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| View of Hobart from Mt.Wellington |
We spent a week in Hobart looking at beautiful early settler homes and historic buildings and also the surrounding area visiting beaches, wild coastlines and tiny villages. The weather was good but it wasn’t until the last day that we got a hot and cloudless day to go up to the top of Mt. Wellington which towers over the city to a height of 1270 metres so even on the best of days it’s cool up there. The views are spectacular!
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| Oatlands, Tasmania |
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| Carrington Mill, Oatlands 1837 |
There are so many townships with old sandstone houses, old pubs and buildings you just can’t stop at them all so our next camp spot was at Oatlands, typical of the area and by-passed by the highway so it has kept much of its character. The town is dominated by a stone windmill tower, the mill has been restored and produces flour once again.
The next stop was Ross, another historic town by a river with a beautiful old bridge with intricate stone carving built by convict masons in 1856.
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| Part of Pearn's traction engine collection, Westbury |
On to Westbury to camp behind the bakery this time. As well as the old buildings, this town has an excellent steam museum. The Pearn family owned and used many of the steam engines and collected others from the area as they went out of use by the 1950’s and saved them from becoming useless rusty relics. It is the biggest collection of operational steam traction engines in the southern hemisphere.
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ReplyDeleteMy Name is Mark Knowles, I’m a Journalist for Caravan and Motorhome On Tour Magazine.
We’re constantly on the lookout for photos of people on the road with their rig to feature in the magazine.
I was looking at your wonderful blog and saw some of your great pictures and wanted to ask if you could email me some so we could put them in the magazine.
We’re only too happy to send you a copy of the magazine if we use one of your pictures, and of course, we can attribute the image to you.
It’s always fun to see yourself and your rig on the pages of the magazine and share your experiences with other RV enthusiasts.
Right now I’m working on an article about some popular touring routes around Australia, with a focus on where you can find some great free-camping spots.
I see you have travelled to some of the area’s I’m hoping to feature and would love to get some photos of you at any of the free-camping spots you have stayed at in these regions.
At the moment I’m hoping to find some pics in areas including northern and outback QLD, Tassie, south-west WA, the Murray River region, NSW south coast and the Eyre Peninsula in SA.
So if you’ve got any photos of your travels in any of these places, I’d love it if you could send them in.
Please tell us a bit about where you are and what you liked about the spot as well.
Like I said, we’re always after photo’s, so even if you don’t have any for these particular places, I was hoping to put you on my contact list and maybe contact you again in the future about upcoming stories.
We always prefer pics with people in them, whether it’s yourselves or some friends you made along the way, and we also love to see your rig, so please keep that in mind when you’re looking for pics to send.
Don’t hesitate to contact me for a chat or if you want any more info, I’m always happy to hear from RVers and have a chat about their travels and tips.
Fell free to pass on this letter to any of your RVing friends as well, I’d like to hear from as many people as possible.
Please send any photos in the highest quality file size you have, as they will look much better on the printed page, you might have to send them one at a time to get them through.
Thanks for your time, and I look forward to hearing from you and seeing some of your pictures soon.
Best Wishes,
Mark
Mark Knowles
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