After collecting our hire car, we left Hobart headed for the glorious Freycinet National Park.
For most of the way the highway passed through grazing land and bush-covered hills. The only blight on the landscape is the huge and controversial export woodchip mill near Triabunna. We made a coffee stop at Triabunna and saw Maria Island from the ferry point where you can cross to Maria Island if you wish. We continued on with our farily uneventful journey stopping for lunch at the oldest town on the east coast; Swansea.
Swansea, lies sheltered in Great Oyster Bay, facing the Freycinet Peninsula. One of Tasmania's oldest settlements, Swansea is an administrative centre, fishing port and seaside resort with well preserved architecture dating from the 1830s to the 1880s. After our picnic lunch overlooking the bay we strolled around town, stopping at the main focal point of Morris's General Store which has been run by generations of the family since 1868. 
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