Tasmanian Holiday Day 1

The West Tamar Highway runs almost parallel with the Tamar River.

Tamar River

Along this highway there are many wineries but most of it are a few kilometer off the main road. It is unlike the wineries in Victoria, NSW where it is on the main road. Because it was late most wineries were closed.

Wineries

Driving up North we passed the town of Legana and Exeter before we stopped at Beaconsfield.

Beaconfield Town

Beaconsfield Mine

Beaconsfield General Store

This town came to the world attention in April 2006, after the collapse of the Beaconsfield mine when a minor earthquake rocked the small town of Beaconsfield, collapsing one of the tunnels in a local gold mine and trapping miners Larry Knight, Todd Russell and Brant Webb. Visit http://www.abc.net.au/news/newsitems/200604/s1627094.htm to read more of this tragedy.

It is a small town, nothing much to see except for the gold mine which was closed. We continue up North and stop at Tamar Cove Restaurant along the way to check what they had to offer. After checking the menu we find the prices were expensive. Half a crayfish approx. 250gm cost A$45.

Tamar Cove Restaurant

So we move on and arrived at Beauty Point. Here you can find the Sea Horse Centre but it was closed. We stopped at Tamar Yacht Club for a quick look before heading to Clarence Point. It was a cowboy town and we stopped and have a look at café cum pub. It was an untidy place and with a few rough people and it turned us off completely and got out of the town immediately. We drove back to the yacht club and had dinner there. The food was good and the pricing were reasonable. There were not much people, only 4 of us and another table of 4.

Tamar Yacht Club

Then we drove back into Lauceston and had a quick peep in the town. It was practically dead with no or little activities. After a few round of the town, we went back to the motel for an early night.