This had been a great camp site despite the extortionate price. The facilities were good and some wallabies had passed close by to say hello. After brekky we drove back across to the visitor centre car park so we could go back into the National Park to do another walk. We got the shuttle bus just one stop to the Ranger Station from where we could start the Cradle Valley Boardwalk. As the name implies this is a boardwalk and it runs just over 6 kilometres through ...

Despite our best attempts at getting rid of all the mozzies we had still got bitten. We were hot and uncomfortable so we risked the showers again. The mozzies were still there all lined up. After breakfast we got out of Queenstown. We had decided to go to Cradle Mountain today. This is Tasmania's big tourist draw and I thought that it would be very busy. I phoned ahead to the camp site at Cradle Mountain to make sure that we had somewhere to stay tonight. Luckily...

We left early today with the intention of having breakfast on the road. We had hoped to find a suitable picnic area or lookout but we didn't find any. Tasmania seems lacking in rest areas and the few we did find were unwelcoming or full of murderers cars! (see MSO game from previous blog). We stopped off on the way at Hamilton to get some bread. It was all very hillbilly and local so we got our bread quickly and got out of there. The scenery on this drive was inc...

We had a lovely snug night. It was quite chilly this morning and we had our fleeces on first thing. We left Snug after breakfast. We were heading towards the Mount Field National Park and we had to drive back through Hobart. We started playing a game driving through called MSO. This stands for Murderer, Simpleton, Okay! We have noticed that the people of Tasmania are not as friendly as on the mainland and look quite scary. The murderers all drive utes like maniac...

We are about halfway round Tasmania now and will be heading north again soon. Before that we decided to go for a drive south of Hobart. On the way out of the city we went to Mount Nelson to get a good view of the whole city. We had thought of going up to the top of Mount Wellington which is twice the height but it was covered in cloud today. Also it was a longer drive up a very winding road. The view from Mount Nelson was good enough for us. From here we drove on...