TASSIE'S TOURING SECRETS - Roothy
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 17 ต.ค. 2024
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TASSIE'S TOURING SECRETS - Roothy
The thing about Tasmania’s coast is that the weather can turn extreme any time and with minimal warning. Most of the time that’ll just make a few days of the trip more adventurous but it can get very miserable if you’re not prepared with wet weather gear, warm clothes, decent shelter and a big bottle of rum.
The summer months from Christmas through to March are the best times to travel with February being the usual winner in the warmth/no rain stakes. Long days - the sun sets very slowly this far from the equator - really help you make a mile and find a good camp site too.
The downside of summer travelling is that that’s when tourists flock to the island, clogging up the cafes and shops in the more popular, trendy places. Don’t worry though, they rarely venture off the beaten track, exactly where you’ll be spending most of your time!
Forget winter unless you’re extremely adventurous and travelling with locals who know their stuff. The fact is that blizzards, dense fog and snow falls are pretty routine in a Tassie winter and apart from being uncomfortable, you’ll risk getting permanently stuck somewhere if the rivers suddenly come up.
Huge tree trunks pushed forty or more feet up the banks of steep river gullies pretty much say it all!
Driving Conditions
- OK all you solo tough guys, the drill for successful trips through Tassie coast’s tougher tracks is simple - travel in company! This applies to most of the tracks we’ve mentioned here especially if there’s been some rain and on Tasmania’s coast the odds are it’ll rain once or twice a week even in summer. If you’re going to invest in good mud tyres, do it before you go happy in the knowledge that you won’t be doing huge miles on sealed roads when there’s so many tracks beckoning!
Most of the serious local off-roaders own a winch at the very least while spades, hi-lift jacks, snatch straps and the usual complement of recovery gear will almost always get a work out. Trees falling across tracks in the forest country are common so it pays to keep an axe and a tow rope handy too. Be aware that carrying a chainsaw can be an offence in some of the Parks and Wildlife reserves.
Note too that the same office bound bureaucrats and so called ‘environmentalists’ who wouldn’t know a tree stump from a pencil are wielding their pathetic paper swords over the future of off-roading in Tasmanian too. Local 4WD clubs have responded by putting countless hours into track maintenance and preservation and wherever possible try to do your part to make sure their efforts aren’t in vain.
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This is my favourite Tasmania trip of roothy of all time back when he was with 4wd action, love seeing the old videos again mate👍
That left me speechless...what a beautiful country and Roothy is the best to present it...magnificent
Can't get enough of your old 4wd action day's old mate roothy.
Mother nature is the earth of the land and a couple of tyre tracks on her land isn't disturbing her nature!
Get out there.
Looking forward to your next adventure
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Great to see Pete on there John. Great guy.
nice one !! how funny was the stitch up on the ship of it turn rolling hard starboard lol
At 29:00 minutes the waves are going backwards. Great episode. Really like seeing the early episodes.
John Batman was the founder of Melbourne not George. ;) as I used to work on a charter boat here in Melbourne named after him. I love Tassie and look forward to taking my 80 series down there one day for a good bit of touring. Gees John, I would have thought you would have a few of those spare bolts for that in your spares box in the back.
Buckets of bolts for old Tojos!! Good luck mate. Never sell that 80.
This is awesomme:)
didnt i see this already a while ago with the subaru loosing its protection?
Me too.
Devonport is my home town mate.
I really want to start making videos like this on my channel. Keep the content coming. You have a new fan here!!!
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what do you think of the FJ cruiser Roothy?
Haven’t had much to do with them but I think it’s a Prado platform so should be great. Modified ones look really cool.