Coles Bay to Wynyard, North West Coast

It has been 14 days since our last entry and it was time I let my fingers glide over this keyboard, well I mean two fingers, since my last entry we certainly have not sat still, we have moved from Coles Bay on the East to Wynyard in the West.

The weather in this time has been from outright freezing to nice and warm so we could swim and yesterday I fullfilled a desire by swimming in the Gorge at Launceston but I am getting ahead of myself.

So to fill in the spaces, here is where we have been. We traveled from Coles Bay to a free camp just past St Helen called Cosy Corner, a great spot if the weather had been nice and it would have been just that cosy but alas cold wet and no sun.

Cosy Corner rough Seas

So we went sight seeing and saw a few great places and interested houses

Mathina standard housing

in a place called Mathina as shown, went over some fairly rough terrain and logging tracks to see a great waterfalls.

Logging in Tasmania

Mathina Falls

Tuesday 3rd of march Scottsdale and the weather changed to sunny but cold at night we had 0 degree on one of our stays here, but who cares.

Scottsdale Free Camp

Tree Carvings Scottsdale

Chinamans Tin Mine Memorial

Chinamans Tin Mine we spent an interesting 2 hours here soaking up the history of the ways tin was mined and how the chinese where the main miners in those early days.

Pommier Ghost Town

Top right corner the size of the town of Pommier in those days

Visit to the Blue Tiers, what acountry side this was with the town off Pommier, the size of Melton in the 1850 and now only a treeless vally where houses used to be and the Wallybies now keeping the grass short see photos, a ghost town.

During this drive we also visited a water fall and a tin stamper great day.

Stampers in the bush

Well of to Devonport into a park, washing cleaning etc for the day.

Travel from here to Cradle Mountain and visited Sheffield the town of Muralls,

Tasmazia the Great Maze

on to Gowrie Park for two days the park with a backyard of Mountains,

Murals depicting the building of the Hydro Scheme this mural is 93 meters long

visited Cradle mountain

saw the Tasmanian Devils fed

Devils feeding

Back to Launceston to visit George town

Wood Chipping

The Wood Chipping Mill

George Town

and the Cataract Gorge to swim as I have already mentioned on a great warm day have now left that behind and moved to to the west and are in Wynyard in a small park after a day of very haevy rain but more next time.

End of a busy day