Shelley Dark
- Feb 21, 2019
#1 Monaro
In the last post about Tassie, I said I'd have a surprise in a couple of weeks. Nous voici! I didn't ever dream that I'd start writing a...
Shelley Dark
- Feb 10, 2019
#14 Pumphouse Point. The end.
And so to the final leg of our journey - from Strahan on the west coast, through Queenstown to Pumphouse Point, then on to Hobart to fly...
Shelley Dark
- Jan 29, 2019
#13 Strahan
After spending a lifetime of summers in sticky muggy Queensland, it's hard to imagine a better destination at this time of year than...
Shelley Dark
- Jan 29, 2019
#12 Cradle Mountain
The very name Cradle Mountain has its own magic cachet. Because of excellent marketing? As significant as we'd been led to believe? We...
Shelley Dark
- Jan 27, 2019
#11 Stanley and the west coast
We drove to Stanley along the pretty undulating coastal hills which at first drop precipitously to the sea. In flatter country, we...
Shelley Dark
- Jan 26, 2019
#10 Launceston to Burnie and beyond...
Since we left you last at Launceston, we've covered the north-west of Tassie - easy to do in a short time because the distances are so...
Shelley Dark
- Jan 19, 2019
#9. Best of Launceston
Booking an AirBNB somewhere in an unfamiliar city is always a bit of a gamble isn't it? Will the park next door be a drug dealers'...
Shelley Dark
- Jan 8, 2019
#8 Falmouth to Launceston
After a very happy week at Falmouth we were excited to be on our way. I have three rules for a happy road trip: make sure there's a...
Shelley Dark
- Jan 1, 2019
#7. Freycinet
We anticipated a long day at Wineglass Bay, so we set the alarm for 5am. We drove there, climbed to the Lookout and back, called in...
Shelley Dark
- Dec 31, 2018
#6. Falmouth
Here we are in Falmouth, population 102 according to the 2016 census. It could just be the most liveable town in Australia! If there were...
Shelley Dark
- Dec 30, 2018
#5 Sydney to Hobart final strait!
When I first booked Saltcotes for Christmas, I gave no thought to its position relative to the Derwent River, or to the date of the...
Shelley Dark
- Dec 29, 2018
#4. Tassie Christmas
We agreed that if we spent Christmas in Tassie this year we wouldn't do gifts at all. No tree, no bonbons, no gifts, no pre-cooking. A...
Shelley Dark
- Dec 23, 2018
#3. Opossum Bay Tassie
O'Possum Bay is a sleepy village forty minutes drive from Hobart, yet it's light years away. Fifties weatherboard cottages snuggle low...
Shelley Dark
- Dec 19, 2018
#2. Feel the serenity?
In the south-east of Tasmania on a 200-acre peninsula surrounded by the chilly waters of Esperance Bay and the d'Entrecasteaux Channel,...
Shelley Dark
- Dec 16, 2018
#1 Must-see Hobart
Hobart is really buzzing. There's a sophistication born of knowing who you are and what you're good at. A quiet confidence that Tassie...