Tasmanian Road Trip Day 1

Day 1 of our road trip

Due to our house turning into a building site because we're having our bathroom renovated, we decided to leave the builders to it and take a road trip around our new home state. We moved to Tasmania just over a year ago (26 July 2022) settling in Beaconsfield in the Tamar Valley, north of the state's second biggest city, Launceston. Actually, calling Launceston a city is a bit of a stretch, as a lot of towns in the UK are bigger, and my birth town, Basingstoke, is about twice the size of Launceston!

Penguin is a small seaside town on the northern Tasmanian coast that is crazy about penguins!

So yesterday, we took a leisurely drive across the north coast from our central position westward. The drive started by cutting inland, skirting Narawntapu National Park, but then catching the coast at Devonport where the Spirit of Tasmania sails to Victoria which was how I'd come to Tasmania last year. From Devonport, it was a mostly coastal drive, including a coffee stop at the picturesque seaside town of Penguin. We arrived at our destination, Stanley mid afternoon, and settled into our hotel, and explored a little. We are staying here a few days, hoping to get to Arthur's River and the Edge of the World coastline before heading south on the next stage of the journey.

Penguin's fabulous Uniting Church

Rocky Cape National Park

This really cool Exchange Library apparently appeared in Penguin in 2019 and has been here since!