Coming For A Holiday, What To Do?

[Sarumatix]

ringing my car over and a little camping gear and doing a road trip sometime mid february. We were planning to go from Devonport around the centre to western regions stopping off at mole creek, Derwent Bridge, Strahn, up to Stanley before heading back to Devonport over 5 days.

Lots of advice for off roading and other such things, but not much for people who love to drive interesting roads and see great sights.

[Az_StrYdeR]

Is this your first trip to Tas? or have you been before? if so where have you been previously.

If its your first I personally would suggest doing the East Coast! It really is a magnificent area

[Medium Dave]

definatly east coast, stop in at frecinet for a couple of days - the camping facilities are good and the walks are fantastic. then maria island, fortisque, re stock in hobart then back up to cradle mountain.

[t01-100]

Bay of fires just out of St Helens has great camping too and great views.

[Young GT-R]

I agree, East Coast for sure.

If you go south to huonville and across to Gordon etc it's a nice windy road on the coast, nice driving.

Plenty of twisty roads but the east coast is the best scenery.

[grandmasterb]

Yep as the others have said you have to check out the east coast no matter what.

Frecient is great also fortisque and maria island isn't too shabby

As Benno said Bay of Fires is awesome, there are a few spots to tuck in and have a look at St Helens.

Honestly you could spend months down here camping, seeing the sites and doing a few trecks and all while driving some of the best twisties

[ydawak]

WEll I agree with the above mentioned. Just one thing. There have been fires here on the east coast. There is a fair bit of damage. The east is great but the west has some really nice roads. If you go to strahan. It is a real tourist town, so dont expect much to do unless you ahve money. You can go fishing down there though there are some really nice spots. Here are my recommendations for tassie.

FIRST = Come and see my fish farm (hehehehe free plug) it is called 41south and is outside of deloraine of mole creek road. (this is the common way that people go to strahan)

The next places i mention have free tastings and are all around the western tier area (Ashgrove farm cheese/ Anvers Chocolate/Chudleigh Honey farm) my farm is on the way to the honey farm.

When you are on the way west stop outside of rosebery and go and look at the Montizumna falls. They are the highest waterfall in tassie. Nice flat walk to get there.

Outside of Strahan there are the Henty dunes. Its about 3km of sand dunes (high ones) that go all the way to the beach.

Then there is Strahan. Its nice to look around and have a fish.

From strahan to hobart there is not a lot just about 350km of windy roads. (no gravel) there are the odd few trucks though.

When in hobart have a look at the mountain. They and be there on a saturday so u can go to salamanca market. Its a big market where u can drink eat and buy things. Its on the docks.

There are heaps of things to do in hobart it just depends on how much time you have.

When you hit the road again and go north/east Freycinett should be your next stop. It is a national park so u will need a parks pass to get the car in. Go to wineglass bay and the surrounding areas. They are reaaly nice. If it is warm have your bathers at the ready. You can always find a secluded beach to have a dip.

To be honest (and this is just my opinion there is not a lot to see from coles bay/freycinett back to launceston) go through the sideling (really cool and twisty road from scottsdale to launceston)

In Launceston the Cateract Gorge is a MUST. Free entry, you can go swimming in the pool or the gorge for free. there is the worlds longest single span chairlift and it is just a nice area. Other than that i cant think of any more things that i can highly recommend. I am sure there are other things to do but well this us just my 20 cents worth.

I hope that you have a great time here in tassie and that the weather is friendly to you.

one word of advise.

COME PREPARED FOR ANY TYPE OF WEATHER. it doesnt matter that it is summer we can still ahve snow. although feb - april is pretty good and warmish (depends what your used to)

Anyway thats it from me

can you tell i tell ppl about tassie a lot