Bush Fires and Flooding!!
Strange smells, noises and cute, funny looking animals.

Tasmania is a beautiful island with an interesting history

The island has some amazing coast line and lots of bush unfortunately for us we arrived when the west of the island was suffering from wild bush fires closing a number of roads and the east was experiencing the worse flooding they’d seen in years. We had chosen to cycle down the east coast so as you can imagine we got very wet and had to stop in Bicheno for a day as the roads were closed all around us.

In between the rain we have seen some beautiful coastal views and met some lovely fellow cycle tourers.

The cycling has been hard as the island is very hilly, full of road kill and there are very few shops, cafes and accommodation on route, if this wasn’t bad enough it is a very expensive island especially compared to Asia and the internet access is very poor.

The highlight of our week was visiting Marie Island where we saw lots of wildlife including Wombats and the elusive Tasmanian Devil

There’s lots more information in our diaries section of the website.

Hope you are all well and we look forward to seeing you soon only 2 more months to go.

very windy on Maria Island

Pademelons all around our tent

Our friends Bharti and Pete in Sydney

It is so funny cycling though English/Welsh town names

Gary at bath time, pioneer lake.

Painted Cliffs on Maria Island

stools made from bike parts, Sydney harbour

laughing kookaburra’s sitting in the old gum tree

view from the coastal road East Tasmania

crossing into Dorset, Tasmania

Wombat, there were lots of them on Maria Island – so cute

Close up of our new cuddly wombat friend

Mary poppins eat your heart out, Bicheno.

Typical post box,

Lilydale, painted posts.

Our entertainment at breakfast in campsite at Bicheno.

Is she calling me It?, Sydney harbour

windy and wet Maria Island with some stunning views – Painted Cliffs

natural lake and pool area in the Cataract at Launceston

Lilydale, a high street of about 5 houses

The road on the NE corner, turned into dirt track for 10 miles.

Feeding Alapaca’s on the East Coast

A family on Australia day

who do you think you’re looking at?

hide me mummy

Peekaboo

a naff but free camping spot at the back of a pub in Triabunna

Ginette getting excited as she recognises stock names – so much choice

What a beauty

Fairy penguin at Bicheno.

Blow hole at Bicheno

Ginette having lunch and keeping the flies off.

Tea break, no flies on Gary.