While we were in Ross we hatched the idea of getting a fridge magnet for each male member of our small group. Ross was easy, and Bernie quite straight forward (although the spelling was different.) We had plans to go to George Town on the Tamar Valley later, so George was covered. That left only Ray - and try as we might, we could not find a town in Tassie called Ray. Eventually we decided the closest we could get was Railton, the town of topiary, we had seen pre...

The next morning the smoke had cleared, which was good because we wanted to go to Stanley, but were a bit worried as it is further west and closer to the fires. Checked out the Wynyard market, and picked up some very elegant steak knives for a song. Then we pushed on to Stanley and arrived just before ten, beating the Tourist Info lady by a few minutes. Picked up a map to find our way around town, as we had missed the town centre last time. This time, knowing th...

Set off for Burnie early in the morning, as they had a farmers market on this Saturday. The first thing we noticed was the air was hazy with smoke, and we were told there were fires in the north-west. Apparently they had been started by lightning strikes, and the whole of Tassie was very dry this summer, so they kindled immediately. Took a wrong turn looking for the market (the signage was dreadful), and found ourselves half way up a mountain on a narrow winding...

Well, today is our last day at the resort, so we thought we would take it slowly and relax. We would have to leave early the next morning, so had to have some plans. We had thought of checking out Burnie and Stanley while we were here, but thought they were too far to go and come back in a day, so decided we would head off tomorrow to see Burnie, spend the night, then go on to Stanley the next day. So today we packed our bags and packed the van. We tried to do s...

Today we decided to cover Devonport properly. Of course we had spent a night there at the start, and had a brief look at the town when having dinner with Faye and John, but we hadn't done all the touristy things. So first stop was the Maritime Museum where we found out about the history of Devonport and how it had become the main port for Tasmania. There had been many submerged obstacles in the river inlet, leading to several shipwrecks, until the whole thing wa...