A sneaky visit to Tassie ...

And so to our final day travelling and exploring Tassie (well for this trip). We left lovely Launceston and began heading south towards Hobart. The drive from end to end was 200 km long and google maps said it would take 2 and a half hours ... however we never just go from A to B! There are so many beautiful towns along the highway filled with so much history. We used Ad Labs to stop along the way, to be taken to some historic buildings, bridges, a convict trail and even some quirky topiaries.  We stopped at Evandale, Campbell Town, Ross, Oatlands, Kempton and Pontville.  At Evandale we stopped at the local market which was very odd with lots of old junk but the most fabulous Sudanese donuts! We learned about Harold Gatty who served in WWI and went on to establish Fiji Airways, about the artist John Glover who has art hanging in The Louvre, a water tower that (whilst it is no longer functioning) still holds water to maintain the structure, and played with a sundial that was sp...

Today, we were based in Launceston, and my trusty travel buddy had organised our day for us by trawling through the Ad Lab app, the travel brochure I had picked up at the airport and a little googling. We headed out at about 8.30 and with the morning being a little cooler headed straight to Cataract Gorge. When we arrived we discovered that there was going to be a massive music festival there later today so we were very happy to have headed there first! We hiked the upper section of Basin Lake before heading on to Cataract Walk - a gentle, paved walk that took us to Kingston Bridge.  It was a lovely gentle amble amongst the granite, passing alongside the river as it tumbled over the rocks. The suspension bridge over the lake gives you beautiful views both up and down the gorge. Reaching the end of the walk we crossed over the river to Penny Royal, a mini adventure park/historical park. It is filled with history of Van Diemen's Land and we stopped in to complete the Cliff Walk ... w...