Thursday 7th February 2019 - We leave Strahan in the pouring rain and drive through the Tasmanian wilderness of dense forest heading for our next destination of Huonville and on the way we: We drive through Queenstown and sigh in disbelief at the sight before us; the mining town is surrounded by a barren landscape resembling the moon. A landscape stripped of its trees, poisoned by sulphur fumes from the copper smelters, leaving a land and its rivers dead where n...

Monday 4th February 2019 - Today we're heading for Strahan and this is what we did on the way: Stopped at Waratah to take a look at the Waratah Falls, that plunges down in to a gully below & is uniquely located in the centre of town that was home to the richest tin mine in the Southern hemisphere. Cradle Mountain, Lake St Clair National Park where we took the steep & winding circuit trail that wound its way beside Dove River on to Dove Lake, making our ...

Saturday 2nd to Sunday 3rd February 2019 It's an early start as we drive around to Port Melbourne to catch the Spirit of Tasmania ferry to Davenport. It's a long day as the crossing takes around 10 hours. We arrive safely at Davenport, disembark as the sun goes down and drive on to the port city of Burnie where we will spend the next few days looking around. During our stay in Burnie we do the following: Visit Fernglade reserve and walk along the bank of Emu...

Wednesday 30th to Friday 1st February 2019After a long drive we arrive in Melbourne and spend the next few days preparing for our trip over to Tasmania. We reorganise everything and pack, as we are only going taking the UTE and putting the caravan into storage.

Tuesday 29th January 2019 We now leave Eden saying good-bye to the Kangaroos who have visited us every day during our stay and head for Melbourne. We drive over the border into Victoria and head for Cann River where we intend to stop for the night. We set up camp just outside of town within the Cann River rainforest located between the Lind and Alfred National Parks.