth it when we got a ... read more
Mill Creek, Fortescue Bay, Tasman Peninsula
Published: February 5th 2011Oceania » Australia » Tasmania » Tasman Peninsula4 January 2011 In need of some redneck bogan contact, we decided to camp out at Fortescue Bay. Unfortunately there were no sites big enough for us so we got lumped with the ferrals. Or maybe they just looked at us and decided that was where we belong... The bay itself was nice but the camp ground wasn't great & we were shocked (not to mention disgusted) about the rubbish people had left and all the broken glass. The tent looked like a dog's breakfast- not easy setting up on a small rocky slope! From here we took in the local sites the Tasman Arch & Blowhole and the Devils Kitchen. The coastline on the eastern side of the Tasman Peninsula is very rugged and the texture of the rocky cliffs is pretty extraordinary. Much of ... read more
Tasmania 10 Day Safari - Tasman Peninsula Hike
Published: February 16th 2010Oceania » Australia » Tasmania » Tasman PeninsulaSeventh Day An early start as we picked up others who were joining us for the last five days of the trip; there were a family from South Korea, a German woman and a guy from Austria. In addition we had a second tour guide - a younger fella by the name of Ben. You could say that the four-person dynamic we'd had with Gary was at an end. And we knew we'd been very fortunate. What would the rest of our trip be like? Remarkable Caves to Crescent Bay That morning we drove south-east of Hobart and onto the isolated Tasman Peninsula - site of infamous convict prison Port Arthur and the Tasman National Park. There, at a place called "Remarkable Cave" we stood over a blow-hole. Yes, a blow-hole of large proportions, basically a ... read more
TASMANIJA-severni del, polotoki in zalivi-dan 2
Published: December 5th 2009Oceania » Australia » Tasmania » Tasman PeninsulaTri turistke in tasmanski vragec Jutro smo zacele z voznjo po zalivih do marine in se odlocile, da zavijemo proti severu. Najprej na Tasman Peninsulo, proti Port Arthurju in Cresent Bay. Polotok je proti odprtemu morju nedostopen, obala je strma in skalnata, imenovana Pirates Bay. Visoke strme stene smo videle le v daljavi. Z manjso turisticno ladjo smo naredile krog po zalivu Cresent Bay in si ogledale ostanke jetnisnice, ki so jo Anglezi postavili leta 1830 in z jetniki in otroci, ki so jih tudi zapirali po 7. letu starosti, izdelovali razlicne izdelke, od cevljev do ladij. Pogruntali so tudi “humano” obliko dodatnih kazni kot je zapiranje v samice, ki so se do danes ohranile kljub pozarom. To je zgodovina Tasmanije. Sam zaliv je bi bil prav caroben, ce se ga ne bi drzala tako slaba ... read more
Our last days in Tasmania -- and then back to normal
Published: January 10th 2009Oceania » Australia » Tasmania » Tasman PeninsulaHi folks, jetzt ist er also gekommen, unser letzter Tag in Tasmanien. Nachdem es in den ersten 3 Wochen wirklich saukalt war (zur Abwechslung mal der kaelteste Sommer in den letzten 30 (?) Jahren; sonst schaffe ich es ja immer nur, an den Orten mit dem nassesten Sommer seit Anbeginn der Zeitrechnung oder so aehnlich zu sein), haben wir tatsaechlich noch ein paar richtig schoene Tage gehabt; der echte Sommer ist endlich da. Es war mit 28 Grad und Sonne sogar teilweise so warm, dass uns eine volle 1,5 l Flasche O-Saft im Auto explodiert ist! Was fuer eine Sauerei! Auf der Tasman Peninsula haben wir uns dann erst mal ein paar durch Wasser und Wind geschaffene Besonderheiten an den Kuesten-Felsstrukturen angesehen: so eine Art natuerliches Kopfsteinpflaster, ein Blow-Hole und den Tasman Arch, ein natuerliches Felstor. ... read more
Ay, Ay, Ay, Tasmania mia
Published: December 16th 2008Oceania » Australia » Tasmania » Tasman PeninsulaElle est plus belle, plus sauvage et plus indomptable qu'on l'avait reve. Et elle nous a accueilli paree de ses plus beaux atouts, drappee dans sa robe soleil de fleurs multicolores. Le 11 decembre nous sommes arrivees a Hobart, petite ville aux allures de bourgade moyenageuse (quoique de fin 19e), eparpillees sur les collines embrassant des rivieres, lacs et baies d'ocean. Les maisons ont des jardins incroyables, des fleurs qu'on connait mais qu'on reconnait pas, tellement elles sont enormes, d'autres que nous n'avons jamais vu et decouvrons emerveillees. Surtout les roses de toutes les couleurs. Le lendeman nous montons le Mt. Wellington, au sud de la ville. EPOUSTOUFLANT! Quelle vue! et quelles roches! Les Orgues, une merveilles. Et les Pinnacles, pareil! Pour notre visite dans la vallee de Huon, la belle Tasmanie a decide de se ... read more
FanTAStic
Published: December 15th 2008Oceania » Australia » Tasmania » Tasman Peninsula » Port ArthurAlas, our time in Tas has drawn to a close. I have provided some key phrases to best sum up our time here in the Apple Isle (if you look closely you may stumble across a common theme): “It’s raining cats and dogs", "Nice weather for ducks", "It’s bucketing down." Yes, the precipitation has been at times intense, but despite the generous proportion of water that has fallen from the heavens Carissa and I have enjoyed our time down under immensely. We have spent the last month in the township of Nubeena, a small coastal hamlet located on the south-western side of the Tasman Peninsula. Carissa has ‘held the fort’ at the local pharmacy in the owner's absence, while I have put my carpentry skills into practice at the Tasmanian Devil Conservation Park. The park is ... read more
Tasman Peninsula - Fin de semaine de trois jours du 9 au 11 Octobre
Published: October 16th 2008Oceania » Australia » Tasmania » Tasman PeninsulaFin de semaine de trois jours du 9-10-11 Octobre : C’est la premiere fin de semaine de trois jours que j’ai depuis que je suis arrivee !!! En fait, il y avait une journee feriee le jeudi pour le « Launceston Show » mais je devais travailler pour finir un mandat roche et de toute facon, je prefere bien mieux avoir le vendredi de conge et partir pour la fds. Je termine mon travail le jeudi en milieu d’apres midi et je profite du restant de l’apres-midi pour planifier un peu mon week-end. J’ai decide d’aller au Sud completement de la Tasmanie. Il y a « Port Arthur » (une ancienne prison) ainsi que «Tasman Island » et un gros Parc National ou je pourrai faire de la randonnee. Jeudi soir, j’ai un souper de filles ... read more
Tasman Peninsula- Convicts and devils
Published: January 9th 2008Oceania » Australia » Tasmania » Tasman PeninsulaThis morning we tried our hands at sea kayaking. The water was warm and the not too choppy. It was lots of fun and we managed quite well. No falling in the water or turning the boats over. The weather was pefect and the silence out on the bay a welcome change. We drove south to the Tasman Peninsula, over EAglehawl neck where we saw the famous blow hole and Tasm,an Staying in a wonderful colonial house right on the waterfront not far from Port Arthur. It was so cool. The house was originally a convict probationary house and workshop . Nearby is the Tasmanian Devil conservation facility and we spent an hour here this morning watching the devil's being fed. A cancer is decimating the wild stocks and unless a cure or at least a ... read more
Devils, Kangaroos and Convicts
Published: August 6th 2007Oceania » Australia » Tasmania » Tasman PeninsulaA Gorgeous Day in Convict Land We started our day by checking out of our hotel in Hobart. The plan was to drive to the Tasman Peninsula (Tasmania was found by a man named Tasman and thus there are a few places in town with his name attached) in the south east corner of the state. The Tasman Peninsula contains the remains of one of the largest of the original convict prisons constructed to house British criminals in Australia. Located at Port Arthur, Tasmania, there are ruins of 35 of the building left. Our goal for the day was to eventually end up here for a peek at one of Tasmania’s biggest tourist attractions. The roads in Tasmania are not very wide, so I had to really concentrate on sticking close to the center line in ... read more






































