Today was moving on day once again, so the usual routine kicked in. Pack everything away again (amazing how much we can spread ourselves out in a room after just two days), move it to the car and squeeze it all in. Then back to the room again to check once, twice and a third time just in case we have left anything – we hadn’t (we think!). From there we...
Cradle Mountain National Park was apparently used for the filming of the documentary When Dinosaurs Roamed America. This only misrepresents the park in two ways, but both are fairly fundamental – firstly it is Tasmania and not America and secondly there are no dinosaurs. However, it is easy to see why they wanted to use it – it is pristine untouched...
Around 9am the Spirit of Tasmania squeezed its way down the Mersey River and into Devonport and fairly slickly we disembarked. From there the first stage went according to plan – the pre-loved car (pre-loved to the tune of 300,000km!) was waiting for us just a couple of minutes walk away and so we headed for the Devonport Information Centre. This stage was more...