Tassie Trip 2015 Day 8 White Beach - Remarkable Cave - Sorell - Battery Point -Hobart - Cascade Brewery - Hobart We left the beach today and headed to the 'big smoke' to spend the next 5 nights. Before we left though, we took a quick 15 min drive through the town of Carnarvon and out to the point where the raging sea has carved a lengthy hole through the dolomite rock and up to a small beach to form a cave. Seems the surfers both local and from abroad have al...

Tassie Trip 2015 Day 7 12 January 2015 White Beach - Eaglehawk Neck - Tasman Island Cruises - Port Arthur - White Beach We crossed 2 seas today in our travels ! This morning we got to see all the coastline we drove down yesterday from the ocean side. We breakfasted and got away the 10 mins up the road to the tour company meeting point and joined a bus for a further 15 mins up to Eaglehawk Neck to our jump off point for 3 hours of high speed 750hp action down...

Tassie Trip Day 6 Bicheno - Swansea - Spikey Bridge - Kate's Berry Farm - Tribianna - Pirate Bay - Tasman Arch - Devils Kitchen - Port Arthur - White Beach. I've decided that Tasmanian Roads should be renamed Dead Possum Highway with just a number afterwards. There is that much possum roadkill it's not funny! We packed up and left the beach at just after 8.30 and wound our way down the coast. Our first stop was the town of Swansea which had a beautiful lookou...

Tassie Trip 2015 Day 5 Bicheno The sun returned today much to our delight. We awoke slowly today to cloudy skies - we had a bit of a sleep in on order to chill a bit being on the go so much and with some later nights recently. The sunset after 9pm really does mean you pack heaps into the daylight hours. Today was all about exploring the surfside town of Bicheno. There are 2 surf shops - that's should put it I to perspective in this small east coast hamlet! Of...

Tassie Trip 2015 Day 4 Bicheno - Freycinet National Park - Bicheno Well typical to Tassie weather what beautifully ended the night before didn't continue till the next day. We awoke to overcast skies - but no rain thankfully. Our destination today was Freycinet National Park and an 11km hike around Winglass Bay. We got up and going early as we were warned that the car park fills pretty quickly as it's such a popular spot and it was pretty full at 9.30 when w...