Week 4 Tassie

St Helens Harbour

Week four was pretty relaxed as we spent most of it at Scamander with little travel and plenty of relaxing. We found a pleasant resort complex in St Helens for Christmas dinner and enjoyed a sumptuous 3 course meal for $69 ph. Very good value and included prawns, smoked salmon and oysters. Met another Qld couple now settled in Tassie and had a great chat as we were missing the company of family. I believe it was only the second time we had spent a Christmas away from our clan.

St Helens area

The east coast was still relatively quiet until boxing day when the locals started to descend and the park started to fill up. We did some short trips around the back forestry tracks and a little bit of fishing but not much luck at the moment.
We were fortunate to see some of the Sydney Hobart fleet go past but not the winner.

Bicheno

After ten days it was time to move further south and try and find a dog friendly park as all of the free camps were full of locals. After a long day for us and 162km we found a park at Triabunna that had a vacancy and was dog friendly. Not the prettiest park in the world but would get us through until after new year and a chance to go back and see Coles Bay and some of the Freycinet Peninsular. The trip down was great as we saw Bicheno then  Swansea and the beautiful views across to The Hazzards a very striking mountain range on the Freycinet Pen.
Yesterday (30th) we drove down to Hobart to see Lupe ( former work colleague) and Seb her fiance. We met at Salamanca and had brunch with them and a great catch up. Salamanca was bustling with the yachts finishing the big race and Taste of Tasmania in full swing. Would have loved to enjoy it more but having Trixie in tow made it difficult so after a brief look around we headed back to camp via seven Mile Beach to check out our next dog friendly camp and then through the historical town of Richmond.

Brunch with Lupe

Lupe and Seb

A rushed shot of Hobart docks

We are looking forward to the next few week as we will do the Freycinet area then head to Hobart where there is a myriad of wonderful places to explore and some good pictures to be taken.