Tasmania is very beautiful so we try to go down there almost every year. The gap after our 2021 trip stretched to three years, however, before we visited again recently. We spent time in several favourite reserves and national parks and discovered a couple of new ones. I will write about these soon, adding links here when I do so:
- Mount Field is one of our oldest favourite places in Tasmania but has inexplicably (unforgiveably!) not been featured here before. Russell Falls and the lower section are so different from the alpine section (Lake Dobson and beyond) that we have split our coverage.
- Lime Bay, on the north-west tip of the Tasman Peninsula, was new to us. It’s well off the beaten track but it’s very pretty.
- Mayfield Beach is a small but pleasant camping spot tucked between the road and the bay, between Swansea and Orford.
Very little has changed in these others, however, since our previous visits so we can avoid some duplication by simply pointing readers to older articles about them:
- Freycinet Peninsula National Park
- Friendly Beaches and Cape Tourville lighthouse and Sleepy Bay near Freycinet, including Rocks River Road free camping site and Moulting Lagoon RAMSAR wetlands. The only significant change is at Friendly Beaches, where barriers and signs announce that it’s ‘temporarily closed’ to camping but give no indication of when it might re-open.
- kunanyi / Mount Wellington in 2020. There’s another older post here, too.