Wednesday, Nov 17, 2004 at 12:58
Thanks for your itinerary Andrew - sorry I didn't respond sooner, but it's taken me until now to sort ours out! Problem was I couldn't fit everything in I wanted to see and had to extend our dates. Now have 3 full weeks and will be doing an anticlockwise circumnavigation as follows:
Arrive
Devonport 3pm Dec 27 (Spirit 111 from
Sydney). Since the sunset isn't until 8.50pm there is plenty of driving time, so the 1 1/2hr trip down to
Mole Creek area seemed feasible to me, so we'll go directly there. Then onto Cradle Valley, then back up via Hellyer
Gorge to the NW coastline and look around
Cape Grim,
Green Point, Marrawah etc and continue to hug the west coast down through
Arthur River, Temma and part-way to
Sandy Cape. Punt across the Pieman to
Corinna, then explore Granille Harbour -
Trial Harbour (
Climes Track), out through to Zeeman and Montezumma Falls, back into
Strahan - where we'll
beach camp for a couple of days somewhere up
Ocean Beach (Henty Backwater area?) while we do the
Heritage Cruise of
Gordon River/
Sarah Island and the next day the ABT Railway, then onto
Queenstown (getting the key from
ranger to do the McCall track - will
camp out there), then back into
Queenstown next day to drop off key and drive onto
Lake St Clair area (full of bus crowds there so probably
bush camp near
Lake King William), then drive onto Mt Field NP and
camp there, then drive through
Hobart (quick look at Mt
Wellington, have been there before) and through to
Bruny Island for 2 days. Then following our
Bruny Island trek note that goes back to
Hobart via
Huonville and the Tahune Forest Reserve (and Airwalk), possible take a quick drive to see
Southport area too, then start the final leg up the East Coast with camps at Freycinet NP,
Bay of Fires and Mt William NP, last night
camping at Bakers Point (near Port Sorrell) in time for the early morning departure from
Devonport on the ferry to
Melbourne, where we'll start our return trip to
Perth via the
Vic High Country and
camping right along the
Murray River.
ExplorOz Cruiser and a red GQ Patrol (both with ExplorOz wheel covers). Make sure you say hi if you see us.
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Follow Up By: Member - Andrew (Bris) - Wednesday, Nov 17, 2004 at 20:33
Wednesday, Nov 17, 2004 at 20:33
We've now managed to squeeze another couple of days in. We changed our sailing days forward by two days. Want to have a bit more time on the west coast - thought we'd
camp somewhere around the
Arthur River area. I also wanted to have a look at
Woolnorth,
Cape Grim. We've booked a half day tour.
We're not making any plans to drive any further than we have to on the first day in Tassie in case either of us gets seasick and needs recovery time.
When we originally planned this trip we were hoping to have an absolutely minimal itinerary and just go when and where we felt like, but there seems to be so much we want to pack in now that it's starting to look like it might be a bit of a rush.
I'm starting to look forward to the week we want to spend in Victoria relaxing on the way
home.
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