
01 TAS Devonport to Scottsdale

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Last edit: 17-06-2022
Tasmania is known for its many national parks, green rugged landscapes and the Tasmanian Devil. Only a few living specimens of the Tasmanian Devil are known to exist. Much of the island is unspoilt and designated as a national or wildlife park. In addition, one can find many waterfalls in Tasmania. Tasmania's coastline is mountainous with a number of white sand beaches. In the waters around Tasmania it is ideal for diving and snorkeling to the colorful underwater life. Tasmania, has a diversity of flora and fauna; the most diverse types of plants, trees and animals, especially birds and many typical Australian marsupials, not found anywhere else in the world!
You will see and experience it all in this great tour of Tasmania, a tour that also visits the capital, Hobart, is one to remember!
This 5-star rated route is the start of this great tour.
Start point: Devonport, Devonport Harbor.
End Point: Scottsdale, North East Rest Awhile B&B
ATTENTION: DRIVE LEFT!
Animation
Verdict
Duration
5h 44m
Mode of travel
Car or motorcycle
Distance
266.99 km
Countries


Bridestowe Lavender Farm
Also in this route some dirt roads, some nice stops like at the Bathman Bridge, the Batman Bridge is a modern road bridge that carries the Batman Highway over the Tamar River, between Whirlpool Reach, Hillwood at the eastern end and the center of Sidmouth/Deviot at the western end, in northern Tasmania. The bridge connects the Batman Highway with the West Tamar Highway and the East Tamar Highway. The bridge overlooks the Deviot Sailing Club and is named after John Batman, a Launceston businessman and co-founder of Melbourne.
Next up is a stop at the Bridestowe Lavender Estate, which spans over 260 acres and is the world's largest privately run lavender farm. With an estimated 650,000 plants, the lavender rows stretch for a total of approximately 200 kilometers - our guests love to get lost in the purple flowers, clean air and open spaces of our farm. Bridestowe grows true French lavender, Lavandula angustifolia, the only variety of lavender suitable for use in perfumery and cooking. As a result, Bridestowe Lavender Estate is one of the few farms that is truly paddock to plate. When lavender flowers are harvested at Bridestowe, some are dried and the remaining flowers are distilled to extract their fine oil. Our premium lavender oil and flowers are then used to make a wide variety of beautiful products, from skin creams, teas, soaps and linen sachets to our famous Bobbie Bear heat packs and lavender pancakes. This all happens at Bridestowe and you can see it in action all year round, sample our products at the Woodcroft Café and browse our extensive gift shop. As the oldest and most respected global fine oil brand, Bridestowe Lavender Farm is among the best in the world.
After learning all about lavender, set course for Scottsdale, where this 1st route ends.
Info Tasmania
Tasmania was connected to the Australian mainland for most of the past 100,000 years. As a result, it probably became populated fairly quickly after the arrival of the first explorers in Australia. The first Australians may have arrived on the continent as early as 60,000 years ago. Tasmanians looked like dark Africans. They were quite large: the men were on average 1.63 to 1.70 meters, but some were up to 2 meters long. The oldest archaeological sites on the island are Warreen Cave, estimated to be 34,790 years old, and Parmerpar Meethaneer Cave, which is between 44,200 and 34,000 years old.
Tasmania is home to a number of other animals that are not found anywhere else (anymore). The Pseudomys higginsi is an approximately 13 cm large rodent, which mainly lives in the higher forests. The red-bellied pademelon is a brownish kangaroo about 60 cm high that only jumps in Tasmania. The Tasmanian brush-tailed kangaroo rat is a 30 cm long, brown-grey kangaroo rat that only has Tasmania as its habitat and moves at night and on the ground.
The Tasmanians were the indigenous people of the Australian state of Tasmania. Today, however, they are considered extinct as there are no more Thoroughbred Tasmanians. The people disappeared (through murder and European diseases) in the years after the European colonization of Tasmania. The last full-blooded Tasmanian, a woman named Truganini, died in 1876. The Tasmanians' descendants still live in Tasmania, but much of their original culture and language has been lost. Since the 1970s, however, efforts have been made to revive this culture.

Harbor

North East Rest Awhile B&B
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