Today we decided to move on up the east coast. We had all seen Port Arthur on our previous trip and had no desire to go there again. It is a sad and desolate place. We didn't know where we would stop for the night - John had been making calls to caravan parks in the various towns along the coast, but they were all full. This was the first time we had encountered this problem.

We headed to the most southern town called Triabunna. This was a quaint little town with a small harbor full of various colourful crafts. Right next to the harbor was an empty piece of land for free-camping, as in so many other towns, so we wouldn't be caught out. However Faye needed a caravan park to have electricity for the heater at night.

The other thing we found in town was a Christmas shop. A great huge place over two storeys. Faye was in her element. And George found not one, but two Opp shops - he also was in his element. After a morning coffee in a nice café, we moved on.

As we drove Faye tried the caravan park in Swansea again, and all of a sudden they did have a vacancy - in fact two powered sites next to each other overlooking the beach. We remembered Swansea as one of our favourite places on our previous trip, so I was glad we would get to spend some time here.

The caravan park was right on the beach, and sloped down towards the water on two or three levels. It was a bit steep and hard to drive, but the views were magnificent. It was a five minute walk to town, so George and I walked along the beach, getting our feet wet. It was warm, but very windy. Just could not work ourselves up for a swim.

In town there were all the requisite cafés, craft shops, Opp shops etc that seem quintessential in every Tassie town. We also met a man in the front garden of a magnificent old house on the main road. Faye started talking to him, as she does, and we soon got his life story. He had been a solicitor and moved out here to retire, ran the pub for a while, and seemed he had owned half the buildings in town over the years.

We also found a beautiful restaurant that had an open balcony overlooking the sea. Will have to come back here I think.

Swansea lies on Oyster Bay, the bay formed by the curve of the Freycinet Peninsula. This is another "must see" in Tassie, especially the other side of the peninsula facing the sea which had a perfectly circular bay edged by a beach of fine white sand, called Wineglass Bay.

There were two ways to get there - we had to drive about an hour to Coles Beach on the Freycinet Peninsula. From there you could either take a cruise, or walk across the ridge of the peninsula to the other side - a walk of two to three hours. We decided to book in for the cruise.

This would be an all day cruise, so we had to have a booking for the next night so we could leave the caravan and camper. Miraculously, there was room for a second night. One powered site, and one unpowered. We were happy to move to that as power is not much of an issue for us.