Bridestowe Lavender Farm, Tasmania

On the next day after checked out from our 1st Caravan park.. is to visit the Lavender Farm.. I am so looking forward to go to this place. I love flowers. It's a dream to be around with thousands of flowers.






Some part of the road crossing heading to Nabowla.. Where the farm located. Check HERE for location.

Some beautiful sceneries along the way..






We finally here at Bridestowe Lavender Estate..






They supposed to have an entrance fee but we are quite lucky that day that it was a free entry! Yey!






The Lavender full blooming season is around Christmas time onwards. We were visiting on the 16th of Dec and we actually can see some colours are already popping out.. So not that disappointed.

The weather was great.. perfect moment to capture lots and lots of pictures.. All Lavender's moment after this.
































It's time to move to our next destination.. but visiting their garden and shops for some souvenirs.















Inside the shop.. Smells of Lavender all over the place. The have all type of skin products from Lavender too. I bought some soap bar and a small bag for myself.. :)






Here.. their most famous Lavender bear.. I am so tempted to buy.. but I didn't..






Lastly.. Having their lavender ice cream.. Oh my.. I never know Lavender ice cream taste soooo good!!! Must try!! :)






Lastly.. Love to see the Lavenders hanging like that.. :)

Hadspen Caravan Park, Tasmania_Part 5

We reached Hadspen quite late already.. around 8pm.. may be almost.. 

Check in time actually at around 2pm up to 6pm.. sometimes 7pm. The office will closed after that, but if we late, they will always put your letter (Which contents all your sites information, caravan parking number.. the kitchen and toilets password or keys) in a special box just in front of the office.

Check out time usually around 10am.. 

We officially using all the equipments inside the motorhome.. I prepared dinner.. clean up and we all went for shower. We are not using the shower in the motorhome but we used all the facilities that have in the Caravan park (Got to walk a little bit but it's alright)

They have kitchen.. toilet.. and laundry room (Need to get ready some coins to use their machines)..






We all are quite exhausted that night and we all slept early.. Hubby and big boy sleep on top (Big space there!).. Mom and dad just in front of me.. and me and small boy sleep at the back where I took this pic..

after 10pm no more noise allowed.. that will be until 7am.. No noise.. :)

That will be our 1st time sleeping in the motorhome.. haha.. we all have a good sleep. Because it was quite cold at night we sleep with the heater on. I switched it off when it warm enough. There is a small window on top of the motorhome where we open a little bit for air circulation inside.. and we have original air conditioner from the outside haha. All window are covered with net so no worries about small bugs coming in.. (Except for the toilet)






I woke up early that day.. I think around 6.30am.. brrrrr... cold... My mom woke up after me. and we both go for a morning walk. Picture on top showing our parking.. the 1st parking..






Me standing near by our motorhome..






This is the laundry and kitchen area.. Very clean and convenient..






If you thinking to stay in their cabin.. they have it too... pictures of their cabins.






Their land mark.. hihi.. at the back is their office.






More pictures of their cabins..






Love to see the pine tree.. Look at their cones..






Close up.. Picking up the falling cones..

They also have a small herbs garden where you can use for your own cooking.. how wonderful..






And the lavender.. beautiful.. Talking about Lavender.. That will be our next destination visiting the Lavender farm.. :)








Every powered sites at the caravan park will provided with clean water tap where we can fill in our motorhome tank for next journey. Picture showing our plug cable attached to the power socket provided on the site.






Close up.. When we reached at the sites we will straight away plug on our cable to charge our motorhome battery and on the same time receiving power for all our equipment inside the motorhome. Below the power plug is the water tap..

and.. don't forget to clear off the toilet 'bank'.. haha.. most caravan park will have a special place to throw  the toilet waste. Do not throw it in the toilet.. they have special place for it. some small caravan park do not have it.. so have to wait for the next park.

Next heading to the Lavender farm..

Ross Town And All The Way To Launceston_Part 5

Our journey from Hobart to Launceston (In a day). 1st tour stop at Oatlands town and next to Ross town.

 

Some beautiful views on our way to Ross town.

We finally reached Ross town. Which are quite a small and very very quiet town. Most of the house are with a 'House for sale' sign boards. May be this is just part of the town.. we don't know. But this part of the area are really silent and a little bit creepy for me.. hihi.. But of coz I still saw some shops are open for business.. I actually bought some pies there and it's yummy.

My dad actually felt creepy too.. haha.. not used to a situation without human ha..? On top, some pictures of the town. I love the old buildings with bricks around and all the big trees added with the wind and cold breeze made me just want to sit there and watch all the trees dancing.

But it's getting too cold.. very very cold..

More views around..

Me and dad have a walk around the town heading to their historic bridge. 

Love the roses standing beautifully in front of their house. Most every houses here in TAS have beautiful blooming roses in their garden. How I wish to have such a beautiful roses in my garden.

So here are the historic bridge called The Ross Bridge.

"Ross Bridge
Quite rightly the pride of the village this beautiful stone bridge was constructed by convicts in 1836. It is the third oldest bridge still standing in Australia and is recognised as the most important convict-built bridge in the country. It was constructed on the orders of Governor Arthur and designed by John Lee Archer. Built by convicts its beautiful stonework is the result of two convict stonemasons - Daniel Herbert and James Colbeck. They were paid one shilling a day. Herbert, who had been transported for highway robbery in 1827, was freed after the bridge was completed and is buried in the Old Cemetery. He is credited with the beautiful carvings on the side of the bridge. Experts have described the carvings as 'possibly the richest achievement of the earlier colonial period if not the most significant sculpture on any edifice in the Commonwealth.' Leslie Greener, who was largely responsible for discovering that Daniel Herbert was responsible for the carvings, has written: 'Ross Bridge is the most beautiful of its kind today. The carvings have in them that delight in the shapes themselves that our sculptors lost somewhere in the 13th century."

From: Theage.com.au

Our version of photos there.. :D (Dad.. Mom.. Me)



The other side of the lake..



Chapel on the hill..

And we continue our journey..






Passing by more beautiful sceneries.. rivers.. and field of Poppies..






This 'Stroll' grass attract my attentions.. looks like painting..






Crossing some of the jungle we saw some area covered with whites.. My hubby said looks like snow and my dad go down to have a look and it is snow.. seems like it was snowing a day before by looking at it. ahh missed it haha.. Snowing during summer..

This area was somewhere in between from Ross to Colesbay if referring to the map on top.

The journey continue.. we actually can reach Launceston earlier but I decided to go more into the beaches road side.. When we were there it was raining heavily.. all along the way.. what a waste of time.. :(







Managed to captured only these..






Magical sun rays.. the real moment not able to be captured by my camera..





More views along the way.. and sometimes we stopped our vehicle on the side of the road to use our toilet (From the Motorhome) and me as always sometimes capturing something new to me like this grass.. so cute..






After a longg drive.. we finally reaching Launceston.. Our 1st Caravan holiday stop will be at Hadspen Caravan Park by Discovery Holiday Parks.







Some pictures around Launceston.. Not much.. It was around 8pm.. yet still bright.. the day time is longer than night that time.. it start getting dark around 9pm.. and start getting brighter around 5am..

Next will be about our stay at our 1st caravan park..