Australian rocks!
Quite literally, being home to so many spectacular rock formations. Here are some of the best I’ve seen so far from my travels across this vast continent. The Bungle Bungle…
Tag: Tasmania
Best of 2017 – Photography – Australia
One of my favourite travel destinations (thankfully, as other than the Pacific Islands it’s the only place within reasonable flying distance of New Zealand), I made four trips to Australia…
Highlights of Tasmania
A rewarding if low key place, Tasmania is worth the trip over from the mainland (there are no direct international flights) to explore, particularly if you like heritage and escaping…
Running in Tasmania
One of the highlights of travel to me is running in new places. It makes the running much more interesting, and is a great way to see more of a…
Launceston to Hobart via the Tasmanian East Coast
Home stretch from Tasmania’s second largest to city to the capital city, covering some of the most popular spots along the East Coast including Bay of Fires and Wineglass Bay.…
Cradle Mountain to Launceston
After heading through the remote Lakes Highlands, Tasmanian West Coast, and The Tarkine, we started to head back toward relative civilisation, or at least more people. Cradle Mountain is the…
Tasmanian West Coast to The Tarkine
A day of travelling inland from Strahan on the Tasmanian West Coast to Waratah, the surprisingly pleasant northern gateway to The Tarkine, a largely untouched temperate rainforest. First stop was…
Hobart to the Tasmanian West Coast
Giant sand dunes, heritage buildings, old trees, long running theatre and more heading from Hobart through the Tasmanian Central Plateau to the small West Coast seaside town of Strahan, first…
Port Arthur
A huge former British penal colony, Port Arthur is an impressive and well managed historic site with over 30 buildings ageing from 1833 to 1936. It packs a lot of…
Tasman Peninsula
A great day trip from Hobart with Pennicott Wilderness Journeys combined a full circuit of the Tasman Peninsula by boat, and an explore of the impressive remains of the Port Arthur…
Heritage Hobart
Hobart is home to more historic buildings than I’ve seen almost anywhere in Australasia, with few modern buildings other than a few fancy wharves on the waterfront and the usual…
Hobart Street Art
As I’d expected given it’s arty culture there was a fair amount of street art in Hobart. My favourites though were the signal boxes I found around town, which had…
Hobart
Tasmania’s state capital Hobart is a pleasant if mostly unspectacular place (other than a few things at the end of this post), particularly strong on heritage and it’s connection with…