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To Tasmania by Motorbike

23.02.2018
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In 2014 I spent a few days in Tasmania, riding about 5 thousand km on a motorcycle on and off-road.

Tasmania is an island, to understand where exactly it is you need to imagine Australia. Australia, as we know, is the middle of nowhere, so from this middle of nowhere it takes another night to sail on a ferry - these are fairly accurate coordinates of the place by which you can find Tasmania on any globe in Moscow.
This is the 8th state of Australia, which occupies only this island

So, having set off from Sydney to Melbourne, 900 km from home, and having set aside 10 hours for the journey, I arrived safely 40 minutes before the ferry to Tasmania departed. Actually, you can get to Tasmania in three ways - by ferry, by plane or by sailing to the island yourself - it's only 400 km, no more.
The ferry goes there under the grandiose name Spirit of Tasmania, with a departure from Melbourne at 7-30 pm and a sail to Devonport in Tasmania at 6 am. In the summer, another daytime trip is added from 6 am to 9 pm.

your transport is loaded there too. You are given a choice of seats or reclining places, depending on your needs. The ticket price starts from $70 for a seated *airplane* seat and from $75 for a motorcycle each way. Prices are set at random, there are often discounts and promotions, so the final price is highly variable - the same bed can cost from $70 to $200, on different days.

A compartment for 4 people looks something like this, each compartment has a shower and toilet.

my route was not very well thought out, completely without reservations for campsites and hotels (although I had planned them in advance) and changes were made to it during the course of the play, which did not always come from me. The final route looked something like this

In general, Tasmania is a pretty cool island in terms of size. It is famous for its absolutely crazy nature and reserves. Well, and a bunch of historical attractions. In general, I came to the conclusion that if you end up in Australia as a tourist and there is a time limit, then forget about Australia and go to Tasmania - it is fucking awesome. But you definitely need to do this by car (there are many rentals there). And even better, by jeep. And even better, like an adult, on a motorcycle - that is how you will be granted complete peace of mind, dzen. and dzen.

Tasmania is micro Australia, only better.

Tasmania is most similar to Scandinavia, albeit after a long mutation of nature.

You have an amazing opportunity to go from +30 to +6 during the day, yeah. From the ocean to the mountains with snow. Or maybe I was just lucky with the weather, I don't even know.
a change in terrain from the flat coast to the mountains

In Tasmania you can also eat local oysters in almost any cafe and there are many wineries there – you can just get drunk and taste everything.

The first thing I came across was the national park and the Liffey Falls, a cascade of several waterfalls in the mountains

then I moved to Launceston - the second largest city on the island, a rather beautiful town, somewhat similar to small Scandinavian towns

By the way, there is a museum of cars and motorcycles there. It is quite small, but with a couple of interesting specimens. In order not to clutter it with photos, I have it in a separate post in my LJ.