Thanks...that's the one I couldn't find last night.
Just a few quick lines before the "picture-show"...
1) The amount of Campers and Caravans roaming Tassie through the summer-season has taken on absolutely staggering proportions. About half of all vehicles boarding the ferries at both ends were campers/ caravan rigs taking advantage of the the boom of free campsites (or super-cheap) that are dotted every few kilometers along all main highways (and even some byways). $200.000 rigs fighting for $5 campsites
2) Weather wasn't as good as when Squiz + Crusty were over there a fortnight earlier, but going with the weather rather than with a plan proved the right choice again and kept the bums dry.
Some drizzle and overcast days along the clockwise loop, while other groups like "the 7 Posties" and Kevin777 and his mates copped it big time... the west being the west
3) There's a recent series of publications by a local Hobartian rider, Leon Cupit, who has released a trio of booklets about Tassie motorcycle-riding/ routes/ info etc.
The road-version is worth a closer look and downloadable here, pdf-file.
Next is a general accommodation guide mainly based on this info: (no concrete addresses or points of contact, just general stuff, hmmmm)
http://campingtasmania.com/map-camping-tasmania.htm
Then there's the ADV version of the road-guide. Eivind had purchased the lot and I was able to have a good look through and compare with maps and first-hand info from many previous trips.
The first half is a near full road-loop of Tassie with VERY little gravel, there's lots more exciting "adv"-stuff around!!
The other half are short-to-medium dirt and gravel stretches mainly in the interior and around the "extremities". Most of those routes have apparently been penned by various sources with varied backgrounds...and the results show. While they certainly mention some of the more interesting areas and targets of Tassie, they have to be taken with a HUGE DOSE of caution.
The listed difficulty-ratings are totally out-of-whack throughout the entire publication and can easily lead the unwary up shit-creek, BIG TIME!!
Use it for general info content ONLY... then double-check for a real assessment of your planned route with some known-good and reliable sources!!
4) MONA...what a GROANER!!:bang::bang:
Deciding to spend a wet + blustery day near Hobart "under cover", MONA was an obvious choice. Should've browsed the local op-shop instead.
Absolute prime position on a sandstone-knoll reaching into the Derwent River with a pretty vineyard on top and surrounded by Hobart's spreading suburbs, it sure is an impressive sight, if somewhat incongruous.
The sub-subterranean art displays are totally dwarfed by the central, 4-story tall sandstone wall in all its colours. Dwarfed in EVERY way, that is. While the 30m black wall of plaster-vaginas (aka "the wall of c&^%s") is easily identifiable as a line of portraits of our current world leaders, the room full of cardboard model planes dangling off the ceiling was obviously a project by the local Glenorchy Primary School 3rd graders...maybe they were also involved in those 2 bonking, animated skeletons in a glass-coffin?
They can backfill those underground chambers with toxic waste for all I care...I'll stick to the vineyard up top
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I know, I know....I failed my Art subjects in High School, too...after coughing up a single-line "essay" of my impressions following a class-excursion to some museum or other, housing a collection of kitchen chairs smeared with tubs of margarine
I still bet the celebrity artist was wetting himself in a back-room while wondering how much more piss he could take out of the stumped, dumb public shuffling past.
MONA ...been there, done that, tick here + forget.
Consolation-coffees and more lasting memories were made at Moto Vecchia
in Bellerive an hour later.
Just a few quick lines before the "picture-show"...
1) The amount of Campers and Caravans roaming Tassie through the summer-season has taken on absolutely staggering proportions. About half of all vehicles boarding the ferries at both ends were campers/ caravan rigs taking advantage of the the boom of free campsites (or super-cheap) that are dotted every few kilometers along all main highways (and even some byways). $200.000 rigs fighting for $5 campsites
2) Weather wasn't as good as when Squiz + Crusty were over there a fortnight earlier, but going with the weather rather than with a plan proved the right choice again and kept the bums dry.
Some drizzle and overcast days along the clockwise loop, while other groups like "the 7 Posties" and Kevin777 and his mates copped it big time... the west being the west
3) There's a recent series of publications by a local Hobartian rider, Leon Cupit, who has released a trio of booklets about Tassie motorcycle-riding/ routes/ info etc.
The road-version is worth a closer look and downloadable here, pdf-file.
Next is a general accommodation guide mainly based on this info: (no concrete addresses or points of contact, just general stuff, hmmmm)
http://campingtasmania.com/map-camping-tasmania.htm
Then there's the ADV version of the road-guide. Eivind had purchased the lot and I was able to have a good look through and compare with maps and first-hand info from many previous trips.
The first half is a near full road-loop of Tassie with VERY little gravel, there's lots more exciting "adv"-stuff around!!
The other half are short-to-medium dirt and gravel stretches mainly in the interior and around the "extremities". Most of those routes have apparently been penned by various sources with varied backgrounds...and the results show. While they certainly mention some of the more interesting areas and targets of Tassie, they have to be taken with a HUGE DOSE of caution.
The listed difficulty-ratings are totally out-of-whack throughout the entire publication and can easily lead the unwary up shit-creek, BIG TIME!!
Use it for general info content ONLY... then double-check for a real assessment of your planned route with some known-good and reliable sources!!
4) MONA...what a GROANER!!
:bang::bang:Deciding to spend a wet + blustery day near Hobart "under cover", MONA was an obvious choice. Should've browsed the local op-shop instead.
Absolute prime position on a sandstone-knoll reaching into the Derwent River with a pretty vineyard on top and surrounded by Hobart's spreading suburbs, it sure is an impressive sight
, if somewhat incongruous.The sub-subterranean art displays are totally dwarfed by the central, 4-story tall sandstone wall in all its colours. Dwarfed in EVERY way, that is. While the 30m black wall of plaster-vaginas (aka "the wall of c&^%s") is easily identifiable as a line of portraits of our current world leaders, the room full of cardboard model planes dangling off the ceiling was obviously a project by the local Glenorchy Primary School 3rd graders...maybe they were also involved in those 2 bonking, animated skeletons in a glass-coffin?
They can backfill those underground chambers with toxic waste for all I care...I'll stick to the vineyard up top
.I know, I know....I failed my Art subjects in High School, too...after coughing up a single-line "essay" of my impressions following a class-excursion to some museum or other, housing a collection of kitchen chairs smeared with tubs of margarine
I still bet the celebrity artist was wetting himself in a back-room while wondering how much more piss he could take out of the stumped, dumb public shuffling past.
MONA ...been there, done that, tick here + forget.
Consolation-coffees and more lasting memories were made at Moto Vecchia
in Bellerive an hour later.
:bow:
