HELP...your advice/experience please.

We spent 2 months there and missed a lot of places.

So your 4 weeks sounds like a reasonable amount of time.

sooo what would i do ?????
5 days to Melb via the Nullabour.... 2 weeks is a lot of time from Perth to Melb and you wont be able to go through the "middle" (west-east) as it will be to wet ..... and gunna be very hot out on the Nullabore
3 weeks in Tassie........
Melb, Adeilade n up to Alice and to Darwin to visit it in the WET SEASON, best time of the year to visit Darwin trust me....
Accross the top to Broome and down the coast back to Perth ...
But that is me, as you say "just do it" ...
Cheers
Joe

Having spent 4 weeks in Tassie with a camper trailer I would cut your return travel to Perth and give yourself another week in Tassie as I did over 4000kms. touring around and still didn't see all I wanted.It is a great place but Iwould reccomend going in Jan. or Feb.

Hi Andrew,
I would leave Darwin for another trip. Yes you could do as above but you wouldn't see much. We spent 3 yrs on the road and often only travelled 200-300 km a day.
I think your first plan is ok. As mentioned you can spend a long time in Tassie.
I guess you can be flexible and change as you go. If 2 weeks from Perth to Melb is too long coming over then stay an extra week in Tassie and take 1 week going home.
Most people rush and miss so much. I guess it depends on what interests you. We took 2 weeks across the nullabour and had a ball, that was with 2 kids aged 5 and 7. There is heaps to see if you look.
We spent 3 months in Tassie for time round then 11 weeks second time round and now live here.

Josh

Hi Andrew

Your last question - six weeks minimum.

Suggested time frame for your eight weeks - 10 days getting there and 6 days racing home would give you almost six weeks there.

We took two weeks to get to Melbourne so as to see a few places along the way and be sure of getting there in time. We booked seven weeks for a quick look around, which allowed for a few days with friends. As it was so expensive getting there, we wanted to see a good selection so six to seven weeks was a bare minimum. Lots more we had to pass by. What we saw is shared in My Blog dated 2006.

Motherhen

Book the boat now!

Hi Andrew,

Im with Motherhen. Its quite expensive to get to Tassie with a van so suggest that you spend as much of your available time as you can over there. There is a lot to see. Even if you have 6 weeks there you wont see all of it. Your kids are a good age for enjoying more active things like hiking climbing etc so they should have a ball.

Our blog on out Tassie trip in 1997 is here:
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The things that we saw then wont have changed much in the intervening years. Its a 2 part blog - at the bottom of it is a link to click onto the second part.

You could spend 6 weeks in SA and Victoria too but why rush. It will still be there for when you are able to return - but you dont have to add in the cost of a ferry. Make what you do really enjoyable and your children will want to come back.

One suggestion, although it can be quite hot in Tasmania in Jan/Feb the water can be quite cold, so if you have wet suits the kids would probably have more fun in the water.

Have a great trip.

Cheers,

Val

4 weeks at a min we can here in 2002 for three weeks back the next year for eight weeks and i'm still here. book the boat now as there is a waiting list now my partner had to go to mainland 0n the 8th this month and she had a ten day wait to get back. please remember just because it might be 100ks away it could take you 1 to 1.5 hour to do DO not rush just take your time in tassie and you will love it. the roads down here are corners corners and every now and again you will frind a straight, that is unless you travel down the middle.like other people what made me stay here that question will answer itself when you get off the boat. better go now as i have cray to cook and get the fresh fish we caught this morning ready for tea.

Get there as fast as you can Tassie is sooo much cooler at that time of the year, just get there and spend as much time as you can trveling around. we will be there from the 12 january to the 22nd.
Have fun.

If you're going to be driving around northern Tassie (especially around the Launceston area), just watch out for UHF CB Ch02 (a repeater not far from L'ton). There's a very entertaining character who uses this channel and is fun to listen to...hehehehe. He calls himself "The Whisperer."

He does use very colourful language, though.

Cheers.