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St Helens
Travel Blogs from St Helens, Australia
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Bay of Fires
This is a top pick! Played settlers last two nights Cookies every night Guest book entries asking about cookies, arguements over pros cons for TV Homely feel Going to Bay of Fires spots ...
Heartland Tasmania - big day out in little island
This is a top pick! It was supposed to be a big event for St Helen's on Tasmania's east coast: a gala with sports events. Something for locals and for the many out of towners holidaying on Tassie's Gold Coast. But not everybody was in a holiday mood. At least, not the ...
Tas-Mania
This is a top pick! ... (their names are Nadine, Juliane and Judith if any of you care) in favor of him. Basically he's been wandering around Australia for a couple decades now and has had several newspaper articles written about him. On top of being a really friendly guy, the ...
Wizard Smith's Volcano
This is a top pick! ... his tail between his legs, we had no choice but to roll our eyes and pay up. Like most incidental towns you pass through St Helens was dead by 9pm - no food or entertainment (not even street lights) so we were stoked to find a dim glow amongst ...
Second best beach in the world?
... it didn't look too different to biscuits we get back home but I sure wasn't complaining). The rain didn't stop and we got to St Helens and drove out to the Bay of Fires. The sand was gorgeous and I'm sure the sea would have looked much nicer on ...
St Helens
On our way to St Helens we popped into City Park where we watched some amusing Japanese Macaque monkeys performing their usual monkey tricks for us. The first monkeys we have ever seen swimming or washing their food before they eat it even (more ...
East Coast Tassie
Our drive south to Hobart along the east coast was a little short-lived after rain ended play, at which point Em (driving) and Bobbi (navigating) dispensed with the approval committee, Stephen and Dan (asleep in the back) and bypassed most sights in ...
St Helen's Glass has the class
... to smell too much then I will throw him in the shower until he either melts or gets clean, but I am sidetracking too much... St Helens was desolate - it's obviously a super-popular tourist destination in the summer (Nov-Feb) but as soon as it gets out ...
Sweet, saintly, St Helens!
... in the sunshine... watching some crazy kids trying to convince themselves it was NOT as freezing as it felt in the water! It was. St Helens had been recommended to us by a number of people, and we were planning on staying here at some point, but decided ...
Tassie tour day 5: St Helens to Launceston
Binalong Bay, a 20 minutes drive away from St Helens at the southern end of the Bay of Fires, was originally an old fishing hamlet, but was recently voted the second best best in the world after someplace in the West Indies. As it was too dark to ...
Gorgeous Tasmania
... Rob would want to follow me to NZ he didnt get it either!! Its worked out really well for us in the end, we headed east to St. Helens (fishing capital of Tas and an old whaling town) and Rob found a job within 24 hours. He is working in a 4 star ...
Eastern Coast of Tasmania
So.... spent a night in St. Helens, next day travelled to The Bay of Fires, so called as when it was 'discovered' allot of the local Aboriginals were found having fires here, anyway, again more beautiful beaches, and although BLOODY cold, these were ...
Back in the UK and of no fixed abode
Okay !! So we left Bermuda 6 weeks ago and since then we haven't got around to updating our blog to let anyone know what we have been up to ( bar those people that have seen us of course), so here goes... Lets see if we can make this ...
Temporarily back in the UK
Well we made it back to the UK in one piece and on arriving at Manchester had our first lost luggage incident....you could have put money on that one ! All he way around the planet and some of our bags disappear in Heathrow's Terminal 5 - but they ...
Wallabies and Goon
... in the afternoon at Wineglass Bay. Bidding adieu to the owner in the morning we set off through Bushfire-scarred scenery towards St. Helens, making a quick stop to check out the huge sand dunes that are a feature of the area. The inclement weather ...
St. Helens, Ansons Bay, Launceston ....
In St. Helens muste mein Auto leider in die Werkstadt - 800 Dollar. Hoffendlich haelt es jetzt ...
Day 5 - Tasmania
Drove up the coast on Tasman Highway, but spent an hour at Richmond at the oldest bridge in Australia built in 1823 then stop of at a blow hole 2 hours up the ...
Bay of Fires and Mount William National Park
Bonjour a tous, au programme de ces quelques jours dans la baie of Fires et le Mount William NP, des plages de reves au rochers rouges sang, une eau ideale pour se baigner, une rencontre avec un phoque faisant la sieste au soleil, bref des bons moments ...
Flamin' Roads en route to Bay of Fires!
... ! It’s so mountainous here and the roads twist and turn negotiating their way around the mountains. We arrived at St. Helens where we made a petrol stop before continuing up to the Bay of Fires. On the way to Bay of Fires we passed ...
St Helens
St Helens again. We had a lovely - and increadibly expensive meal at the harbour, Davo managed to consume so much food and drink it equated to more than the cost of our accomodation for 3 of us for the night! Still, he did love it. That was about it, ...
Tassie tour day 4: Cradle Mountain to St Helens
... during the 4 hours it took us to get to St Helens :- ( We got a pitch at the Hillcrest Tourist Park on St Helens Point, a short walk away from the beach, enjoyed a final slap-up campervan meal using everything that was left in the fridge then ...
St Helens and Bay of Fires
22-23 Feb - St Helens and the Bay of Fires Ahh, pretty St Helens - shame the weather isn't too great. We stop in town to stock up on food supplies to take out to our bush campsite at Swimcart Beach in the Bay of Fires National Park. Here we find our ...
St Helens
... hour drive and fine and pretty uneventful but we ended the day in the NE- we are really covering the whole distance of tassy! St Helens is ncie and we got a really good appartment in the centre. i cooked the lovely steak meal I bought in Launceston ...
Closing Time
Pega num mapa. As cidades são os pontinhos maiores com as letras grandes, a negrito. Na Tasmania?! Nada disso. As "grandes cidades" são aldeias. As “cidades” são terras. As vilas são parques de estacionamento. As aldeias são ruas, becos ...
Ready to jet off - next stop Rio...
So here we are - the last posting from blighty ! We've no idea where the past weeks have gone they've really flown by but we're now all packed and ready to get on the first flight tomorrow.... Wishing a Happy New Year to all and hope you have had a ...
East Coast of Tasmania
... more of the same for the next 36 hours, so staying at Freycinet didn’t sound too exciting. We headed further north to St. Helens, a very pleasant seaside town. We stocked up at the food market and liquour store and then set out to find a ...
Freekin freezin in Tassie
... was no body around but what were we to care, took our time gettin around and stayed in the only backpackers that was open in St Helens. The other one was closed because it was winter. We went to wine glass bay which was class and almost had the whole ...
Day 242 - The Birth Suite
... a wet patch on the back seat was where the previous user had had a baby! Our car was a shit heap but it made it to St. Helens although it took Ben a while to get to grips with the column gear shift. Upon arrival, we had an excellent pizza before finding ...
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