Today, we're up early for a cruise along the Gordon Murray. It's $85 well spent. First, we head out of the harbour, through one of the world's narrowest harbour entrances, Hell's Gates, and into the open ocean, and the roaring 40s. Massive winds, and even though the waves aren't big, the 38 foot catarmaran is still thrown around. The captain tells us he's encountered 25m high waves out here. We're actually lucky to be through the gates, as most days the we...

Cradle Valley National Park is 168,000 hectares of World Heritage parkland, full of lakes, mountains, and forests. We take a couple of hours to have a walk around Dove Lake, on of Tasmania's best short walks, which gives great views across the water, as well as off the mountains. Moving on, we head over to the west coast, and stop at some more dunes on our way to Strahan. These are the Henty Dunes, and are even bigger than on the east coast. Still only arou...

Mole Creek: a tiny little village. The only real point of interest are some caves: King Solomon's, and Marakoopa. Unfortunately, the weather as taken it's toll on Marakoopa, and caused a land slide that was made access difficult, so the caves are currently closed. So, we went to King Solomon's and and a guided tour to show us all the stalacmites and stalactite formations. Very pretty caves. That afternoon, on our way to Cradle Valley, we took a little de...

Today, we wandered around Launceston. Must admit, that as it's Australia Day, everything is closed, so we headed up to Cataract Gorge, which is only minutes away from the city/town centre. Great place. Massive park land, and a lake you can swim in, all surrounded by the gorge. It wasn't even that busy. I couldn't help thinking that if the same place was in England, it would be awash with chav's and wasters, ruining it for everyone. Nothing of the kind in ...

As we leave St Helens, we make a quick detour to sea the Bay of Fires. Basically, an bay where all the rocks are covered in red lichen that makes them look ablaze. Unfortunately, it was a little overcast, so the effect was kind of lost on us. Next stop, was St Columbia falls, Tasmania's highest waterfall. Very pretty. On the way back to the highway, we pulled over to feed a pig some beer.