Day 34 Burnie Tasmania

Tasmania is known as Australia’s ‘Holiday State’ and Burnie lies almost in the centre of Tasmania’s north coast and serves as one of the major passenger ports. This is the business and retail centre for the North West and offers plenty of activity for visitors with its galleries and museums, heritage homes and specialty arts and craft shops. Burnie is a tiny city with approximately 20000 residents; the town centre consists of just 4 streets. We took a tour and visited the Pioneer Village Museum with over 30000 items on display from the Victorian era. They had a great replica of a pub which reminded us of one of our local pubs (see the photo!). We also had tea and scones at an award winning garden, Annsleigh Gardens. We went to Burnie Park and walked to the waterfall and made paper in the paper factory and then we walked along the boardwalk at the beach to the Penguin Observation and Habitat area. Unfortunately, we didn’t see any live penguins only a dead one by the fence. Weather-wise it was the best yet, sunny and about 23 centigrade and not at all humid, in fact, a perfect ‘English’ summer’s day. Sydney tomorrow.