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Published: March 2nd 2013
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Coasted up one side of the Tamar River on the North East coast, crossed the “Batman” bridge and carried on up the other side to GeorgeTown, the third oldest town in Tasmania. Surprisingly the main street was quite modern but it has plenty of old buildings dotted around the side streets.
Checked out the lighthouse at the very top and then carried on our way towards the East Coast exploring the small towns along the way, passing through a mountain pass, rolling hills and ended up at a goat cheese farm for a delicious tasting of their fare. That is our second cheese stop already and had to buy pass a third as we definitely have enough in the fridge already!
The East Coast is just beautiful and we have stopped at many beaches today. St Helens had some amazing rocks on the beach with red lichen on them and we can see why the area is called the Bay of Fire. Another beach there had huge sand dunes where we had fun walking on untouched white sand and leaving our footprints everywhere!
We are camped tonight by the beach once more. Tasmania certainly has plenty of superb
free camping spots so far and we have been very impressed. Can’t believe that a week has gone by already and so glad that we are here for 6 weeks as there is so much more to see.
Well today is the first day when we have woken up to light rain in all the 7 months on the road! This did not deter us from moving on to visit the Blow hole at Bicheno and enjoy a coffee at a cafe overlooking the beach to watch the huge waves crashing on to the beach. We are now settled for the day further down the coast in Freycinet National Park where it is now bucketing down. However, this is the time for me to get serious about this keyboard practice. Just have to find the earpieces so that Pete doesn’t end up throwing me out of the van!
We visited the prison ruins at Port Arthur yesterday and were very impressed with the whole layout organised for tourists with a trip on a boat and guided talk included in the entry fee. It was very sad however to also view the garden of remembrance for the 1996 Port
Arthur massacre when 35 people lost their lives when a mad gunman opened fire. The recent bushfires around this area very evident to see with many sections just reduced to a mass of rubble with no trace of the original houses and so glad we were not here to witness the destruction first hand
We have just spent 2 wonderful days with good friends in Hobart who we have not seen for 37 years and we had a great time reminiscing about our times spent travelling through Africa together. Hobart is a lovely city, very hilly so a great place to keep fit. The view from the top of Mt Wellington would have to be one of the most spectacular views that I have seen to date and having a totally sunny cloudless sky certainly helped. The views of Hobart Harbour and the Derwent River were simply amazing.
We have now moved on north westward and have joined up for the next few days with our good friends from NZ who have just picked up a motorhome to travel around Tasmania also. It is great to catch up with them and show them our new permanent lifestyle and
how much we are enjoying it.
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Dawn and Howard
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Glad you are having such a great time .Tassie sounds amazing will have to get over there some day.