Planning 2months in Tassy saw all the well know tourist sights 3yrs ago. Looking for out of the way sights, drives, unusual things. Really find Tasmania to be a facinating place.
vanTas said
10:52 PM Jun 10, 2023
MONA has had a re-work. New exhibits.
Mariner30 said
08:01 AM Jun 11, 2023
When are you coming to Tassie?
It IS a fascinating place!
I would put your ' wants, needs and hobbies ' and interests ' into Dr Google or facebook pages and see what pops up,
Like this example...you 'may' wanna see waterfalls all over the State...type that in and up will come waterfall pages and groups.
Old mining or logging towns etc etc...same same
There is heaps to see and do all over the joint, both off the bitumen or off it.
Bring a fishing rod or three.
Warren-Pat_01 said
08:39 AM Jun 11, 2023
We discovered Sheffield on our last trip in April - the town of murals on the buildings. They were really great.
We deliberately didn't go to the "tourist" places, did different things. We did go to the top of Mt Wellington where the temperature was 4 degrees with 110kph winds.
As birdwatchers, we found most of the endemic birds & that took us into out of the way places. However these sometimes took us on to very narrow roads that were owned by some maniac drivers - by the way they drove! We were thankful that we stopped for lunch one afternoon when two Ford Rangers went flying through - we found later that this road was a short cut to another off the beaten track place!
We discovered Bruny Island - the boat trip to the end of it into the Great Southern Ocean was excellent - as was lunch after of blue-eyed trevalla. What a hidden secret that was.
Whenarewethere said
09:52 AM Jun 11, 2023
I have been there 5 times. My longest mileage trip was over 3000km back in early 1980s with a hired car with a school mate over two weeks.
Have you walked over the back country of Ben Lomond NP, there is a carpark on the way up to Jacobs Ladder where you can then walk across the top. At a minimum drive up Jacobs Ladder (there is a NP campground on the road up). Lavender farm in the area if you get timing right, almost as good as in France.
Get an Aurora Australia app to be informed of Southern Lights. Back in 1992 we had to manually check every night, shot on Fujifilm transparency, Aurora Australis from Mt Anne, hand held on that old stuff called film (back in the 1800s the southern lights were seen 12° to the equator which today if happened would destroy pretty much all electrical systems), something to think about, about just how vulnerable we are relying on electrical systems.
Jacobs Ladder
Cape Pillar, also did it 1992 before the commercial freeway was put in, we were so privileged to have this opportunity, simply due to fortunate timing, forever grateful, it was one of the best walking tracks we ever did, now destroyed by tourism freeway tracks. Did it again (the free section) in 2019 from the road (if interested PM me a message).
Walked the peninsula twice.
Russel Falls, walked the plateau in 1992. Just as well I had a female with me to keep warm over the night in one of the emergency huts in a total whiteout, a freezing place in these environments in the wrong weather.
In 2019 took 45 minutes to take a photo of Russel Falls without tourists. In 1992 over 2 hours without another person to be seen.
Possum3 said
11:57 AM Jun 11, 2023
Great photo's.
Whenarewethere said
03:31 PM Jun 11, 2023
vanTas wrote:
MONA has had a re-work. New exhibits.
Do they still have this display?
Maybe biometric identity will look familiar... if lucky enough... then on the other hand!
-- Edited by Whenarewethere on Sunday 11th of June 2023 04:48:23 PM
Planning 2months in Tassy saw all the well know tourist sights 3yrs ago. Looking for out of the way sights, drives, unusual things. Really find Tasmania to be a facinating place.
MONA has had a re-work. New exhibits.
It IS a fascinating place!
I would put your ' wants, needs and hobbies ' and interests ' into Dr Google or facebook pages and see what pops up,
Like this example...you 'may' wanna see waterfalls all over the State...type that in and up will come waterfall pages and groups.
Old mining or logging towns etc etc...same same
There is heaps to see and do all over the joint, both off the bitumen or off it.
Bring a fishing rod or three.
We deliberately didn't go to the "tourist" places, did different things. We did go to the top of Mt Wellington where the temperature was 4 degrees with 110kph winds.
As birdwatchers, we found most of the endemic birds & that took us into out of the way places. However these sometimes took us on to very narrow roads that were owned by some maniac drivers - by the way they drove! We were thankful that we stopped for lunch one afternoon when two Ford Rangers went flying through - we found later that this road was a short cut to another off the beaten track place!
We discovered Bruny Island - the boat trip to the end of it into the Great Southern Ocean was excellent - as was lunch after of blue-eyed trevalla. What a hidden secret that was.
I have been there 5 times. My longest mileage trip was over 3000km back in early 1980s with a hired car with a school mate over two weeks.
Have you walked over the back country of Ben Lomond NP, there is a carpark on the way up to Jacobs Ladder where you can then walk across the top. At a minimum drive up Jacobs Ladder (there is a NP campground on the road up). Lavender farm in the area if you get timing right, almost as good as in France.
Get an Aurora Australia app to be informed of Southern Lights. Back in 1992 we had to manually check every night, shot on Fujifilm transparency, Aurora Australis from Mt Anne, hand held on that old stuff called film (back in the 1800s the southern lights were seen 12° to the equator which today if happened would destroy pretty much all electrical systems), something to think about, about just how vulnerable we are relying on electrical systems.
Jacobs Ladder
Cape Pillar, also did it 1992 before the commercial freeway was put in, we were so privileged to have this opportunity, simply due to fortunate timing, forever grateful, it was one of the best walking tracks we ever did, now destroyed by tourism freeway tracks. Did it again (the free section) in 2019 from the road (if interested PM me a message).
Walked the peninsula twice.
Russel Falls, walked the plateau in 1992. Just as well I had a female with me to keep warm over the night in one of the emergency huts in a total whiteout, a freezing place in these environments in the wrong weather.
In 2019 took 45 minutes to take a photo of Russel Falls without tourists. In 1992 over 2 hours without another person to be seen.
Do they still have this display?
Maybe biometric identity will look familiar... if lucky enough... then on the other hand!
-- Edited by Whenarewethere on Sunday 11th of June 2023 04:48:23 PM
Russell falls a quick snapshot
Going to Tassy sept17 to nov17. Hopefully warming up by then.
Isn't that the windy time of year.
Yup.
Sept is probably the windest time of the year on the coast,
Can blow for days on end locally.