Following the coastal road north of Bicheno there are quite a number of interesting places to stop en-route as you make your way to the larger town of St Helens. Douglas Apsley National Park Just a short distance north of Bicheno is Douglas Apsley National Park. You could well spend several days here, enjoying the [...]

The town of Bicheno sits on the coast just above the far northern end of the Freycinet National Park, and makes for an interesting stop off on our tour. Depending on where you spent the previous night, you may like to choose Bicheno for a good night’s rest – there are certainly plenty of hotels [...]

At the gateway to the Freycinet Peninsula is the small town of Coles Bay. With its permanent population of less than 500 people, the town swells under the pressure of thousands of tourists visiting each year. But the town is well prepared for this large influx of people and there are a number of hotels [...]

Marking the entrance to the mouth of Great Oyster Bay is the seaside town of Swansea. Swansea has a number of attractions to convince visitors to stay for more than just a passing glance – it’s a historic town and as well as benefiting from Great Oyster Bay there are also wonderful views across the [...]

This coastal drive between Orford and the Freycinet Peninsula gives travellers some of the most stunning coastal scenery in the whole of Australia. This is the kind of journey which should be savoured and remembered for years to come, therefore we hadn’t set ourselves any time limits; we planned to amble along, stopping at places [...]