Day 9 - Queenstown to Lake St Clair

After it rained hard all night we were pretty happy to spend the day on the famous APT train out of Queenstown. We had s fantastic experience. The trams was a mechanical engineering masterpiece. 

The train uses a central drive cog to climb and decend very steep grades

By the time we got back to Queenstown the rain had stopped and we headed for lake Saint Clair. On a very very windy road. 

Lake St Clair 

Mike the Pirate

We went to a play at Strahan. I got to be the pirate. An actor I am not.

Day 8 - Strahan to Queenstown

We made the short but fun jump to Queenstown today. The roads here are off the hook. We spent the day wandering around town including the museum and the Steam train shed. Tomorrow we are going on the scenic railway ride. Yippee 

The Queenstown moonscape 

The world famous gravel footy field. 

Day 7 - Rest day doing tourist stuff

Today we did a boat cruise that went to Macquarie heads, Sarah's Island then up the Gordon River. It was good

Then we went to a play and I got to be a pirate

Gordon River

Really interesting day visiting Sarah Island and 14 km ride up the Gordon River and saw lots of Huon pines.

Day 6 - the western explorer road

The western explorer road was worth coming to Tasi for. It's only 150 kms long and takes 3-1/2 hours but it's absolutely awesome. Only saw 3 vehicles the whole way. So remote and so beautiful it beggars belief. 

We is now in Strahan 

Crossing on the barge at Corrina

Good camp at Marrawah

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Day 5 - The west coast beckons

We left Stanley today to wander down the west coast. We stopped in Smithton for supplies before riding on down the western explorer trail. A couple of people in Stanley warned us about punctures on the bad dirt parts of the road, so we went and bought some more plugs just in case. 

We found a beautiful beach to camp at for the night. No shower but worth missing out just for the view. Tomorrow we head for Strahan. 

Black Spur Ride video

Day 4 - we climbed the nut

Rest day ? Not with Lisa. 3 hours of walking including a circumnavigation of the nut. Stanley is a lovely place. See below. I needed an arvo sleep after Lisa was finished with me. Tomorrow we go bush on the west coast for some real camping. 

View from the top of the nut

Under the pleasure dome

Day 3 - Devonport to Stanley

An early start was the order of the day. The ship woke us up a 5.45 but Lisa says she hadn't actually been asleep yet. I had a great sleep however I did wake a few times when the ship hit particularly big waves. I worried about gerti down in the hold. Was she tied down properly?

We rode off at 6.30 and headed for our favourite Devonport coffee shop. The Laneway cafe. After lots of coffee we hit the road and sculked our way up the coast visiting more coffee shops along the way. 

We arrived at Stanley and set up camp ready for Friday drinks

All is right with the world

Friday afternoon drinks in Stanley

Happy travels on Black Spur

Day 2 - back country victoria and black spur

Well there is no way we could handle the Hume highway for long so we let the gps take us on a merry dirt road adventure. We popped out at Alexandra for some lunch before heading toward Healesville via the famous black spur road. Unfortunately it was wet and slippery but still absolutely beautiful. 

After a quick visit with Bernd at Healesville we braved the traffic into port Melbourne. It was a wet peak hour hell. Arrived at the ferry tired cold and very wet. 

We had a nice dinner on board and settled into our little cabin for the night. Hopefully the gear will dry overnight. 

Hello we is on our adventure.

Our Tasi adventure begins

We are off to Tasmania for a 3-ish week bike ride. We left Bathurst today and headed for Albury. We had a late start as we were hoping the postman would deliver the hand warmers that have been on backorder for ages. I was in luck and fitted them up before we left. They will come in handy in Tasi at some stage I'm sure. We have until 6pm Thursday to make the ferry. We might try to fit in a ride through the mountains if time permits.