Made the short trip from Penguin to Sheffield via a scenic coastal route through Ulverston. After I had cooked eggs, bacon & tomato for us on a barbeque supplied for the travellers. First time in ages that I had those ingredients in the van, just leaving the farm must have had something to do with it.
We met up with Billeee and Jules as planned and spent the afternoon talking about our recent experiences. We plan to do the murals walk in the morning and take advantage of the $1 showers at the information centre afterwards. This camp is just a large tarmac square with grassy camping sites on one side. Camps6 #220 indicates no toilets but there is a clean toilet block next to the camping area and a water tap available.
The main features in Sheffield are the many murals painted on buildings all around, there is a mural walk featured on the town brochure taking us on a tour to see them all. I had briefly been to Sheffield previously enroute to ONeills Reserve and to climbing Mt Roland featured in the photo below. John
Made the short trip from Penguin to Sheffield via a scenic coastal route through Ulverston. After I had cooked eggs, bacon & tomato for us on a barbeque supplied for the travellers. First time in ages that I had those ingredients in the van, just leaving the farm must have had something to do with it.
We met up with Billeee and Jules as planned and spent the afternoon talking about our recent experiences. We plan to do the murals walk in the morning and take advantage of the $1 showers at the information centre afterwards. This camp is just a large tarmac square with grassy camping sites on one side. Camps6 #220 indicates no toilets but there is a clean toilet block next to the camping area and a water tap available.
The main features in Sheffield are the many murals painted on buildings all around, there is a mural walk featured on the town brochure taking us on a tour to see them all. I had briefly been to Sheffield previously enroute to ONeills Reserve and to climbing Mt Roland featured in the photo below. John
Those murals were beautiful 30 years ago when my son and i visited
The last time we saw the murals in Sheffield was the first day it rained in 1988 drought in Tassie. Eldest 2 kids had a fight, hubby took off without the oldest one who had started to walk. We picked him up further down the road then the hire caravan jack-knifed our Urvan and wrote it off. We were glad to go back to Tassie by ourselves with our own van - no dramas that time. And yes, those murals are great. Other towns around Australia have picked up on the idea since.
I loved Sheffield, the murals are great and after my first walk around I got up really early and took the wizzie whippets in to town and positioned them in front of most of the murals and photographed them as if they were a part of each mural - that was fun.
The other things I really liked in Sheffield was the Highland Tea rooms (best scones in Aust. I reckon) and the fresh fruit shop behind the tea rooms, who make their own smoothie ice cream for you!
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