Tasmania – Part 2

Returning to Hobart from New Zealand

Returning on 23rd December, we drove straight down to Kayena in order to spend Christmas with friends.

Tasmania – Part 1

After our return from Fiji we picked up the camper in Brisbane and spent two weeks slowly heading south towards Melbourne where we’d be catching the ferry boat to Tasmania.

Coastal Roads

Whale feeding

We’d decided to spend our last 4 weeks in Queensland returning to Brisbane via coastal roads.

Return Down Under

Not a good idea to watch “The Walking Dead” whilst in the Outback on a deserted campsite!

After 6 months in Asia, the final month spent on Bali staying at the rather swish Maya Hotel , we flew to Brisbane.  For the first time we used Virgin Australia and what a wonderful flight experience that was!  We stayed for two chilly, rainy days, made worse by the fact that we had no weather appropriate clothing with us (we’d left all our cold weather gear in the camper on departing Australia for S/E Asia).

Outback Adventures

Outback dining

Leaving Queensland and driving South into New South Wales we very nearly became the dumb tourists who underestimate the vast distances between “towns”. It would have been very embarrassing to run out of diesel in the middle of the Outback!!!

A lot of “Firsts”

Dinner’s up!

We left Redcliffe, Brisbane with no real plan. What we hadn’t realised was that the day we chose to set off coincided with the start of a long weekend, consequently the roads were packed with families heading out to the coast.