Another TRIP IN AUSTRALIA -Tasmania July/ August 2025 Part 4

[helios]

Thanks for sharing. Had the pleasure of visiting Perth and Hobart during a port call in March '97. Spent many evenings chilling at Joe's Garage (bar) in Hobart. Motorsport paraphernalia all over the walls...including some bumper/nose clips from some V8 Supercars. Still remember the Joe's shuttle doing a donut in the middle of the intersection and laying stripes down the road hauling a load of enlisted back to the pier that had to be back onboard before midnight.

Most lasting impression was the architecture in Perth. I keep threatening to go back for 3-4 weeks...likely timed around the Bathurst 1000 and Gold Coast race weekends. One of these years.....

 

[jknaus]

The Spirit of Tasmania I Ferry is 10.93 inches length overall in 1/700 scale. Just a touch too long for my pressure pot max.
Bugger all!

I shamelessly plugged https://www.threedbattleart.com/home on X a minute ago.

Do it in 2 halves Fore and Aft

 

[Brokeneagle]

The Spirit of Tasmania I Ferry is 10.93 inches length overall in 1/700 scale. Just a touch too long for my pressure pot max.
Bugger all!

I shamelessly plugged https://www.threedbattleart.com/home on X a minute ago.

Thanks Chris, very nice of you to 'give me a plug on X'. .......sorry about the boat length

 

[Brokeneagle]

Thanks for sharing. Had the pleasure of visiting Perth and Hobart during a port call in March '97. Spent many evenings chilling at Joe's Garage (bar) in Hobart. Motorsport paraphernalia all over the walls...including some bumper/nose clips from some V8 Supercars. Still remember the Joe's shuttle doing a donut in the middle of the intersection and laying stripes down the road hauling a load of enlisted back to the pier that had to be back onboard before midnight.

Most lasting impression was the architecture in Perth. I keep threatening to go back for 3-4 weeks...likely timed around the Bathurst 1000 and Gold Coast race weekends. One of these years.....

Sounds like a blast....we just had Bathurst last weekend and the final 10 laps around the mountain were a 'nail biter with 2 Camaro's against a lone Mustang that made its way up from 17 positions back to win.
You should come back.....and come across to the East and look me up - we can have you for dinner on the deck looking across at the National park forest.

 

[Brokeneagle]

Part 3
After Georgetown and the lighthouse we headed for Bridport on the North east coast.

A nice easy drive to a small coastal town that allowed us to get to Scottsdale from the North rather than the west through the foothills like last time. We had another roast at the Pub (like last year) which was to die for - the same as on the boat (which was a Scottsdale roast).
Anyway one night there and on to St.Helens on the NE coast via the mountain pass.
Leaving Scottsdale....

ST.HELENS - a beautiful, small fishing town. We always stop for a coffee and a Toastie(toasted cheese and Ham sandwich) at Banjo's. We always have a sunny day when we arrive and sit at the outside tables and enjoy the sun. Tassie has the 2nd lowest rainfall of all the Australian states, even though we are closer to Antartica.
These boats are for Chris.....

We stayed the night at Stieglitz on the pennisula on the opposite side of the bay from St.helens. From there we adventured north to see the Bay of fires, Binalong Bay and the Gardens, then headed south for Bicheno and stayed there the night.
Not a footprint on any of these beaches!

At the end of the road north we stopped at the Gardens where there was a cool farm right on the coast....I could live there.....

and then we arrived at Bicheno for the night, about an hour south of St.Helens.
This is the view from our Hotel room in Bicheno - breakfast on the balcony, same as last year.
** That headland that ends at the sea, in the mid section of the photo above is the northern side of the headland that ends in the sea below - we are now to the south of all of that.

A good nights sleep and on to more adventures to the south.......
Next Up Part 3.

 

[Rhino]

There certainly is some stunning scenery in Tasmania! Thanks for sharing your holiday snaps!

 

[Rhino]

Do it in 2 halves Fore and Aft

Nah. There's vendor in Japan (Fairy Kikaku?) that casts in blue resin. He divides his ships into sections vertically like that. Hulls can be filled and sanded, but the wood decking seam is impossible! Nothing is more irritating than that! His models are unbuildable.

I build all my own models before I sell them to you guys, so they have to be fun and rewarding to make or I don't monkey around with them.

 

[moon puppy]

All those fishing boats, got to be some good seafood around! Thanks for sharing Ian!!

 

[Brokeneagle]

All those fishing boats, got to be some good seafood around!

* You bet Bob, fresh, clean and delicious!
Part 3 Time
From Bicheno we headed further south to more beautiful beaches and the Freycinet peninsula.

Coffee and biscuts at the Chain of Lagoons. Morninging tea every day was somewhere great!

Coles bay - spectacular rock formations with Wineglass bay on the other side.
This pic is from Google Maps.

We stayed that night at the Freycinet resort - we were never in any doubt about that and if we were on the right road....

The resort was at the top of the mountain, with cabins and a seperate resaurant with a fantastic view of Coles bay from the main building and the Tasman sea from the cabin deck [looking toward New Zealand].
We stayed in the 3rd cabin from the left.

We were the only ones there.......we were treated like kings with great views.

The view from the restaurant.

very cosy cabin for 2 - no kids rule at this resort, which was wonderful........
We checked out the lighthouse and the scenic cliff walk up to it - bloody freezing, very windy. It is the middle of Winter, which I kept forgetting because of the beautiful weather.

2 nights here and back on the road....

The features over the water are Freycinet Penninsula where we stayed last night.
Part 4 Orford and on to Port Arthur and Hobart.......

 

[moon puppy]

Thank you Ian. Great photos. That's a wallaby correct?

 

[jknaus]

Man the scenery is gorgeous. Maybe one day i'll be able to go and see it for myself.
James

 

[Heavens Eagle]

Looks like a really nice place to visit. Thanks for sharing the photos!

 

[Brokeneagle]

Thank you Ian. Great photos. That's a wallaby correct?

Thanks mate, yes you are correct. They are darker in color and smaller than Kangaroos - also stupider and thats saying something, as Kangaroos are really stupid.

Thanks James and Paul, as they say in 'The Price is Right' - C'mon down!

 

[centaur567]

Great photos!! I took an R&R to Sydney way back in 1970 while in the Army. It was great.
Gary S.

 

[RichB]

We almost missed it, 22 October is International Wombat Day.

Cheers,
RichB

 

[Brokeneagle]

Part 4
Lower East coast to Lewisham(east of Hobart).

I left off last time on the opposite side of the bay from the Freycinet Penninsula as we headed further south for Swansea and Orford.
We stopped at Kelvedon beach again this trip to get a proper look at the old boat shed that had been repaired over time but the walls are the original stone built by the convicts, about 150 years ago.

Next stop was some lunch at the marina at Triabunna,

......then coffee and cake at Raspins Beach, Orford, the last bit of coast line before heading inland to cut across to Lewisham and Hobart. Once again, no traffic, no crowds. Love Tasmania!

We had some lunch and turned left at Orford on the Tasman Hwy and followed the gorge up the Prosser river into the highlands and Buckland. The gorge was actually quite spectacular but I was driving and my wife only took 1 picture . The road snaked its way along the river to the right and rocky walls to the immediate left as we slowly climbed.

We passed through the hinterland and back down to the south coast and stayed at a small B&B room on the ground floor of a house, right on the inlet just out of Hobart. I cooked up some salmon on the 'Barbi' with a view to die for.......

Hobart is just below the mountains in the distance with the big one in the clouds being Mt Wellington, which we will go to the top of in a few days time.
Next-up is the Tasman Penninsula, Port Authur and Hobart.

 

[moon puppy]

Thanks again for sharing Ian. What a great adventure.

 

[Heavens Eagle]

Love the photos Ian! Definitely a beautiful country.