

Queenstown, Tasmania
Set off on the 250 kms drive to Queenstown today for our first stopover. Roads virtually empty with scenery lush and varied. Clouds grew darker as we went further west. We passed a hydroelectric generation plant with enough capacity to serve the whole of Tasmania. Steady rain started about an hour later so we stopped at Lake St Clair Lodge for lunch and watched all the walkers who had obviously set out earlier to walk in this national park in sunshine and ret...