A Travel Blog
Every second day of this roadtrip part of our holiday is a driving day, and today’s, from Stanley to Strahan, was one of the longest. However, even a long drive in Tasmania is usually not that long, not like driving in central Australia, for example, as we did in July. So, we realised we had time … Read more
… are the words that characterised our day. Let’s start with windy and winding First plan for the day was to tackle the Nut (an old volcanic plug), so we walked up our street to the beginning of the walk and decided to stick with our plan of walking up and chair-lifting down (to save … Read more
After my recent praise of the weather, today dawned grey and a bit drizzly. Well, we thought, we can’t be greedy, and it is a driving day. In fact, as it was a driving day, we thought we’d just write one post for our two nights in Stanley, but then we decided that two shorter … Read more
Before we talk about today’s adventures, we did want to mention an important topic for all road-trippers, road kill! We’ve seen rather a lot here – mostly smaller kill than the kangaroos and occasional wombat or fox we have around our way. Ian observed to us that this amount of road kill is new in Tasmania. … Read more
Shh, don’t tell Ian, but I was apprehensive about coming to Tasmania in the spring. Indeed, I’m always apprehensive about travelling anywhere in spring; it can be so changeable. So, with much of our Tasmanian trip to be focused on the outdoors, I worried that cold, windy weather would spoil it, because, let’s face it, … Read more