Camping, photography and other ramblings
Leaving Tassie on the overnight boat, we had a very smooth sail which was nice. Unfortunately, however, our porthole cabin was next to some outside ladder or boating equipment which rattled during the night and this combined with the very Read More …
For those of you planning your own trip to Tassie, and for our own benefit for when we hopefully come back here, here’s our “Tassie on a page” synopsis. Spanning the 7th of March through to the 16th of May Read More …
Before we get into this blog we have some good news! We got a call from Sue, the Gladstone local wildlife carer, and following our report, she managed to find, catch and treat the wombat we saw with mange. That Read More …
Leaving the Great Lake and Central Plateau, we headed east, back down to the coast to a free camp at Cosy Corner South, in the Bay of Fires, located in the North East of Tassie. We hit the east coast Read More …
We are so incredibly fortunate to have both the circumstances and confidence to take advantage of this opportunity to explore Tassie. But, for me, the most rewarding parts of this trip aren’t the amazing places we’ve been to, or the Read More …
If you’ve read our Cradle Mountain post you’ll recall that on our way to Cradle Mountain, we met up with a lifelong family friend of mine, Dale, who happened to be staying in Tassie at his shack on the Great Read More …
Leaving Buckland and our free-camp at the Ye Olde Buckland Inn on Saturday, 11th of April, we meandered like a turtle with a sprained ankle, up the east coast of Tasmania to Freycinet Peninsula, where we’re camped for the next Read More …
Today is Easter Monday the 6th of April and we’re off to explore Bruny Island, which is south of Hobart. From our camp at Phil’s Place, north of Hobart, we drove down to Kettering to catch the ferry over to Read More …
Before moving on to Hobart we checked out our camping options as we were going to be there over the Easter long weekend and the local caravan parks are expensive at $60 to $70 per night. We were thinking of Read More …
Once is chance, twice is coincidence, thrice is a pattern but four times is confirmation… Everywhere we’ve been and stayed, including Strahan, being our fourth location in Tasmania, has been busy with other travellers. This is great news for Tourism Read More …
Leaving Cradle Mountain, it was a slow, but lovely drive down the steeply descending and windy roads, back to the North coast of Tasmania. Our new destination, The Nut, in Stanley. Now, for those unfamiliar with The Nut, as we Read More …
So here we are, Tasmania. We finally made it after a failed attempt a in 2020, just as COVID was breaking out. But, who the f#ck is Kate and Gustav you ask, and why is the blog post titled with Read More …
Actually, we’ve already paid the ferry man in full, otherwise he wouldn’t have let us on the boat. But, I get ahead of myself. Despite the looming deadline to catch the ferry to Tasmania on Saturday the 7th of March, Read More …
“a time or set of circumstances that makes it possible to do or achieve something” That’s the Oxford Dictionary definition of “opportunity” and is the reason for this trip, which is gunna be a long one (fingers-crossed and touching wood). Read More …
This trip was down to Albany due to an invite to Shari’s, Jules’ cousin, 50th birthday suprise party. Philthy, Dougo, Phyllis or Phil, as he’s commonly known, aka Shari’s hubby, had arranged a repeat surprise birthday for her 50th, backing Read More …