With me having tested positive too, we limp on to Launceston to some accommodation that kindly took us in knowing the circumstances. Our current travels are a little underwhelming considering we were to drive the Murchison Highway through the high country and forests of the west to Zeehan, Strahan and Queenstown. We also had to cancel our Gordon River cruise and missed the scenic Lyell Highway past Lake St Clair.

From Burnie, we head east and plan to take the country way off the main highway. The Penguin references continue – this guy was named Pablo taken from Spanish meaning little, small, humble.

Braddons Lookout with the Premium Fresh Tasmanian farmland that produces some of the best vegetables in Australia.

I will spare you the toilet review but this notice on a toilet wall makes me wonder whether this is for the health of users or the chance of a gas explosion!

Bill and Ben found their new lodging very spacious.

Suzi Quatro’s favourite Tasmanian destination – So come alive (yeah!), come alive (yeah!); Down in Devil Gate Drive (Road); So come alive (yeah!), come alive (yeah!); Down in Devil Gate, down in Devil Gate;
Down in Devil Gate Drive (Road)….

Devils Gate Drive Road

Devils Gate Dam – one of the thinnest concrete -walled dam in the world; part of Tasmanian Hydro’s network.

The dam is 84 metres high with huge concrete buttresses to cope with floodwaters.

Playtpus move overland from dam to dam.

Mount Roland frames nearly every landscape view in the Sheffield district.

A few interesting place names in the area.

Nook – home of the nookie?

Sheffield – no, not the steel town that is the home of the Arctic Monkeys and Richard Hawley, but Sheffield, Tasmania with some of the prettiest farming land in the state.

Railton calls itself the top Topiary Town of Tasmania.

Tasmanian devil

The shopkeeper was surprised to see Godzilla near his door.

Topiary for the vertically challenged.

When Thomas saw this other locomotive, he said, “Toby or not Toby, that is the question!

Imagine walking home from the pub at night and you see this pair in the dark.

Nice accommodation in Launceston to rest.