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Big Ted in Tassie

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Diesel:
Alright Taswegians... Big Ted is currently doing his lap of Tassie and would probably welcome a quick G'day coffee or lunch or other from his OzSTOC buddies.


I am meeting him again to ride/camp the West Coast, and would welcome here in the commentrs any recommendations of local knowledge for great things to see, great cafes and coffee stops, bitumen lookouts or any other tourist traps that you KNOW he should experience whilst here.


Here is a live link to his current position so you can plan a meet up or just stalk him...
https://spotwalla.com/tripViewer.php?id=1640359b0f756c9610&showInfo=yes&showHome=yes&hoursPast=0&fillFactor=100&zoomLevel=10&showAll=no


PM Big Ted to make plans and share the love about great places to experience. (and CC me in too please).


There's your excuse for a ride!    ;-*

Williamson:

--- Quote from: Diesel on November 05, 2017, 02:00:13 PM ---.... bitumen lookouts or any other tourist traps that you KNOW he should experience whilst here....
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Bitumen lookouts?  You'll be lucky to find a bitumen road down the west coast.

Last Tassie ride was in 2014 the sealed road terminated 10km to 15km south of Arthur River, where there's Coutta Rocks, a short ride over a sandy gravel tack will get you this:


We then had to U-turn because the gravel road down to Corinna was wash out, had to double back to Smithton (nice little bakery and local pies) and Stanley (scallop pies a specialty at the bakery).

Just south of the Arthur River bridge there's a road (500m of good gravel) to the End of the World lookout, worth the effort.


Back Road into to Stanley is also worth the effort.


The ride down the valley to Gunns Plains and then ride up the hill on the otherside was worth it too:


To get further down the west coast, we had to go to Wynyard and down the Murchison Highway.  The Waratah pub had a good meal and view:




The view from the road out of Queenstown:


Strathgordon Dam:


The Strathgordon Road:


Plenty of pics, please.


 

Phil.S:
Where will you be over the next two days

BigTed:

--- Quote from: Phil.S on November 05, 2017, 06:20:40 PM ---Where will you be over the next two days

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Hiya, the next 3 days are planted out...
I'll be at Port Arthur tomorrow, then in Hobart for 2 days catching up with an old friend... and getting my bum off the bike!
Cheers, Rob.

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Phil.S:
I am planning to ride up to Sheffield on Tuesday at this time , from there take run over Mt Claude back though mole creek , may even head back over Poatina to Great lake road and back to Bothwell , then out to Midlands Hwy and back home.

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