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From Strahan we started our adventure inland, up through the southwestern mountains and toward the small mining enclave of Queenstown. The famous West Coast Wilderness Railway makes its way from Strahan to Queenstown daily and we were lucky enough to be in Queenstown when the train was departing downhill through the rainforests for Strahan. It’s [...]
The wind didn’t quite want to leave us alone as we left Stony Point and headed south to the kite-surfing and surfing hotspot of Marrawah. Marrawah isn’t much, a collection of shacks and a general store that doubles as a petrol station, where Greg and Carol refueled and we started our route along the great [...]
From Cradle Mountain the four of us headed back to the north coast of Tasmania, spending a night next to the beautiful Hellyer River in Hellyer Gorge Conservation Park (S41°16.399’ E145°36.922’) on the way down from the mountains. Even though we were basically camped in a clearing on the side of the A10 highway, the [...]
Planet View: S41°34.734’ E145°56.098’ Street View: S41°34.734’ E145°56.098’ From King Island we flew back to Melbourne for one more night with the Kennares and then hopped on to the Spirit of Tasmania for our journey across Bass Strait. Although we left an hour late and were on the boat for more than nine hours, I [...]
Planet View: S39.939224° E143.860473° Street View: S39.939224° E143.860473° King Island is located in Bass Strait above the northwestern tip of the island of Tasmania, we visited some of Lisa’s family friends, the Jordans, for a few days before making our way south to Tasmania. The island subsists on its famous King Island Beef and King [...]