Our final week in Tassie commenced with our journey from Snug up the Midlands Highway to Oatlands. This is another lovely old heritage town with a great free camp on the lake adjacent to the only operating flour windmill in the southern hemisphere.A very lazy couple of days here enabled us to do a mill tour and generally veg out. Life is tough on the wallaby.
From Oatlands we headed for our favourite caravan park on the Isle at Longford. Here we ran into Macca and Jan from about a month ago and our other "Boroma" friends Ron and Carmel. Another couple of days chin wagging and taking it easy so we headed up to Port Sorell only to find no dog friendly spots to camp. As it was so close to Devonport we decided to go there instead and found the Abel Tasman park at the mouth of the Mersey river and quite handy to the ferry terminal.
After a bit of a scout around town we decided to go back to Sheffield for a drive as we heard that the steam festival was on.
What a joy that was to see at least six working steam traction engines plus a small steam train. A great sight to see so much preserved heritage.
The evenings here in Devonport are spent walking along the river to the terminal to watch the ferry load and depart. Quite a sight and also a chance to wave farewell to friends made on this beautiful island.Today brings to an end our fabulous trip around Tasmania and it is quite sad to think that this time tomorrow we will not be here. We have so enjoyed the Tassie experience and should any of you be thinking of coming over for the first time, do it! Don't just come for a couple of weeks though as three months minimum is needed to enjoy it properly. We will be back without a doubt and next time would aim for a late January arrival.
We towed the van 2455 kms, stayed 79 nights and spent $1733 on accommodation. ( free camps were very busy over holiday period ) and we did 6516 kms in the cruiser.
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