Tuesday, March 13, 2018

My second day in Tasmania, from Bridport, via Scottsdale to St. Helen, the Bay of fires,Bicheno, Freycinet National Park, Coles bay, Swansea, Oxford, Triabunna and Hobart



After a healthy breakfast I started toward the East coast around 9 am, it is cold in the morning I needed several layers, all the way to the coast is farm country and then a small mountain chain is crossed after Scottsdale, making it an ideal motorcycle road, surrounded by rain forest, until S. Helen appears on the coast, and then I decided to drive North about 15 km, to Bilagong bay aka. Bay of fires, which was well worth it, it is beautiful, with white sand beaches.
Then I followed the coast to Bicheno, and you go inland about 17 km and you find a secluded Bay of Coles, at the feet of three rocky formations, beside the Freyzinet National park where you can eat fresh oysters and musselsand if you are young and ambitious you can hike to Wine glass bay, there is no road.
All these bays are at dead ends and you have to go back to the coastal road, the views continue as you are following the coast, every town has its bay, you see pelicans and black swans swimming together.
The highway is busy with tourists, campers, cyclists motorcyclists and trucks, the speed limit is 100 km/hr and in a motorway this speed feels slow, but in a narrow and curvy road actually at times it feels too fast and you have to be very careful with all of them but specially with the cyclists and the big trucks which always invade your side over the midline either with their front or with their rear wheels.
Tomorrow in Hobart I will try to see as much as possible, I am staying at the Orana House, built and own by the son of a british convict, it is comfortable, well located, with excellent free Wi Fi and as a good B&B offers a good breakfast.
On Thursday the 15th, I will take a flight to the South West coast and the Malelucan islands, it includes lunch and a boat ride and has been highly recommended.

1 comment:

  1. Me da gusto encontrarte por este medio y asi poder participar de tus viajes a través de tu narrativa amena y muy interesante. Seguiré pendiente de tus publicaciones, saludos desde TJ

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