Queenstown to Burnie

We had our day all planned out, so after refueling and visiting the dump point, we headed for Zeehan.  After a quick drive around town, we parked up and visited the Heritage Centre. This was an amazing combination of both mining and town historical information.  It was spread over 4 buildings that front onto the main street and acres of exhibits and displays. You need to allow heaps of time to see it all.  Check out the link to the photo gallery.

Unfortunately, the day had changed into cold wind and rain.  We had choices of stopping overnight at Rosebery, Tullah, Waratah, Ridgely but the weather was terrible.  We had lunch at Tullah and decided to keep moving as any sight seeing would be useless.  With the day just getting worse, we went through to Burnie and booked into a CP.

The drive was exhausting, not for the distance, but the road conditions and weather. With the wet roads, the narrow roads, the up and down some massive hills, there was no pleasure in driving.  On a good weather day it would be a different story.  See the stats for that day and average speeds in some sections were less than 50kph.

But as you would have it, got to Burnie and the sun came out. It was a pity about the caravan park we stayed at and that is another story.