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Wed 4 — Thu 12 November 2026
Tasmaniaby MX-5
Devonport in · Devonport out · anticlockwise
2,440
km
39
hrs driving
20
hrs walking
9
days
84
km gravel
8/8
nights booked
53
things to do

Ferry departs 18:45 on Thu 12 November. Be at Devonport by 16:45. Day 9 is built backwards from it.

Along the way

Each day page ends with 163 optional stops across the nine days - coffee, bakeries, food, sights, lookouts and activities on that day's road, roughly in the order you pass them. None of it is scheduled.

Use it when a walk gets cut short, the weather turns, or you are simply running ahead. Anything with a catch is flagged.

Daylight

Roughly 05:45 to 20:05 across the trip, and every day's driving finishes before sunset. Day 8 is the tightest: the Sideling into Launceston ends about 19:35 against a 20:04 sunset.

Sunrise and sunset are precomputed for the place you wake and the place you end up, so they work with no signal. Each day page shows first light, sunset and whether the driving fits inside them.

Set your real date and every day page dates itself, highlights today, and pulls that day's weather and daylight.

Day 1

Cradle, then the far northwest

Devonport → Sheffield → Cradle Mountain → Burnie → Stanley
300 km4.5 hrs07:30 away0 km gravel
B14C132A1B21
Open day 1 →
Day 2

Stanley to Strahan

Stanley → Table Cape → Boat Harbour → Rocky Cape → Murchison Hwy → Strahan
310 km4.7 hrs08:00 away0 km gravel
B21A2A10B27
Open day 2 →
Day 3

Gordon River cruise

Strahan → Gordon River cruise → Strahan
60 km1 hrs08:30 away0 km gravel
B24A10B27
Open day 3 →
Day 4

Strahan to Lake Pedder

Strahan → Queenstown → Lyell Hwy → Maydena → Strathgordon
325 km5.4 hrs07:30 away0 km gravel
A10B61
Open day 4 →
Day 5

Tarn Shelf, then Hobart

Strathgordon → Maydena → Mount Field National Park → Hobart via kunanyi
270 km4.6 hrs07:30 away32 km gravel
B61B62C616
Open day 5 →
Day 6

Cape Hauy & Port Arthur

Hobart → Eaglehawk Neck → Fortescue Bay Tasman National Park → Port Arthur → Hobart
230 km4 hrs07:00 away24 km gravel
A3A9C344
Open day 6 →
Day 7

Freycinet, then Dolphin Sands

Hobart → Orford → Swansea → Freycinet National Park → Dolphin Sands Swansea
300 km4.9 hrs08:00 away18 km gravel
A3C302
Open day 7 →
Day 8

Three passes, golf, then the Sideling

Dolphin Sands Swansea → Elephant Pass → St Marys Pass → Weldborough Pass → Bridport → Launceston
360 km5.5 hrs06:30 away0 km gravel
A3A4C428B84
Open day 8 →
Day 9

The long plateau, then the ferry

Launceston → Poatina → Great Lake → Bronte Park → Western Tiers → Liffey Falls → Devonport
285 km4.3 hrs08:00 away10 km gravel
B51A5C513B13
Open day 9 →
Stay8 of 8 nights bookedChecklistBookings, fuel, passes, kitGravel17 unsealed roads, judgedPackingAnd the boot problemSwaps15 alternativesLegs31 distances

Still to do

Book Barnbougle Dunes for Wed 11 Nov, and a Bridport bed with it. It is the only night still open.

Message the Dolphin Sands host about the driveway surface - the road is sealed but many properties on the spit are not.

Wildlife, not the roads. Tasmania has Australia's highest roadkill rate and the car sits 30 cm off the ground. Be parked by nightfall.