Thread: Tassie trip Facts

Finally back from our trip to Tassie.

D4 odometer now reads 12284km.

Managed to get on a few dirt roads/offroad in a few places, some intentional, others not when the navigator sent us around the 'other' route - its a Garmin Nuvi 1490T with the topo maps on a micro SD that the Nuvi reads.

Off road impressions? Fan-bloody-tastic. On one very rough sandy track, we played with all the settings on the terrain response. Amazingly, I could detect differences in the engine response and in the traction control too.

Where the track had big pot holes and large differences in height, the car stayed mainly level inside. Guess it must have been lifting a wheel here and ther to do that. So comfortable, it's amazing.

Funnily enough, the most 'agressive' time for the traction control was when we stopped to take some pictures. We parked on the side of the road, and in the 2 minutes we were out of the car, the wheels had sunk into the soft mud/grass to a few inches of the tyre not visible. Put the knob to the grass setting, and the traction control kicked in and with the banging/grinding sound that you get, we just drove out leaving some large ruts behind. Amazing.

So, Mileage:

Trip total:

2860 km, 294.95l diesel, 9.6km/l, 10.3l/100km or 27.39 mpg.

Pretty good for such hilly country we were driving through where even on the coast we would be a sea level, then 400m up, then back to sea level.

Hi there D3syd,
We went last year, great place to visit, my wife is Tasmanian so she already had a good idea where to head off to. Highlights for me were, Port Augusta, loads of history and tends to be quite an emotional visit, Mt Wellington, pancakes on the way up sensational, bloody cold at the top and more pancakes and a warm up on the way back down, a good test for the brakes and the cooling system. We stayed at a place called Richmond, model village there was really good, pub also was friendly and had good food. Stayed at the Stanley caravan park, excellent facilities, took the chair lift up onto the "nut" and had some really good views. The mining excavations are something to behold, Strahan I think.... We stayed in caravan park homes, wish we had taken the camper trailer, next time we will.
If your taking the ferry do the night sail, we did the day sail the first time we went over we lost two days of holiday looking at ocean, did the night sail the second time much better.
Just a bit of a personal opinion.