Wineglass Bay/Hazards Beach Circuit and Narawntapu National Park, Tasmania

Under a dull sky promising rain, Vilis and I broke camp at Richardson’s Beach and drove to the trailhead of the Wineglass Bay Track, which is also the start of the Wineglass Bay/Hazards Circuit....

Salamanca Market and Freycinet National Park, Tasmania

In lifting darkness, we drove from Fortescue Bay toward Hobart, startling Tasmanian macropods into bounding quickly into vegetation alongside Tasman National Park’s gravel access road. Out on th...

Tasman National Park’s Bivouac Bay, plus Remarkable Cave, Tasmania

Light rain overnight pattered gently on the tent at our campsite at Fortescue Bay, and we heard an unidentified critter sniffing at our thin-walled shelter in the night. Vilis cooked hot porridge for ...

To Hobart and Fortescue Bay, Tasman National Park, Tasmania

In an about-face from the past five days of brilliantly sunny weather, the sky was cloudy with clear breaks over Melbourne’s Tullamarine Airport when our Jetstar flight sped down one of the airportâ...