Two Up in Tasmania December 2024

Australia, Road Trips, Tasmania


Tasmania had long been on the bucket list but I kept putting it off due to the expense. After coming back from Japan I came across some ‘cheapish’ tickets that made it seem a little more viable and a plan was hatched ~ we were going Two Up in Twisty Tasmania.

I found a relatively inexpensive return ticket on the Spirit of Tasmania on Boxing Day and a one-way ticket to Launceston so the hatched plan involved me riding to Geelong on the Vstrom to catch the ferry to Davenport and for Noriko to fly to Launceston where I would pick her up the next day, do some two up touring for about two weeks in Tasmania and then ride back home to Queensland.

I spent the next two weeks researching routes and accomodation and thinking about what gear to take and how to carry it on the bike. By the time I left I had some idea of roads we could ride and places we might stay but right up to including the morning I left I was still fluffing around with gear and bags. As has been the case on my recent trips I was going to leave things a bit fluid until I had a better idea of what the weather would be doing which of course could be anything and that was in turn contrubuting to my indecisveness about packing.

Time was getting away and I needed to get going if I was to make it to Geelong in time to catch the ferry. A very late start on the first day saw me take the motorway to Ballina and then the Bruxnor to Tenterfield and finally the New England to Glen Innes where I stayed at my ‘regular’, the Great Northern Hotel. It was a pretty good run: the M1 south of Tweed Heads passes through some very pretty countryside and was very green on account of all the rain; the Bruxnor also passes through some pretty country and the 34 Kms of twisties between Drake and Tenterfield was virtually free of traffic; and the I always enjoy the ‘big open sky’ feeling of the stretch of the New England between Tenterfield and Glenn Innes although I always have some misgivings when passing Bluff Rock massacre site. Not a lot going on in Glen Innes this particualr evening and I ate at the pub and did some prep for the next few days

Glen Innes Town Hall with Christmas lights

Relive ‘Day 1 Southport to Glen Innes’

The 2nd day saw me trundle down the New England as far as Werris Creek and then connecting backroads to join the Black Stump Way and eventually the Castlereigh Highway to Dunedoo, a distance of around 430 kms. It was very hot and as the day went on threatening looking clouds started to appear but it did not rain. Judging from how green the countryside it had been raining a lot though. There is a painted silo in Dunedoo: Peter Mortimore painted one side featuring the famous racehorse Wix and the other side painted by Daniel Krause, features a boy reading a book. There are one or two other murals nearby including one featurung a local para-olympian

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