Taple Cape, Boat Harbour Beach and Stanley


Sunday the 8th April we left Tullah and headed to the north coast. We now had only one week left of our 11 week Tazzie trip.  Linda is cheering. I will be glad to get home and see the girls but I don’t want the trip to end. Although, I don’t care if I don’t see another bend or hill as long as I live.

The north west is the only area we have not covered so that is where we are headed. First we are right out of water so we went to Waratah to fill up. Whilst filling with water got talking to a nice fellow who had done a lot of similar travelling as us, including WA and it was good comparing notes.

Second thing was that we were aware that the movie, ‘I Can Only Imagine’ was showing at the cinema at Burnie where we were about to go through. So we set up camp at a free camp, Cooee Point which is the next suburb to Burnie. We went and watched the movie that afternoon. It was awesome. The movie is about a song by that name and its author. This was one of the biggest Christian songs of all time and people all across the world have loved it whether they be Christian or not.

We had already looked around Burnie so the next morning we moved on. Stopped off in Wynyard to fill an empty gas bottle and then stopped in to the information centre. Glad we did as they gave us the tip to go up to Table Cape. Table Cape is a volcanic plug just like The Nut at Stanley. It is very fertile because of the basalt soil. The views at the lookout were amazing.






Around the other side of Table Cape was another lookout to the north which looked toward Boat Harbour Beach.





We had been given a tip about Boat Harbour Beach from a guy at the markets at Ulverstone on day two in Tazzie. The info centre at Wynyard had said how nice it was as well. So that was our next stop and it turns out they were not exaggerating. It was the most gorgeous beach in Tazzie we had seen. There was a great coffee shop there which we made use of. It was a great place to visit and if the weather is good and we have the chance we would camp a night there on our way home.







We moved on to Stanley and booked in to the caravan park there as there was washing to be done and Linda needed her civilized caravan park fix. From the caravan park, as anywhere in town, The Nut was imposing.




We set up, unhitched, had lunch and went up to The Nut car park. Walked to the top and did the circuit. Note, we walked, did not do the chair lift, go us. The views from the top were amazing.




















These are pano photos of the same scenes.






Met another echidna on the track.






After The Nut checked out the town. Stanley is a beautiful little town. All the houses seem to be built in a colonial style weatherboard and some are very old and others are recent builds but deliberately kept in the old style. Some of the CBD of the town is still original period block cement.





The next morning we left the caravan park and drove up to the Highfield House Historic Site. The British King at the time gave a royal grant of 250,000 acres (and later increased to 350,000) to the Van Dieman's Land Company to establish farming. In 1826 the company established the property and Highfield House was built. It is quite a magnificent place. I enjoyed the history, especially the stories of the people involved and how they lived. The aboriginal story was very sad though.








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