Post by dave01 on Jan 12, 2012 22:24:24 GMT 10
I would like to start this thread with a disclaimer from Dave. He will only take responsibility for the photos of cars and caravans, the rest is mine. Lilian
We started the year with a trip to Tasmania. Before we left we found out John and Steph were down there. We wondered if we would run into them while we were there.
Dave pointing the way to Hobart?
We went to Bellerive but John and Steph weren’t there.
Apparently we just missed them at the Food Festival, when Tasmanians and tourists celebrate Tasmanian food and wines , yum!
They weren’t anywere in sight at the Casino.
We went up in the Shot Tower to see if we could spot them from a vantage point. No caravan to be seen, especially not a vintage van.
So we decided to go higher to Mt Wellington, a vantage point from which most of Hobart and southern Tasmania can be seen.
The views were magnificent, but too far away to see much detail.
David was mollified when he found this, a Dodge.
We decided to change tack and travelled to Richmond.
Not sure if John is a fisherman we had to stop to check if he was here.
The blow hole.
Look! Over there!
No, not John and Steph, but a 69? Franklin.
And there, a tandem viscount?
We checked Pirate Bay
The Arch
How can we possibly find anyone with all these tourists! (oh, yeah, I guess we are too…)
An abandoned Millard. If this is how they treat metal caravans what hope is there for the wooden ones?
So we decided to go to Port Arthur. Once there David took charge of the camera again.
David praying at the church of St David that he will find a wooden caravan (oh, and John and Steph too).
There is evidence in John’s thread about his Tassie holidays that he was in this area, just in front of the island of the dead.
A trip to the Cadbury factory is a must on a visit to Hobart. For all those people who have been there before, we can no longer go into the production section, and seconds are no longer sold like they used to be.
No matter how hard we looked, we still couldn’t see John and Steph.
We headed to the Bonorong wild-life park, it had good reviews and many people visit there. Would they be here?
What’s that Skip? Haven’t seen anyone lately?
Perhaps some bribery would yield results.
Once we fed the whole family they pointed us in the direction of Tas.
More bribery.
Tas told us to check with the Tawny Frog mouth,
All he said was “John Whoo?”
Finally Dave decided to do what most visitors do, relax and take in the scenery.
Of an EJ Prem. A $30,000 restoration to original, and the owner has refused an offer of that amount.
In Oatlands Dave once again took charge of the camera:
Rudy bought this XY Falcon van new in 1971 for $2100. It has been used to cart pigs, sheep etc and has been used as a daily driver since. It now covers 50 miles a month and despite numerous requests is not for sale.
The dashboard remains intact with no cracks due to the amount of junk stored on top of it (Rudy’s words).
Barry owns this original XT Falcon , reputedly one of the first eight interceptors used in Hobart in 1968. The motor has been replaced with a 351, other than that it is original and awaiting restoration.
‘68, ’69? Franklin
Late ‘50s bondwood, reclad.
Ross is an old town with old shops and old memorabilia like this:
Phoning a friend, old style.
A trip down memory lane.
In the backyard of a local house Dave found this ambassador.
And behind the ambassador was the only wooden caravan we spotted in Tasmania. Not sure of make. The owner of the property was unaware the van was even there!
Thought we may have to travel to Perth to see if we could catch up with John and Steph. If you want to see the world just travel through Tassie, we went through Bagdad, Perth and Dover just to name a few.
At Cataract Gorge we kept our eyes peeled, but no familiar faces appeared.
We crossed the suspension bridge which rocked with every footstep.
At Geeveton (near the Tahune Airwalk) we asked some people if they had seen John, but they wooden give us an answer.
Hastings caves were an interesting sight.
Dave thought he spotted something, but it was only more stalectites and stalecmites.
We checked in the forests (with their magnificent old growth)
We checked at the thermal springs and the only familiar faces we saw were each other.
We even stopped at one of the many roadside stalls selling cherries (by the way, not a single green apple could be bought in Tassie, and not many good red ones either – though the cherries and apricots were scrumptious.
Near Greeveton we stopped at the ‘Big Tree’, an 87 metre Swamp Gum. This tree is the sole survivor of the fires of 1914, 1934 and 1967, although all the original limbs have burnt off. At the base it has a diameter of 6.2m, where we were standing the diameter is approx 3.3m.
A quaint ‘unmanned’ service station. The smallest working station we saw on our trip.
An idyllic view near Huon Port. Now it was time to head back to Hobart.
Salamanca Market was so busy you’d have buckley’s hope of finding anyone, even someone with a nice vintage caravan.
It must be said though, we spotted one vintage caravan at the market. Unusual read door treatment and it was not used for the purpose to which we are accustomed.
Dave’s last comment – Nice!
We looked, we searched, but we didn’t find. Maybe we will bump into John and Steph at the next v.v. getaway.
We started the year with a trip to Tasmania. Before we left we found out John and Steph were down there. We wondered if we would run into them while we were there.
Dave pointing the way to Hobart?
We went to Bellerive but John and Steph weren’t there.
Apparently we just missed them at the Food Festival, when Tasmanians and tourists celebrate Tasmanian food and wines , yum!
They weren’t anywere in sight at the Casino.
We went up in the Shot Tower to see if we could spot them from a vantage point. No caravan to be seen, especially not a vintage van.
So we decided to go higher to Mt Wellington, a vantage point from which most of Hobart and southern Tasmania can be seen.
The views were magnificent, but too far away to see much detail.
David was mollified when he found this, a Dodge.
We decided to change tack and travelled to Richmond.
Not sure if John is a fisherman we had to stop to check if he was here.
The blow hole.
Look! Over there!
No, not John and Steph, but a 69? Franklin.
And there, a tandem viscount?
We checked Pirate Bay
The Arch
How can we possibly find anyone with all these tourists! (oh, yeah, I guess we are too…)
An abandoned Millard. If this is how they treat metal caravans what hope is there for the wooden ones?
So we decided to go to Port Arthur. Once there David took charge of the camera again.
David praying at the church of St David that he will find a wooden caravan (oh, and John and Steph too).
There is evidence in John’s thread about his Tassie holidays that he was in this area, just in front of the island of the dead.
A trip to the Cadbury factory is a must on a visit to Hobart. For all those people who have been there before, we can no longer go into the production section, and seconds are no longer sold like they used to be.
No matter how hard we looked, we still couldn’t see John and Steph.
We headed to the Bonorong wild-life park, it had good reviews and many people visit there. Would they be here?
What’s that Skip? Haven’t seen anyone lately?
Perhaps some bribery would yield results.
Once we fed the whole family they pointed us in the direction of Tas.
More bribery.
Tas told us to check with the Tawny Frog mouth,
All he said was “John Whoo?”
Finally Dave decided to do what most visitors do, relax and take in the scenery.
Of an EJ Prem. A $30,000 restoration to original, and the owner has refused an offer of that amount.
In Oatlands Dave once again took charge of the camera:
Rudy bought this XY Falcon van new in 1971 for $2100. It has been used to cart pigs, sheep etc and has been used as a daily driver since. It now covers 50 miles a month and despite numerous requests is not for sale.
The dashboard remains intact with no cracks due to the amount of junk stored on top of it (Rudy’s words).
Barry owns this original XT Falcon , reputedly one of the first eight interceptors used in Hobart in 1968. The motor has been replaced with a 351, other than that it is original and awaiting restoration.
‘68, ’69? Franklin
Late ‘50s bondwood, reclad.
Ross is an old town with old shops and old memorabilia like this:
Phoning a friend, old style.
A trip down memory lane.
In the backyard of a local house Dave found this ambassador.
And behind the ambassador was the only wooden caravan we spotted in Tasmania. Not sure of make. The owner of the property was unaware the van was even there!
Thought we may have to travel to Perth to see if we could catch up with John and Steph. If you want to see the world just travel through Tassie, we went through Bagdad, Perth and Dover just to name a few.
At Cataract Gorge we kept our eyes peeled, but no familiar faces appeared.
We crossed the suspension bridge which rocked with every footstep.
At Geeveton (near the Tahune Airwalk) we asked some people if they had seen John, but they wooden give us an answer.
Hastings caves were an interesting sight.
Dave thought he spotted something, but it was only more stalectites and stalecmites.
We checked in the forests (with their magnificent old growth)
We checked at the thermal springs and the only familiar faces we saw were each other.
We even stopped at one of the many roadside stalls selling cherries (by the way, not a single green apple could be bought in Tassie, and not many good red ones either – though the cherries and apricots were scrumptious.
Near Greeveton we stopped at the ‘Big Tree’, an 87 metre Swamp Gum. This tree is the sole survivor of the fires of 1914, 1934 and 1967, although all the original limbs have burnt off. At the base it has a diameter of 6.2m, where we were standing the diameter is approx 3.3m.
A quaint ‘unmanned’ service station. The smallest working station we saw on our trip.
An idyllic view near Huon Port. Now it was time to head back to Hobart.
Salamanca Market was so busy you’d have buckley’s hope of finding anyone, even someone with a nice vintage caravan.
It must be said though, we spotted one vintage caravan at the market. Unusual read door treatment and it was not used for the purpose to which we are accustomed.
Dave’s last comment – Nice!
We looked, we searched, but we didn’t find. Maybe we will bump into John and Steph at the next v.v. getaway.
wished I was there with you'se. Brian.
, the Meckering earthquake, man landing on the moon, the Oct 87 stockmarket crash, the day Lady Di died, sept 01, and of course the first time you ever laid your eyes on a Falcon Superoo ;D
