Tasmania the Summer State!

Since our last post we have moved on from Melbourne but only after catching up with an old Brisbane friend Jacqui & her son Lachlan. We left our campsite very early with what seemed plenty of time to catch the ship to Tassie but got caught in EXTREMELY slow traffic snarls all the way to the pier. It was very frustrating being stopped in traffic within sight of our ship, even with our intimidating bull-bar not being able to move the Melbourne traffic out of our way. Lucky for us the departure of our ship was delayed due to an incoming cruise ship blocking their way, so all turned out OK.

Tasmania Travels
It’s been a week since we travelled on the Spirit of Tasmania from Melbourne to Devonport and we have had a great time exploring the Apple Isle. We left Devonport as soon as we got off the ship and travelled as far south as we could to catch up with friends who are also travelling in Tas. at the moment. We didn’t catch up with them for a few days, so spent some time south of Hobart and ended up camping at a beautiful spot on Garden Island Creek. We had a great fire (our first since leaving, as every other state is in total fire ban), and we enjoyed some lovely meals cooked on the open flame.

We then travelled to Bruny Island to meet Brian and Regina from the Gold Coast. We have spent the last week just camping by the beach in beautiful summer weather. Walking, 4WDing and eating have been our main occupations. At present we are staying at Adventure Bay on Bruny Island and have seen a plethora of native (and some feral) animals. During a short dusk walk it became difficult NOT to step on a critter, with roos, ducks, rabbits, water birds, echidnas, possums, brown and many (apparently rare) white wallabies all out for a feed and to get under foot.

Since I was preparing to post this blog yesterday we have had a very exciting day exploring Bruny Island by jet boat. So sorry for the very long blog. We travelled south down the island from Adventure Bay via the Tasman Sea and actually crossed into the Southern Ocean. We saw some amazing sea caves, sea cliffs, a breathing rock and an abundance of sea-life including friendly dolphins and seals. A must do trip for anyone in southern Tasmania. Attached are some photos and hopefully Doug will get some video edited for posting soon.













1. Spirit of Tasmania, 2. Garden Island Creek, 3. Doug making campfire, 4. Doug  awaiting meal on campfire, 5. Bruny Is. 6. Bruny Is. Lighthouse, 7. Echidna, 8. White Wallaby, 9. Seacliffs, 10. Jet Boat, 11. Seals in Southern Ocean

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After not writing anything for weeks, here we are getting something together everyday. We spent a couple of days in Warrnambool by the beach and started our trek along the Great Ocean Road, by visiting a cheese factory…yum!yum! And now our second BIG photo, the Big Milkshake. Of course we had both cheese and a chocolate milkshake at this stop.

Our travels along the Great Ocean Road were very windy and we have a couple of windswept glamour photos (NOT!). We stopped for one night and then continued on through Appollo Bay, Lorne and then to Queenscliffe. We thought we would take the ferry across the bay to Sorrento, but it would have cost $115, so we thought better of that and drove to Geelong and then up to Melbourne.

We will spend a couple of days in Melbourne, once again some car servicing and trying to get the GPS working. We thought going through Melbourne at 7pm would not be so bad…but we did the usual trick of getting stuck on toll roads for which we didn’t have an e-tag. Anyway a massive fight, blood pressure overload and finally a kebab to calm us we made our way to a caravan park outside of town….we don’t really know where.

Our next travels should be on the ferry to Tasmania…will keep you all posted.




1. Map of travels, 2. The Big Milkshake, 3. Great Ocean Road around the Twelve Apostles, 4. Sue on Great Ocean Road, 5. Beach stop of GOR, 6. Doug at beach