Bridport and the North Coast

After our day driving all over the eastern tip of Tassie, we headed along the north coast.  We started by heading out to the local lavender farm to grab ourselves the hottest item in Asia right now - the Bridestowe Bobby Bear! ABC Story On the way we drove past this little beauty on the side of the road and had to stop and ask the price. We've been admiring everyone else's camp fires in all the caravan parks. We were expecting to see them ask over $200 for it. $120 - Bargain!!

Having earlier stayed in Kelso, this time we checked out the eastern side of the Tamar River and headed up to George Town. There we saw another lighthouse and spent a lovely afternoon going through the local Maritime Museum.

It was full of whale bones and shipwreck relics and was quite interesting. The kids had been in the car for a few hours by the time we got to the museum, and sadly the older gentlemen who was volunteering on the door that day wasn’t too good at reading his audience. He wouldn’t let us into the museum without a lovely long lecture on the full history of George Town. It was quite fascinating but after a good 10 minutes I had to quietly excuse myself and the children before the two of them throttled the poor man! Thank goodness the first room had a thrilling HUGE whalebone display and the kids were soon thoroughly engrossed in that. And Dunc remained behind to hear the rest of the lecture…

From George Town we headed south along the Tamar to Launceston.