Holiday In Tasmania - Paging Miss Chicken!!!!

[Tulin]

My partner and I just booked our tickets to Tazzie for March of next year. We will be leaving Perth Sunday 7/3 and flying home Thursday 25/3. Part of the reason for the March holiday is I LOATHE summer and a nice 18 degree Tasmanian summer sounds LOVELY!!!

I have been doing a lot of study on line but I just wondered if anybody, particularly Miss Chicken could offer any advice for things to do in the Apple Isle.

We are already going to do the famous train ride(cannot recall what it is called right now), Port Arthur and have a couple of mini-golf places lined up and a miniature village in Richmond scouted.

Will it really be that nice and cool at the end of summer in Tasmania? What levels of accommodation are we looking at in the areas outside of Hobart and Launceston? Don't get me wrong - I am not a hotel snob by any means. All I want is cleanliness, comfort and privacy. I just heard, however that it gets somewhat rustic in the more rural areas.

 

[Jono]

The best advice I can give you is to bring a helmet to ward off Drop Bear attacks.

 

[M'Sharak]

The best advice I can give you is to bring a helmet to ward off Drop Bear attacks.

 

[Miss Chicken]

The best advice I can give you is to bring a helmet to ward off Drop Bear attacks.

We don't have drop bears in Tasmania. We used to but they were driven off by the Tasmanian Devils.

We are already going to do the famous train ride(cannot recall what it is called right now)

The Ida Bay Railway?

things to do -

Take the Le Frog Trike Tour of the Freycinet National Park.

Take the Tasman Island Cruise (there are other good cruises as well).

There is quite a lot to do in Richmond besides the Model Village. Plan to spend at least a half day at Richmond.

As far as accomodation is concerned looking up Hobart and other Tasmanian towns/cities on Tripadvisor would help.

If you like I can go into the Tourist Bureau and get pamphlets and post them to you.

Some activities that will be held in March are

Taste of the Huon (March 7th and 8th - maybe you could go on the 8th) - there are other things to do down the Huon such as the Tahune Airwalk and Tudor Village

Westbury St Patricks Day Festival

I will think of a few more things later in the day. I have to go out before long.

EDITED TO ADD - on your way down to Port Arhtur visit the Devil Park. Try to get there for feeding time.

 

[JuanBolio]

The best advice I can give you is to bring a helmet to ward off Drop Bear attacks.

The repellent! It does nothing!

*crawls back aboard his Starbridge and takes off, grumbling about the Auroran Empire*

 

[Tulin]

The best advice I can give you is to bring a helmet to ward off Drop Bear attacks.

That joke might have worked if I was a dumb American.

Fortunately, I am a dinky di Aussie.

Funny thing is, I used it on a bunch of Yanks almost ten years ago on a previous hangout and it got them ALL, hook, line and sinker.

Miss Chicken - I saw the Tahune Airwalk on a site last night. That looks GREAT!

 

[Miss Chicken]

We took my nephew and his new wifet o the Tahune Airwalk A couple of years ago.

Unfortunately we arrived at the same time as a same time as three or four busloads of people who were on a singing holiday. A few times during the walk they stopped walking and started singing and we had to wait until they finished because there was no room on the Airwalk to pass them.

And the height of the Airwalk freaked my nephew out. His wife and I were fine however.

 

[AliciaD496]

EDITED TO ADD - on your way down to Port Arhtur visit the Devil Park. Try to get there for feeding time.

That's so funny...when my family visited back in 1995 I think that's exactly the park we stopped at on the way to Port Arthur. We went through the aviary (lots of varieties of parrots!) and got to see our first Tasmanian Devils close up.

My Mom left something there so we stopped again on the way back to Hobart and they let my sister and me hold the wombat babies they had rescued. It was so cool. Definitely a neat park.

I also remember from my time in Hobart that there was a really cool farmers market with a lot of affordable souveneirs and things.

Sorry for the tangent, I just thought that was funny that I remembered visiting that park.

 

[Miss Chicken]

^^^Salamanca Market. It is held every Saturday and is only a few minutes walk from the city centre.