Our last week in Tasmania was spent traveling through the Bay of Fires and then over the mountains to Launceston. We spent a relaxed couple of warm days surfing and rock climbing at Cosy Corner North campground in the Bay of Fires Conservation area. Our new friends, Karin and John, who we had met at Lagoons during Oscars birthday, turned up as well, so that was a bonus. The beach was of extraordinarily white sand and the rocks were that wonderful meld of orang...

From Freycinet, we travelled North towards St Helen's. We picked a free camp on the basis that we could have a fire and that there was a beach. It proved to be a wise choice because it was at Lagoons that we met John and Karin Cunningham and their children Grace and William. They were from WA and had been on the road for four months. Tom and John hit it off right away, sharing tales of surfing derring- do and discovering that they were both carpenters. I lik...

Wineglass Bay, Freycinet National Park. We drove overnight to get to Freycinet- very aware that time was slipping away and that we had only 10 days to see the East coast, Launceston and the Tamar valley. Oscars birthday was on the 30th of March and we needed to find a quiet spot to celebrate for a couple of days. The lack of time regardless of how long one had planned for the trip seemed to be an ongoing theme from all the other travellers we spoke with. Fou...

The bird show at the Devil park.

Port Arthur, the site of the first Penal colony and silent witness to the deprivations visited upon convicts unfortunate enough to be sent there. It's famous for its ghost sightings- I think it should be equally renowned for squeezing every last cent out of the unfortunate tourist. We visited the town after walking the Shipsterns Bluff track with the kids earlier in the morning. We were pretty tired and footsore and personally, I wasn't really up for wandering...