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Tassie Top 5

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I have to be honest. I didn’t totally love Tasmania as much as I thought I would and it’s for one simple reason. We chased the sun around the country and timed Tasmania for the peak of their summer and it’s still cold! Their beaches are stunningly beautiful… so incredibly inviting... but absolutely freezing! After a huge hike you can tolerate a refreshing dip but those Antarctic waters and cool winds lets Tassie's pole position down a level. That’s not so say don’t go, there's incredible sights to see and amazing adventures to be had, just rug up! Wild wild west The west is wild. I don’t think I’ve even used the word wilderness before so didn’t really know what it meant. We saw more roadkill on our west coast drive than we have the whole way around Oz. It is like the final frontier: still clean air and water, thick forest, wild animals, natural beauty, undeveloped and all because of the unfavourable weather – W-I-N-D-Y! Country folk The centre is all farm-land, think Eng
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Peaking at Mount Kosciusko

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Peaking it The best days are those unexpected ones, with no expectations. I’m famous for hyping something up only to be bitterly disappointed if it’s not as awesome as I thought it would be. Movies, TV shows, parties, food… yes, food is a big one. The things I genuinely boast about are indeed, unknown or unplanned things, that element of wonderful surprise. Of course, I’ve heard of Mount Kosciusko, the highest mountain in Australia, but I didn’t realise we’d be visiting it on our lap. I had my must-see list sorted long before we left: Whitsundays, Port Douglas, the Daintree Rainforest. John had his list, Fraser Island, Cape York, Tasmania (next week – yeehaa!!!) Going to Mt Kosciusko was not on my radar at all so loving it and putting at amongst the top of our stops has come as a very welcome, wonderful surprise. It felt like I was in a scene from a Camp USA brochure. I don’t want to peak too early, with much of our trip still to go, but at this moment I have the overwhelming urg
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