Tasmania is a fabled land of vast and untamed natural landscapes, sparsely populated by one of the most kind and welcoming people on the planet. If you want intensely experience this natural paradise, but still want to come around, the best way to do this is definitely by bicycle. The island is crisscrossed by a [...]

From Gladstone we took the road to Bridport, on Tasmania’s northern coast. Like so many other coastal towns Bridport is a popular summer holiday tourist destination and offers beaches, safe swimming and a whole host of water sports. In 2004 Bridport also became a popular destination for golfers and from the town you can get [...]

One of the more major towns on the Eastern Coast of Tasmania, St Helens has grown from a small fishing village into a popular tourist town and has built a reputation as the ‘game fishing capital of Tasmania’. The fact that St Helens has a nice selection of hotels was our main influence for stopping [...]

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 [...]

Maria Island is a small mountainous island situated off the East Coast of Tasmania and for such a compact place it has quite a varied and interesting history! Now though, the whole of Maria Island is a national park and a popular destination for eco tourists, though there are some things you will need to [...]

There’s only one way to leave the Tasman Peninsula (by road anyway) and that’s the way you came in! Still it was nice to travel back along the peninsula through the places we had stopped on the way – Tasman National Park, Eaglehawk Neck and the famous Dog Line, through Dunalley and on to Copping, [...]