Tassie Trip 2015 Day 17 Cradle Mountain - Tazmazia - Promised Land (Lower Crackpot) - Sheffield - Devenport. Today was our last day in Tassie sadly. We awoke to what would be another cracking day - expected to get into the 20's even! Heatwave stuff! We slowly packed up today as we only had 135ks to travel to Devenport and the boat back to the mainland. It's funny how Tasmanians refer to us a mainlanders or 'you're from the mainland! Serious complex I think. ...

Tassie Trip Day 16 Cradle Mountain It poured with rain last night. Real heavy fat rain too. I didn't have much hope for the day when we woke and looked outside to more grey and miserable skies.......but luckily we were totally wrong!! After breakfast we wanted to get the Disco into the NP as they close the gates on a certain number of cars are in and it's usually by 9am. We got through ok and parked at Ronney Creek. Dan and I to start the Overland track up t...

Tassie Trip 2015 Day 15 Strachan - Cradle Mountain National Park We woke to some patchy blue skies this morning and we thought that the cracking day we had yesterday would continue today. Nah not so lucky. We decamped at 8.30 to head firstly North past the sand dunes we had so much fun in yesterday and then East and inland. There was no way we were heading back up that road we travelled into Strachan! This exit was much less windy and hairpin turns and so we...

Tassie Trip 2015 Day 14 Strachan The sunshine came back with some gusto today! We awoke to beautiful blue skies and it continued all day. Today we explored the beautiful hamlet of Strachan in the just as beautiful sunshine - and we got to drive on the beach too! We headed out of Strachan to drive out to the Macquarie Heads Reserve at the tip of this peninsula. You can camp out here and it's a big fishing village plus you can drive on the beach and around the...

Tassie Trip 2015 Day 13 Hobart - New Norfolk - Mt Field National Park (Russell Falls) - Tarraleah - The Wall (Derwent Bridge) - Lake St Clair National Park - Franklin/Gordon River NP - Nelson Falls - Franklin River - Queenstown - Strachan Today's theme was water.....it was everywhere . It fell from the sky (lots), it rushed passed us at a rate of knots and we drank lots of it. Today was pretty hectic actually.....wet and hectic. Added to that our temperature v...