After spending a day in Launceston, we headed east to St Helens on the Northeast coast. The drive past the Blue Tier range was lovely. The countryside around Sheffield seemed out of place in Australia. Through Scottsdale and the forestry museum and on to St Helens. St Helens was a real seaside/fishing town.After St Helens, we drove for a few hours down the east cost to Swansea and the Freycinet Peninsula for an overnight stay in an old B&B.
This quite remote part of the island would be a good place to stay and expore for a few days. Unfortunately we were on a tight schedule and had to keep driving the next day to get to our booked accomodation in Hobart.
It's an indication of the normally cooler climate of Tasmania that the day we drove along the Tasman Highway, through some high country (top picture), it was only about 25C, but the tar on the road was actually melting! On the mainland, the roads don't usually melt even in temperatures above 40C, so we were lucky to get the weather we had I guess.
Forestry Museum in Scottsdale
Fishing boats in St Helens
View of the Freycinet Peninsula from Coles Bay
Swansea township from the jetty. The B&B is the one with the red roof
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