Tuesday, 27 June 2023

St Helens, Tasmania

St Helens is the largest town on the north-east coast of Tasmania, Australia, on Georges Bay.  It is known as the gaming fishing capital of Tasmania and is also renowned for its oyster as are other areas of Tasmania.  The town is about 160 km east of Launceston and takes about 2 and 1/2 hours to get there.  The highest temperature record there was 41.8 deg C (107.2 F) in a January but the graph doesn't say what year!

St Helens is a popular holiday place because of it's many beaches. 
We visited the fish shop below a few times when we stayed there in summer and bought fish to cook in the caravan.
We are going to sell the caravan and it's been taken to caravan place to be sold, it might take awhile before it sells, but who knows really.  So I suppose we will still visit places and stay in Motels, Apartments of something like when ever we feel like it.

 



Down by the sea above and below in the caravan park. Several cabins are painted on the outside as below.



The Amenities block above, ever so clean with showers, toilets and a separate laundry.



A couple of children stopped to have a conversation near us.


Friendly bird who came to visit often - taken with my phone.

Friday, 23 June 2023

Freycinet National Park

These captures were taken at Freycinet National Park on the East Coast of Tasmania. 
The hills or Mountains are called the Three Hazards.
Behind the Hazards is Wine Glass Bay, the Bay being the shape of a wine glass.  It's quite a walk and lots of stairs to see the view and no road into it.  To stand on the beach you go by boat.
The photo is borrowed.

The town near here is called Coles Bay and it was the first place in the WORLD to BAN plastic shopping bags in April 2003.