travels in Australia

We are about to leave on another campervan adventure (driving from Melbourne to Adelaide and back), so I thought I might post a little more about Tasmania. Every two days or so we had to stay in a powered site to charge up the campervan and there were two very different types of places to stay. One was the sort of corporate caravan park, like Longford Caravan park, where the showers were coin operated and supposedly you get 3.5 minutes per coin, though more like 3 min, and you park on asphalt and it is very impersonal. The other type was the quirky offbeat caravan park - I much preferred these and the best was Quamby Corner - free showers, free laundry, beautiful scenery, cooking facilities like you were at home. There were people who had been there for some time. Several dogs. It was just a really great place.

It was at Quamby we met a woman driving around Tas for 6 months w her little dog and she told us about wikicamps which ended up being the best app ever for finding out about places to camp. The other non-corporate caravan park we stayed in was Left of Field, so named because it is just to the left of Mt Field, which is a National Park. It did not have showers of laundry, but it was very scenic and had nice bathrooms. Originally we were going to stay in a free space w no bathrooms, but we decided the small amount of money was well worth it and drove just a little further down the road.

From Left of Field, Charles and I hiked to Russell Falls which was stunning and an easy hike. At this point there were three of us in the campervan and I will say the campervan might be able to fit three, but it is designed for two. It was still good. Here is a photo of the falls:



There was a river close to the campground that had a platypus in it.