Country Club Tasmania

... and Queenstown. We arrived into Hobart and Check into our Bed and Breakfast, then drove up to the Cascade Brewery and spent 3 hours looking around the brewery then finished the night off with dinner and drinks at the Wrest Point & Country Club ...

... , Tasmania. Tasmania or Tassy as the natives call her is the smallest state in Australia and is separated from Australia by the Tasmania Sea. The sea has a reputation for being a bit rough, but our cruising luck aboard the White Lady luck still holds and ...

... , Tasmania. Tasmania or Tassy as the natives call her is the smallest state in Australia and is separated from Australia by the Tasmania Sea. The sea has a reputation for being a bit rough, but our cruising luck aboard the White Lady luck still holds and ...

... sunglasses, hat and scarf. This then is a short version of events until now. First an article I wrote for the Devonport(Tasmania) Fly fishing Club magazine "A Good Catch at the Bronte Camp 'It’s a platypus.....No it’s a duck.....No ...

... of the walk we stopped for a snack and a ride on the chair lift back across the river. Today we went off to Tasmania Zoo with Kira, one of Chelsea's friends from Kinder Primarily this was to see the Tasmanian Devils and buy some souvenirs that would ...

... is a Tewkesbury and even Bracknell as well as Stratford on the River Avon.   Our final destination in Tasmania was Launceston (pronounced Launceston). This is Tasmania's second city but still quiet and set by a dramatic river gorge ...

... laid back? We heard that there are only four areas that can legally grow Opium poppies and these are Turkey, Thailand, India and Sheffield Tasmania that are all licenced by the UN! How did that happen? Obviously there are all sorts of legal hoops to jump ...

... the first continually operating bookshop (Birchalls); first first class cricket match held in Australia (Victoria vs Tasmania, Tas won); first Turf Club; first underground sewage system in Australia; oldest railway (Launceston to Deloraine); first use of ...

... the day to ourselves today because the tour we've booked in to doesn’t start until tomorrow. It’s a 6 day Taste of Tasmania tour with Adventure Tours Australia. I’ve never taken a tour anywhere in the world, so it seems so strange ...

... ’. De foto’s Wil je zien hoe mooi Tasmani'' is? Kijk dan hier http://nicolekeijser.smugmug.com/Travel/Australia-Tasmania/12714568_BNn2N#1157726047_y4wAW Tot later, want we moeten nu naar de Australian Open in Melbourne! See you! Eduard & ...

... presentation on Friday night at the Parliament House.  We learned that Jim Bacon was a popular and reveared political figure in Tasmania until he died in 2004 from lung cancer.  It's made for some interesting conversation and Jim was the subject ...

... return to the area either later in this trip or next time; David is already talking about doing the follow-up fly-fishing school next year so Tasmania in January may become a regular feature on our calendar? Perhaps next time he may even catch a ...

We set off from Hobbit at 10am this morning to drive the 300km across country to Queenstown. There wasn't much hope this morning that Queenstown would amount to much because not even the Australia and New Zealand on a Shoestring book mentions this mining ...

... the next day. Just south of Lime Bay we visited Coal Mines Historic Site which is an unticketed, open, tasteful memorial to Tasmania’s convict past. The land is ocean front and today, cool, grey and cloudy you could sense the horror that these ...

The climb out of Strahan towards Hobart dealt us a few surprises, not the least being the snow-covered mountains and country-side along the Lyell Highway. The road cuts through Franklin-Gordon Wild Rivers National Park, giving us an opportunity to make ...

... down to the Club - more good music and dancing. The festival finished Sunday. Bill & Dinny left on Saturday to go on to Tasmania     Bill & Lesley left Sunday to go home to Wallaroo (near Adelaide). Janet & Brian left on ...

... was great to hear that, although in his mid 70's, he is playing again. We went to see a show he was doing at the Lane Cove Country Club and it was fabulous to see him play and also to meet up with Billy and Julie (ex brother and sister in law).  I ...

... indeed, people do stop and take photographs. In short, I loved the mountains and the streams.  I loved the Victorian High Country and Tasmania and the green farming areas of South Gippsland. In 2007 I fell in love with New Zealand with a short ten ...

... wussy pommie tourists, so I went to the nearest bar with most of the other train passengers - apart from, of course, the retired country-club set in their luxury sleeping cabins. After a few beers and a late night pizza it was all aboard to continue our ...