Wanna go to Tassie?

**Landy Red** · 12th January 2021, 09:01 PM

Heaps of free camping around Queenstown (i live here.) You can even park your van at the gravel footy oval. Loads of great free spots around Lake Burbry too. Accommodation at caravan park is cheap too. Queenstown is the best base to explore West coast from. You'd want two weeks out west minimum. West coast is the real tassie experience, nothing like it anywhere were else in Australia - it's a temperate (cool climate) rainforest that meets the southern/Indian Ocean. The geology, climate and history is just so different to rest of Tas. Rest of tas is beautiful too, but similar to anywhere else in s.e Australia. We have the unconformity arts festival too this year and that is a world class level of weird and exciting. And for 150k you can buy a 3bed nice house. Plenty of people moving from interstate just to set up base here. Property market on fire atm, best performing in Aus. Oh, and the 4wdriving is great!

**Tins** · 13th January 2021, 11:56 AM

Originally Posted by Old Farang

You like trains don't you, Homestar?

West Coast Wilderness Railway (wcwr.com.au)

Makes Puffing Billy look ordinary.

**Tins** · 13th January 2021, 12:01 PM

Originally Posted by Landy Red

Heaps of free camping around Queenstown (i live here.) You can even park your van at the gravel footy oval. Loads of great free spots around Lake Burbry too. Accommodation at caravan park is cheap too. Queenstown is the best base to explore West coast from. You'd want two weeks out west minimum. West coast is the real tassie experience, nothing like it anywhere were else in Australia - it's a temperate (cool climate) rainforest that meets the southern/Indian Ocean. The geology, climate and history is just so different to rest of Tas. Rest of tas is beautiful too, but similar to anywhere else in s.e Australia. We have the unconformity arts festival too this year and that is a world class level of weird and exciting. And for 150k you can buy a 3bed nice house. Plenty of people moving from interstate just to set up base here. Property market on fire atm, best performing in Aus. Oh, and the 4wdriving is great!

You've won me.

Queenstown - Accommodation & Things to Do | Discover Tasmania

**pop058** · 13th January 2021, 01:35 PM

Originally Posted by Old Farang

You like trains don't you, Homestar?

West Coast Wilderness Railway (wcwr.com.au)

There is also this rail carriage.

tassie High rail.jpg

**p38arover** · 13th January 2021, 03:09 PM

We did the Western Explorer about 18 years ago in a rental VT Commodore. My wife, who never gets carsick, did with the winding rough road.

So she took over driving and I started to feel sick.

I reckon we’d have been OK in our ‘86 Rangie.

**Landy Red** · 13th January 2021, 05:03 PM

Don't think that exists any more unfortunately.

Originally Posted by pop058

There is also this rail carriage.

tassie High rail.jpg

**Landy Red** · 13th January 2021, 05:06 PM

Was a converted 3 door 130 I think. I remember it was for sale in Launceston about 8 years ago.

**V8Ian** · 13th January 2021, 06:41 PM

Originally Posted by Landy Red

Don't think that exists any more unfortunately.

So what stops the weeds growing on the track now?

**Old Farang** · 13th January 2021, 06:52 PM

Originally Posted by V8Ian

So what stops the weeds growing on the track now?

Steam!

**scarry** · 13th January 2021, 07:53 PM

Originally Posted by V8Ian

So what stops the weeds growing on the track now?

Roundup...

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