Queenstown

Most of western Tasmania is green, Queenstown is orange / red. The winding decent into Queenstown has a moonscape appearance which is mostly bare and dusty hills where once rainforest was - the clearest testimony anywhere to the scarification of the west coast's environment by mining.
The town retains a rough and ready pioneer feel.
We unfortunately were a day too late to be entertained at the Paragon Picture Theatre with a Mae West special - disappointing !!!
Not sure how many of our AFL players would be happy to play a game on the Queenstown footy oval with it bare surface .Read more