Loving Tasmania, BUT. No2

Last year I did the Tassie thing with a camper van in tow.
I think we only free camped twice due to lack of knowleage of where to find them.
caravan parks...the ones we went to were reasonable, but we were at peak time and finding ones which had free space was a problem.
A good example is in the centre of a place called Warratah....a old mining town ship.
Camped for a very small fee .....I think it was 8 dollars and had use of washing machine and showers(great the clean the kids and their clothes).
The camp site was beside a lake with a resident platypus.
We shared the place with only 2 other campers.
The mining display in centre of town was free and near the camp spot.
the buildings and history were interesting.
I think it is the only Aust town around with a large waterfall on the main street.
On the East coast a free camp was I think it was called Bay of Lagoons.....free camp........was full and a little bit dirty, but great swimming for the kids, choice of ocean or lagoon.
About 10 ks out of Hobart we stayed at a cavavan park for Two nights and done Hobart and Mt wellington etc.......the Park was full, but the foods at the park was good and priced OK.
Good sea food meal was picked up from the Hobart water front.
Tassie has great river swimming if you know where to find it.
Tassie was no more expensive than the mainland other than fuel.
Knowing were to go to get the best bang for you buck is the trick.
I found talking the locals was the key.
I found the local food brillant........ashgrove cheese, the cherry shed including the Boags and cascade brewrys.
Penquin tours near Devenport by the national Pks costs a lot...........go down the road off the highway and its free......the locals told us.

I did though Port Arthur was over priced.
I did learn the area has many other things to offer.
Remarkable lookout was free and very worth while and travelling back up the east coast many blowholes, caves and things like that.
( missed the bush fires by one day)
Wynyard????????North coast had a car collection at the back of the tourist information centre that impressed me greatly for I think of a cost of a few dollars to get in, mostly Ford cars, including henry Fords first car he built in 1899...........why that car is in Tassie and and not some collection in the USA beats me
Wynyard has a great lookout over the ocean 5 ks from town.

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Originally Posted by landy

And as wrinkle Arthur said, the sheer cost of getting over here on the boat, towing the trailer should have been the first combat indicator. $1400 return.
Nino.

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That is another good reason I'm glad I have a Trayon slide-on camper instead of a camper trailer.
My wife and I went over in February for about 1/3 of that. I think it was $89 for the vehicle.
We had three weeks and spent most of the time in free camping spots on the East Coast. I remember it as a very cheap holiday.
It helps if you have the time to travel on the Spirit during the day so there is no accommodation cost.
It also helps if you were born before the middle of the last century.
It also helps enormously if you take up Wrinklearthur's offer and use his place as a base.

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Originally Posted by vnx205

It also helps if you were born before the middle of the last century.
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I was having a quiet chuckle at that until my wife reminded me I was born in 1948. Bob
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Originally Posted by vnx205

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Tell me all about it, you how many times shop assistants ask me: Sir, do you have the seniors card with you? :D

Guys, I reiterate all that is said above, talk to the locals, DON'T go to the waterfront and expect cheap meals, it just AINT going to happen:eek:.

There are LOTS of good campsites, this last year or so 2 more caravan parks opened up, in beautiful spots.

Rivers Edge Wilderness Camping , also Huon Valley Caravan Park Tasmania | Located thirty minutes from Hobart

The Snug beach caravan park just 10 minutes south of us in Kingston is sooo clean and well serviced, and on the beach.

You want REAL food at a very decent price?? Try this place:https://www.facebook.com/pages/Masaa...33400560012836

Wrinklearthur is a legend for offering his pad, :), I may even take him up on this myself when I want to escape for a weekend :)


There is heaps to see here without spending heaps of $$


JC :)

Hi,
haven't been to Port Arthur since they mentioned the words 'entrance fee'.

There are lots of places that are just set up to milk the tourist dollar - the Air-walk used to be a beaut camp-spot right on the river. Yep you can pay $$ to walk out on the cantilevered gantry to see the Picton and Huon River confluence, or you can take a rubber tube up the river a bit, drift down to the next bridge and see the lot for nix.
If want to 'see it all in a week', it will cost $$.
I've been here a life time, and I recon I've still got more than half to see.

cheers

Well, like good sandgropers, and despite the doom sayers, we are coming to Tas, complete with small camper trailer and with another senior couple (non AULRO - who are driving a T machine) for 10 days in Jan (2nd to 13th).
Would love to come longer, but have time contraints, so will do west coast, Hobart for 3 days, east coast and back to Devonport. Won't have time to do the middle, but did do it several times many years ago when we Launceston grammer boys went down to show the southerners how to swim and dive.

$250 for a Port Arthur "Gold Pass"?
What do you get for that, & how long has that been in place.
We went there many years ago on a coach tour from Melbourne, long before "The Massacre", & I can't remember paying anything like that...I think it was simply a "nominal" entry fee in those days, we also visited the Island of the Dead.
It was an awesome historic place, but $250 value?.....I don't think so.
Pickles.

Port Arthur gold pass

$100 adult, $95 concession, $77 child

Information is HERE