Dolce Vita - a life of pleasure and luxury

Tasmania – untouched, wild and beautiful scenery; challenging mountainous walks; fish that could be caught (and some that could not); warm and sunny; friendly people and animals! delicious local produce; and a lot of history – the Apple Isle exceeded all of our expectations.

Originally we planned to travel around the Island for 3 weeks; we extended this by another 10 days and still felt rushed. Those who say Tassie can be seen in a long weekend – have alot more to see!. February was definitely the right month to travel in, only 3 days of overcast and wettish weather meant we walked further than we had expected!!! The facilities for pulling up and camping almost anywhere in a bus were brilliant and have set a standard that will be hard to meet elsewhere. This also meant that there were plenty of grey nomads traveling with us too!!!

Being in Tassie, you soon forget that you are part of a much larger country (or part of Australia at all) however the coastline of Tasmania is longer than both Victoria and New South Wales put together and with a population of 470,000, we often felt like we had the place to ourselves. It is often the forgotten State however Tasmania is very self sufficient and nowhere else in Oz, where we have traveled, has the local produce been so fresh, cheap and available.

The journey there and back on The Spirit was smooth sailing and after watching the Spirit of Tasmania II sail past Bronte Beach into Sydney Harbour on numerous occasions, it was actually quite exciting to finally have a go ourselves!!

We could go on but instead have put together just a few photos, which we hope paint a rough picture of what Tassie is like and what we got up to whilst we were there.

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