Campsite #17: Captain Cook Caravan Park (not recommended unless you like paying $1 for each cold shower on top of $28 for a patch of dust) - Wait for the Adventure caravan park to reopen. Yum, Yum, Yum, Wow, Wow, Wow. North and South Bruny are popular weekend holiday places for the locals, and we sure could see why. Our trip started with fresh-from-the-sea oysters with the most delectable homemade worcestershire sauce - picked up from the drive through and enjo...

Campsite #15: Mt Field National Park (highly recommended especially at $16 a night); Campsite #16: Barilla Holiday Park (not bad for a metropolitan park) WILDLIFE at your feet; walks at every turn; a new discovery around every corner. At Hamilton, we visited Australia's oldest church still in use. We felt so privileged to wander around the outside cemetery. Gravestones of pioneers born before Australia, others of settlers who died at the ages of 25, 28, 31 etc. ...

Campsite 14: Tarraleah Highland Park, Tarraleah Well, ours may well have been the fastest tour of Tassie's West Coast in history. We had planned to spend almost a week touring the old mining towns and world-heritage listed rainforest and rivers; but weren't that enchanted by what we saw. The scars of mining were red and raw. Queenstown looked like a napalm test site. A sad indictment of Australia's greed for natural resources at the expense of everything, includ...

Campsites #9-13: Spirit of Tasmania II, cabin 8076; Preservation Bay, Penguin (bushcamp); Wings Wildlife Park, Gunns Plains; Stanley Tourist Park, Stanley; Waratah Camping Ground, Waratah A WEEK in North-West Tassie. And what a week! Spectacular coastline, great hikes and more wildlife than even Angelina can remember. The girls went only slightly stir-crazy stuck in the car for an extra 2 hours as we queued to board the late-arriving Spirit of Tasmania II. A...