Heya Straya

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