Linda & Pete's Travels Jan to April 2018 - Tasmania

The process of getting off the Spirit of Tasmania was also very smooth. Once on the road we headed for Penguin which is about 20 minutes from Devonport. The reason for going there was because there are three free camps there right on the beach. I also knew that the next couple of days would be warm weather so the aim was to enjoy some beach weather while we can, knowing that Tazzie is likely to be pretty cool to cold most of our trip. There were a heap of vans and motorhomes at each of the free camps as it was the Australia Day long weekend and still school holidays. There were a lot of Tazzie locals there, some from only 8 km up the road at Burnie. By the next morning more than half of the campers left. We had found a good spot anyway and when the sun came out it was awesome. But whilst the weather in the morning was still very cloudy we took a drive to Ulverstone. There was a farmer’s market that morning and we needed some vegies as we could not bring...

The original plan was to leave on Wednesday the 23 rd but once we got up to go we chose to leave the Thursday instead and make the trip to Melbourne in two days rather than three. Our daughter and son-n-law were arriving home from a three week holiday on the Wednesday night so visiting them was the main reason to go Thursday. Don’t know why we did not think of it earlier or discuss it before, busy I suppose. Anyway it was good seeing them before we left and a great tonic for Linda who was not looking forward to going away from home for so long. So we left on the Thursday morning getting away by 7.30am, not bad for us. We made it to Albury Showgrounds where we had planned to meet with Linda’s sister Jan and bro-n-law Ross. They had just got off the Spirit of Tasmania the day before, after having a three week holiday in Tazzie themselves. It was great seeing them and also getting some tips on where to go once we got over to Tazzie and some tips about the boat. Before leaving t...