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Sunset at Richardsons Beach

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Lovely campsite with its own private access to the beach

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The Wool Centre

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The bridge completed in 1836

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Ross Uniting Church, 1885

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Lovely Tasmanian Devil

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Hobart is a beautiful city. I loved walking around the waterfront in particular and visiting the old Battery Point as well as Salamanca Place.

The ride up to Mount Wellington was awesome although it was freezing up there!!

And, I spent a very nice Christmas day with the Wilson Family!

The video is about 14 minutes long.



Visiting Battery Point with the Walking Tour

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This 1830 Merchant's Town House is Narryna Heritage Museum

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Nice Buildings in Battery Point

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Alexander's Restaurant, Runnymede St

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Silos converted in Apartment Building

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Along Salamanca Place

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Salamanca Square

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Mount Wellington in the background

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Elizabeth Street

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I love this one!
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The view from top of Mount Wellington

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Sailboats from the Rolex Sydney Hobart Yacht Race at Constitution Dock

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The Taste of Tasmania is a very popular event

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I took a couple of days to ride on Tasman Peninsula, visit Port Arthur Historic Site as well as Fortescue Bay in Tasman Nat'l Park.

The video is 20 minutes long.

Carte Port Arthur



Fortescue Bay, Tasman Nat'l Park

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The Penitentiary, Port Arthur Historic Site

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Guard Tower, Military District

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Smith O'Brien's Cottage. He was a famous political prisoner from Ireland

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Paupers' Depot

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The Asylum

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A Cell in the Separate Prison

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Government Gardens

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The Tasman Arch

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Tasman Arch Lookout

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Tessellated Pavement

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View from Tasman Bay Nat'l Park Lookout

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I spent four wonderful days on Bruny Island. There’s lots to see over there and I found some very nice campgrounds and hiking tracks. The most spectacular moment, that was unfortunately not captured on camera, is the evening activity with a ranger at the Neck Lookout. You get to see thousands of birds, the short-tailed shearwaters as well as penguins coming on shore to their nest. An unique and awesome experience!

Carte T6 - Bruny Island

The video is divided in two 15 minutes sessions, enjoy!





Jetty Beach, South Bruny Nat'l Park

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View from Cape Bruny Lighthouse

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The Neck Campground Beach

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View from the Neck Lookout

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Full Moon at the Neck Lookout

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I spent two days at Cockel Creek Campground located in Southwest Nat’l Park. This is Australia’s Southernmost Road and there’s an easy hike that brings you to South Cape Bay which offers extraordinary scenery.

On my way back up North, I had a look at the Tahune Air Walk, an interesting experience. The road getting there was awesome!

Carte T7 - Cockle Creek


The video is divided in two parts, first one is 14 minutes and the second part is 9 minutes long.





Port Huon, just north of Geeveston

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Based on what's indicated in the Motorcycle Atlas, you can get directly from Grove to New Norfolk by taking a gravel road, a section between Crabtree and Lachlan (Ride #166).
I sort of easily found Mitchells Road which becomes Jeffreys Track, but it looks much more like a track than a road… and is well indicated as 4WD only. Although this stretch was about 14 km, I decided to turn back. Too bad but when you're on your own, especially on a very warm day with not enough water anyway, I think this was a wise decision...

So, I took the long way up to Mount Field Nat'l Park, which was a very pleasant ride. I spent a few days over there. You will see in the video that I went hiking the Lady Barron Falls Circuit. A lovely place!
Then I went riding up the gravel section of Lake Dobson Road (16 km, very narrow and twisty!) and enjoyed the Pandani Grove Track along Dobson Lake.

Carte T8 - Mount Field

The video is 16 minutes long.

During my stay at Mount Field Nat'l Park Campground, I took the opportunity to ride along Gordon River Road all the way to see the beautiful Gordon Dam. The scenery on the way through the mountains is awesome!

Gordon Dam is a major gated double curvature concrete arch dam with a controlled spillway, and its operation started in 1978. It is the tallest dam in Tasmania and quite an extraordinary engineering work.
Very impressive to walk on the dam!

Carte T9 - Gordon Dam

The video is 20 minutes long.



Lake Pedder

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Gordon Dam

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What a great trip!!! I am in the planning process for a 90 day ride around Australia on my personal motorcycle. I am having difficulty in finding an insurance company that provides non resident insurance for a personal vehicle. What did you do for your motorcycle insurance? I have shipped the motorcycle to Europe twice and the insurance coverage is the "Green Card". Is there anything similar in Australia?

Thanks

Wilf McQuinn
Huntsville
Ontario

Hi Wilf!

Try Swann Motorcycle Insurance Australia, however I do have a temporary home address in Melbourne. If you need to find a 'friend' to borrow an address, contact the HU Community in the city where you will be landing.

https://www.swanninsurance.com.au/

90 days is not enough to see it all, but it's a good start!

Cheers,
Claire

I left Mount Field National Park on a cloudy day and decided to go east for 10 km to Hamilton in order to get some fuel and groceries. Could not find anything in that small town… Luckily the next town west (Ouse) had everything I needed!

Rain started just before getting to Tarraleah. You can see on the map below the layout of the road to get down the ravin along the Nive River and back up is quite twisty. I stopped at the power station and had a look at its long steel pipes and huge chimneys. The water drops 290m to the power station that was opened in 1938.

Tarraleah

Next stop was at 'The Wall' to see the incredible art work of the sculptor Greg Duncan. There are one hundred panels of huon pin, 3m high by 1m wide in the exhibit. Fascinating experience, which could not be recorded on film. I was so impressed with his work, I spent more than an hour looking around this place!

The sky cleared up as I was setting up my tent at the Lake St Clair Lodge Campground. It was quite cold that evening and unfortunately, the kitchen shelter has openings on all sides… But it was worth it as I enjoyed an amazing hike the following day up to Mount Rufus.]

Carte T10 - Lake St Clair

The video is 22 minutes long and ends at Nelson Falls, on my way to Queenstown.




Tarraleah Power Station

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The end of the Overland Track at Lake St Clair Visitor Centre

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Lake St Clair

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Hiking up Mount Rufus

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View of Lake St Clair

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Track going down Mount Rufus

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Nelson Falls

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I spent four days in the best Caravan Park I have seen so far, right here in Queenstown. It's under new management and the couple who runs it are doing an amazing job! Top first class!

Queenstown's area seems to get more rain than elsewhere. Clouds would come in and go with a few showers. From there, I did a few day trips and one of them was towards Strahan et Zeehan, a lovely area with lots of curves on the way.

Travelling in Australia is always full of surprises. You never know who you will meet during the day or what you will see. During my visit to Macquarie Heads, I made a new friend on the beach and he took me for a ride on his quad up the hill where he said I could take better pictures…

Carte T11 - Queenstown

The video is 30 minutes long.



View of Queenstown from the Spion Kop Lookout

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Queenstown Post Office

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Walking the beach at Macquarie Heads

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Stuart with his Quad

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View from the top of the hill, Quad Tour

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Ocean Beach

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During my travel in Tasmania I did quite a lot of hiking, usually half-a-day walks selected from the '60 Great Short Walk'. I heard about the Walls of Jerusalem and its spectacular landscape, and thought it might be less crowded than Cradle Mountain. A good opportunity for an overnight hike!

I left Queenstown and followed the road shown on the map below to Mole Creek in order to get supplies as well as the detailed map of Walls of Jerusalem Nat'l Park.

Carte T12 - Walls of Jerusalem

Carte T13 - Burnie et Boat Harbour

The first 2.6 km going up the track is steep and a bit difficult carrying my big backpack. It took me 3½ hours to get to the campsite. I can't believe anyone can get there in two hours as indicated on the map!!!

I camped two nights at Wild Dog Creek Campsite which gave me the opportunity to get to the top of Mount Jerusalem, 11.6 km from the car park.

The weather was perfect for this activity and I was really impressed with the scenery.

Have a look!

Part 1 is 20 minutes long



Part 2 is 12 minutes long



Cradle Mountain in the Background

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Wild Dog Creek Campsite

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Snake lying in the sun at the campsite

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Hiking to Mount Jerusalem

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View from top of Mount Jerusalem

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Solomons Throne

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View from top of Solomons Throne

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View of the track from the top of Solomons Throne

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