Happy New Year! Headed off the next morning down the Midlands Highway towards Hobart. On the way was a small town called Ross. George had read a brochure advertising a bakery in Ross which had the 'Best scallop pies in Tassie,' so we had to stop and have a look. Ross is a gorgeous town, with one wide expansive road bordered by large leafy trees on either side, creating an elegant and graceful streetscape. The buildings were all old and historic, but refined and...

Well, it's New Year's Eve tonight, so we thought we would have to head to a big town which would have some celebrations. We wanted to be in Hobart by Friday night so we could go to the Salamanca markets on Saturday. So we headed to Launceston, from whence we would continue south the following day. On the way to Launceston there were several attractions on the Cradle to Coast Tasting Trail. Our first stop was the chocolate factory, where we had a lovely breakfast...

We needn't have worried about booking in to a caravan park. There was plenty of room, and a nice large park just across from the port where we found a lady camped out - in a tent. Free camping is definitely not a problem here. However we had to be in a caravan park as Faye needed the heater at night, so had to have a powered site. There would be plenty of time for free camping later. We decide to book a second night, and spend the day romping around the area in ...

Well, it had been over twelve months since our great adventure, circumnavigating this vast land of ours on Highway One. We had settled back to the mundane life, and our great adventure was becoming an ever more hazy memory. Until we discovered a fact that promised to open to us the path to greater exploits - The Spirit of Tasmania is part of Highway One, and leads to a heretofore unchartered area of this great land (by us, anyway.) Our mission was incomplete unt...

The Last Leg Heading south from Port Augusta towards Adelaide, we stopped at a small town called Port Germein. This had also entered the annals of Youssef family tradition on our previous trip. It is a very small town with two or three streets, a caravan park, a pub, a general store, and a very long jetty. On our last trip, in January, it was crabbing season. If you go to the end of the jetty, drop in a crab basket with a fish head in it, and wait ten minutes, ...