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  • K and A's road trip旅行者Big Adventure

    Port Arthur

    2023年11月9日〜12日, オーストラリア ⋅ ⛅ 18 °C

    A travelling day and another visit around the British Isles within Tasmania. Heading south we passed through Swansea and Pontypool. We could have taken a detour around Andover, Stonehenge and Rosedale. We travelled through Buckland and Runnymede before stopping at Sorrel to take on provisions.
    After that the run to port Arthur was completed via Penzance.
    The drive to Port Arthur once again through wonderful landscapes with the final part of the journey particularly beautiful.
    In the evening we walked from our campsite along the sea path to check the route to the historic site. Another beautiful walk through Stewart's Bay.
    We are looking forward to exploring a new area.    もっと詳しく

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    St Helens

    2023年11月8日, オーストラリア ⋅ ☁️ 21 °C

    Our last day in this part of the island before we move south saw us drive back towards the village of Pyengana.
    This time though we took the dirt roads up into the hills to have a look at the old mining area known as the Blue Tier. The day started cloudy and as we climbed up into the hills we were soon shrouded in a light mist with an occasional shower.
    We parked up in the day car park at the top of the valley and donned our wet weather gear.
    This area was extensively mined for tin back in the day and a quite large Chinese community grew up there. Long since abandoned the hills are being reclaimed by the rain forest.
    The landscape is quite extraordinary. There are blankets of cotton wool like lichen covering the ground interspersed with grassed areas. The grass is nibbled short by potoroos and wombats. We saw one or two potoroos on our walk and evidence of wombats too (cuboid poo).
    The day brightened up considerably and we returned to base via the local museum in St Helens to learn a little bit more about the tin dragon and the Chinese miners. We have enjoyed this part of the island, with the highlight being the walk through the Freycinet NP to Wineglass Bay. Tomorrow we move on to pastures new.    もっと詳しく

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    St Helens

    2023年11月7日, オーストラリア ⋅ ☁️ 19 °C

    After a big day yesterday we gave ourselves a much less vigorous start to the day. The sky was clear and the sun was shining.
    We sorted some domestic duties first, then left site at 11:15 to travel a short distance up the road to have a look at what the locals claim to be the tallest waterfall in Tasmania.
    The drive up the valley to the start of a short walk to the base of the falls was quite beautiful - passing from the green farmlands around Pyengana into a high sided valley with rainforest all around. As ever the State Park bush path was very well signposted, even the bit that said we were not to linger on a small stretch due to the possibility of a land slip. The water falls down the hill side in a series of connected cascades. They are called The St Columba Falls, named by the first inhabitants of the valley when discovered in the 19th century. The family hailed from Ireland - and the falls were named after their own homestead that still exists within the valley.
    Pyengana is the home of one of the areas great attractions, namely the Dairy with its cheese production facilities, and cafe. In between the falls and the dairy however lies The Pub in the Paddock, which is one of the oldest public houses in Tasmania if not the whole of Australia. We stopped by for a quick beer and cider. The pub is also famous for its celebrity pig which is very fond of a beer. We thought this may be a tall story, but sure enough as we were departing a group of people congregated around the pig enclosure and we watched said pig snort a bottle of beer in a oner - most impressive - only in Australia!!!
    The cheese factory make a range of cheeses and we purchased a tasting plate for lunch. The cows all self-milk by an automatic system which allows them to enter the milking parlour whenever they want after a 6 hour wait from the previous visit. We watched the cows queue for their turn then wander through automatic gates back to the pasture when the milking process was finished. All done via a neck collar and computer programming - this farm was the first to install the technology on the island.
    There was one more thing to see which was the Halls Falls, another glorious walk through the rain forest to the valley floor.
    A weir was built by tin miners to feed a water race which delivered water to the mines further down the valley. The water race no longer survives so the water flows to the Halls Falls below.
    As we drove along the gravel road to the car park above the falls a Kookaburra with pearlescent sides to its wings flew onto a tree beside us but didn't linger for long. We could hear the characteristic call of many Kookaburras as we walked through the rainforest but did not spot any others today.    もっと詳しく

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    St Helens/Wineglass Bay

    2023年11月6日, オーストラリア ⋅ ☁️ 22 °C

    We woke up to another fine sunny day, which was good as we had made plans to leave early and drive south to Freycinet National Park. We had been looking forward to seeing Wine Glass Bay and completing the circular walk via Mt Amos lookout, Wine Glass Beach and Hazard Bay which starts at the National Park car park near Coles Bay.
    Today is the Tasmanian spring Bank Holiday, " Recreation Day" so we had anticipated that the roads would be busy. We hardly saw a soul on the roads and arrived at 10:15 ready for our breakfast before the walk.
    The walk took us up the side of Mount Amos to a lookout over Wineglass Bay, named by a French sailor working for Napoleon B under orders to survey the coastline. There are many more French name references in the area, however MacLean Bay would not be one of them - this we passed just north of Bicheno.
    The lookout is reached by a steady incline and many stairs - Alan counted over 450- and the views at the lookout were worth the effort. Walkers are then given the opportunity to return to the car park or take the 1000 steps down onto Wine Glass Beach. The 1000 steps were spread over a walk of about 2km so it did not seem too arduous. Karen could not resist having a paddle in the clear water on the beach. Moving on we passed over the ithsmus to the other side of the headland, passing an internal lagoon before dropping once again to a beach. On this stretch an echidna popped out of the undergrowth in front of us and had a little rummage on the pathway. We stopped for a snack at the end of the beach before taking the long walk back upon a very undulating landscape through the bush and woods. We did not count all the steps up and down taken over the 15km walk but it must have been about 3000. We arrived back at the car park quite weary and headed off to the Marine Fishery where fish based fare was on offer.
    The food was tasty and plentiful - a bowlful of moules mariniere for Karen and fish and chips for Alan. Afterwards we drove back into Coles Bay to try the local Ice Cream. All in all a full and enjoyable day    もっと詳しく

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    St Helens/Bay of Fires

    2023年11月5日, オーストラリア ⋅ ☁️ 12 °C

    We awoke to glorious sunshine and warmer temperatures than we have been used to in Tasmania - it actually was shorts and T shorts weather. Great!! After breakfast we set off to drive along the Bay of Fires as far as the road allowed. We ended up in a place called The Gardens, which consisted of a few houses next to the sea. We walked along the coast partly along the white fine sandy beach and at times traversing rocky boulders. All very beautiful. We turned back and retraced our steps after 30 minutes or so, although could have walked a lot further. We then drove onto a local vineyard called Priory Ridge - about 3km outside of St Helens. We sat in the sunshine tasting 4 different wines made on site - 2 white and 2 reds. There were other groups there, mostly picnicking whilst drinking wine from the vineyard. We ate cheese and biscuits whilst drinking wine and chatting to the owners. Our favourite wine was the sauvignon blanc (quite different to the NZ Marlborough wines which Karen loves to drink). At 40 dollars a bottle much more expensive than wines we generally drink - but we bought some to take away.
    We then carried on until we reached gravel tracks which would take us through Mt William National Park eventually ending up at Eddystone Point lighthouse. As we drove we passed through temperate rainforest along about 50km of gravel track before reaching the lighthouse. Once there we walked along pathways through rocks and were greeted with the most amazing sight of red rocks and pools of seawater. Absolutely stunning!!
    We carried on driving along gravel tracks to Gladstone returning to base via a twisty road passing through the forested hill sides. At one point a very large white tailed eagle flew across our path into the trees, but we were not able to capture it on camera. We stopped off to have a quick look at the blue lake which gains its colour from the result of mine working in the area. Tin mining in particular.    もっと詳しく

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    St Helens

    2023年11月4日, オーストラリア ⋅ ☁️ 14 °C

    Saturday morning is market day in St Helens, so we ambled along in the morning to have a look at it and to investigate the crafty shops in the town. Some wonderful stuff in the patchwork shop - Annies Crafts. Karen resisted buying anything on this occasion.
    After that we returned to the site to pick up the car and drove along to Binalong Bay and onto Skeleton Point. The coast line here is part of the Bay of Fires, named as such in the 1770s by a sailor who noticed the original inhabitants' fires on shore as they passed along the bay. They have since been moved on, although everybody here apparently acknowledges their custodianship of the land and pays respect to the elders past and present .
    We completed a walk along the coast passing through the bush to Grant's Point and Dora's Head- orange lichen on the rocks give the landscape its current fiery theme.
    The boulders intersperse clear sandy stretches of beach which have a backdrop of the temperate rain forest. We enjoyed a thoroughly good day. We even saw an Echnida alive and well trying to cross the road in front of us at one point - it scurried off into the bush unharmed. We felt weary upon returning to the car, but had walked a total of 10 miles - so not really surprised. Back on site we moved up to the camp kitchen, ready to cook our evening meal. The kitchen was extremely busy with groups preparing meals and many outside at the wood- burning pizza oven. There was a large group of 40 plus people who had organised a pizza making competition. The pizzas produced looked pretty amazing with so many varieties - even saw some with marshmallows on top!! A judge was tasting each pizza, and results were announced at the end of the evening. A very noisy evening - but we managed to play one game of scrabble during the activities.    もっと詳しく

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    St Helens

    2023年11月3日, オーストラリア ⋅ ☁️ 15 °C

    Today was a travelling day as we moved from the north west coast over to the north east coast to the town of St Helens.
    It was a relatively short journey but we managed, so it seemed, to take in every part of the British Isles.
    Leaving Ulverstone we passed Devonport then Westbury before bypassing Launceston (sitting on the River Tamar) to Perth.
    Taking the Midland Highway we passed through Epping Forest and Cleveland prior to turning off onto the Esk Main, which follows the River Esk to Cornwall. At St Mary's we branched off towards Falmouth and passed through Beaumaris before we arrived at St Helens.
    All pitched up and ready to go at 3pm we wandered into the town to catch the tourist information office before it shut down for the day.
    The lady was very helpful, so we returned to base to plan the next few days. The campsite was filling up quickly when we returned. Monday is a public holiday in Tasmania, named Recreation Day, so obviously many people making the most of the long weekend.    もっと詳しく

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    Ulverstone

    2023年11月2日, オーストラリア ⋅ ☀️ 17 °C

    We resisted the temptation to return to Cradle Mountain, as we had a few domestic things to sort out such as food purchase, washing etc which we needed to do before our departure to St Helens tomorrow.
    We drove to the nearby town of Latrobe, stopping off at a very popular belgian chocolate making factory. We watched some of the pralines being assembled all by hand. It all looked so tasty that we bought a couple of items to sample later.
    We then visited a shop that we were told simply had to be seen. It is called Reliquaire and it sits on Latrobe main street. We have never seen anything like it, it is quite extraordinary, very hard to describe and was well worth a visit. It consisted of a series of rooms, each on a different theme - Alice's adventures in Wonderland, Harry Potter, out in space, dinosaurs - to name just a few. The shop sold the most unusual toys and games alongside up market food items and some household goods. It was absolutely packed with goodies. The Christmas section of the shop had just opened for the season, and was packed with ornaments, lights and Christmas figures. We didn't know where to look first!!
    After Latrobe we visited Coles supermarket for provisions in Devonport, then back to base before the next leg of our journey tomorrow.
    The people on this campsite have been very friendly. Katrina, the manager has gone above and beyond to assist us and tonight presented us with a leaving present - a bottle of Sauvignon made at a vinery very close to our next stop in St Helens. Of course we will have to try it pretty soon and if we like it we'll just have to visit the vineyard there. It's a tough life!!    もっと詳しく

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    Cradle Mountain

    2023年11月1日, オーストラリア ⋅ ☀️ 19 °C

    The forecast for today has been for clear skies all day, so we had put it aside for a trip to the local World Heritage Site which is the national park of Cradle Mountain. We arose reasonably early for us and departed in glorious sunshine with temperatures similar to a typical English spring day.
    The drive to the visitor centre, which is where everyone has to go to get into the park, was through the lush green countryside. As we ascended through forestry plantations and the occasional farm smallholding we arrived on a high plain with a thick moorland landscape. We could see the snow covered top of cradle mountain in the distance. We knew we were in for a good day.
    Kirsty had passed by here on one of her adventures a few years ago, as she started the 65k Overland Trail in the National Park which is done from north to south. We had heard about the beauty of this area from her, but could not believe how stunning it all was.
    We arrived at the visitor centre to be met by a wombat which was foraging in the carpark. Alan has always wanted to see a wild wombat in the flesh - so a good start to the day.
    Formalities completed at the visitor centre we boarded a courtesy bus along with other visitors which took us into the park. There were four men on the bus all packed up with haversacks for the 6 day walk south, but most were day visitors like ourselves.
    The short bus ride into the park was useful as the driver gave a commentary about the park, walks to do, stop off points etc. and reminded us that if we missed the last bus back it would take three hours from the pick up point back to our motor.
    We were advised that there would be a lot of wombats to see in the button grass around Ronny Creek, but we opted to go further into the park to complete a couple of walks directly under the mountain.
    The Dove Lake walk is a popular walk. It encircles the lake which lies under the peaks. It was formed by glacial activity a few million years ago along with others that we walked to.
    The mountain looked magnificent. There are not that many days of the year when there is no cloud cover so we chose our day well. The path around the lake was beautiful. We stopped for our picnic lunch at a small lake side beach, all we could hear was the sound of nature. After completing the circular walk we then doubled back on ourselves a little bit to do the walk to Ronny Creek via Lake Lilla, another upward climb through bush. There was an option to nip up to Wombat Pool half way along which we couldn't resist a look at. This involved another steep climb up shingle/ rubble paths and over 320 steps. At the pool we turned around to return to the Ronny Creek walk. Soon we were amongst the button grass plains and wombats were busy grazing as we passed by.
    On the bus back to our car we both said we enjoyed the day so much that we thought it would be great to come back again tomorrow. Definitely the highlight of our trip so far.
    We felt some envy for the lads doing the 6 day hike south. The countryside at the start of the walk is spectacular and Kirsty says that the views just get better and better as each day goes by.    もっと詳しく

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    Ulverstone

    2023年10月31日, オーストラリア ⋅ ☁️ 15 °C

    We are really enjoying the bush walks in the rain forest, and today we set off to the Leven Gorge where there were a couple of trails for us to do. The river Leven is the river that runs to the coast at Ulverstone. We drove inland again through stunning lush green countryside once more and parked up at the head of the trail above the gorge. Once again we trailed through glorious tree ferns to a lookout high above the gorge. The river was rushing along 200ft below. We then descended 697 steps to another lookout a little bit further down the cliff face. There then followed a pretty stiff climb back to the car where we enjoyed our lunch in the picnic area. After lunch we drove along the road another couple of kms to complete the canyon floor walk which took us down to the river level. Another stiff descent and climb, our legs are getting stronger each day.
    There was one further waterfall to have a look at, so we stopped in at Preston Falls on our return to base to take in the 200ft cascade.
    We are very much enjoying our evenings talking to the other campers in the camp kitchen, and we are getting lots of tips for things to see. Mona at Hobart is a favourite with the younger contingent as is the carved wall at Derwent Bridge where we will be later in our trip.
    This evening the kitchen was particularly busy with several groups cooking, eating and chatting. We lit the log fire to keep the chill off the room. The nightly hot water bottle keeps us cosy in bed, as the temperatures drop and the trailer becomes really quite chilly. Good job we are hardy souls!!
    We had a visit from a major Aussie icon in the evening    もっと詳しく

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