Woo Hoo Tassie here we come

We just got back from Tassie. Big difference in temp between Tassie and Brissy. We saw snow (January) on top of Cradle Mount when we climbed it. Not much but snow in January all the same.
However I don't envy you at all having to tow your van. Lots of mountains to drive over and around. Straight roads are very few and far between. I spoke to one older couple who wished they had brought a tent however there were lots of people towing all the same. I had to laugh at one bloke. He's towing a tri-axle van with an old Hilux!!! His missus said they were finding it a bit of a struggle ROFLMAO.

Best tip I think would be to call ahead and book a van site (if using van parks) on the morning you travel to the site or the night before as we had trouble due to tourist season and daylight savings. As we often were out taking advantage of the light til 9pm only to find that some offices close at 7pm and the busier places are full anyway.

I'm sure you'll have heaps of fun.

You lucky bugger a beautiful place and if you want snow go to Cradle Mt they got buckets load of it there. If you can the west coast is great and the east too as specially around the Bay of Fires just magic, enjoy mate you'll love it.

Baz.

Hope you have a great time.

We got back to Brisbane last week after five weeks in Tassie.

Fantastic place. Already made airline and hotel bookings for a short visit next December / January.

We didn't have any problems getting accomodation anywhere except during the christmas / new year silly season. Up till Christmas Day, no worries at all.

If the map shows that a trip should take an hour, double it to allow for the winding roads, and double it again to allow for the interesting things you'll see on the way.

Strahan to Queenstown - 39 kilometres , 296 bends in the road, and three straight bits. If you're towing a van, it will be in your side mirrors a lot more than in your rear-view mirrors.

Best things we bought were the jackets we bought on the spirit - the same ones the 'Spirit' staff were wearing. We'd been told how cold it could be, but were still totally unprepared.

Snowed on us December 27th on Mt Wellington.

Plenty of snow higher up in the Hartz area early January.

Unfortunately I've gone straight to Mount Isa for work. One extreme to the other.

I kept an online journal throughout our trip. Only got slack about updating it in the last week on the way home.

http://www.users.on.net/~pancho/index.htm