48 HOURS in LAUNCESTON Tasmania (Our First Impressions)

This week we finally made it to Launceston and decided to spend 48 hours exploring the city and nearby attractions. We visited iconic spots such as Cataract Gorge, City Park, Lilydale Falls and Bridestowe Lavender Estate. We hope you enjoy watching 💙🚐
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About Us:
Hey, welcome to our KZbin! We are Lydia and Wehan, high school sweethearts who made the crazy decision to sell our house and quit our jobs so that we could go on the big lap of Australia in our self converted Sprinter van. 🚐
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[@80smusicfan90]

Thankyou for sharing! Im a local from launceston and i must say i love living here!

[@onigvd77]

Hey you guys are checking out some of my fav places. I was born in Launceston and got to know the Basin/Gorge, Grindelwald and Lillydale falls. Oh and you were parked close to my office in town, its quite a busy area, so good thing you were there on a public holiday :)

[@lydiaandwehan]

We loved Launceston (and Tassie as a whole!). So many beautiful spots you can enjoy as a local. Definitely got lucky with the timing and the public holiday!

[@theresamills3856]

I still get mesmerised at Cataract Gorge and iv lived in Launceston for 16 years now .Beautiful spot

[@doodleacademy]

Really enjoy your content :) such a good balance of good info, calm vibes, awesome nature footage, and great production value...thank you for sharing ⭐

[@lydiaandwehan]

Thank you so so much, that means a lot! 😊 We always have a lot of fun filming and putting these videos together.

[@Thriftagogo]

i stayed at grindlwald back in 2000 there was a lake with a paddle boat u could go on with a shop next to it stayed at the waterfalls to in hotels thy had there my fav place is st helens bay of fires and cygnet ive been all around tasmania my favourite place is the beaches on east coast

[@Sponggybobbie]

I can tell you love Tasmania. You’ve made multiple videos on it but I can’t complain. I love the Tasman videos

[@lydiaandwehan]

Seriously loving it here! 💙

[@keepingupwiththejoneses06]

❤ my old stomping ground...thanks for the reminders. Cataract gorge is a place I spent many summers. The town is usually busy weekdays. So.many more places to visit there. You will love the lavender farm when in bloom and the smell 😊

[@lydiaandwehan]

Ah Cataract Gorge was amazing, really wished we'd worn our bathers and spent the day swimming there.. it would have been great on hot summer days ☀️ Yeah we definitely timed our visit wrong with the public holiday... we'd never heard of Recreation Day before and only heard about it from the locals. But I'm sure we'll be back when we finish the lap and are back north as we really enjoyed it in Launceston and wish we spent more time there. 💙

[@keepingupwiththejoneses06]

@@lydiaandwehan it's hard because there are so many fab places. Wait til you get to Hobart

[@lydiaandwehan]

I honestly don't know how we'll ever leave! 😅

[@keepingupwiththejoneses06]

@@lydiaandwehan enjoy it 😁

[@vivross8339]

Recommend the goblin Forrest,. Near st helens, bay of fires area if i remember correctly . The most different forest to any other Forrest in oz

[@richarddevaottien7724]

Naughty having WHITE rice😮...love your videos you two😊

[@EstelleWalter]

Thank you for sharing your adventure :)

[@lydiaandwehan]

Thank you for watching! 💙

[@jemartejero7536]

amazing

[@ianjessup7749]

There are banded plover , and spur wing plover . They swoop and attack when they have nests and you get to close , hence the spurs , jousting .

[@vivross8339]

Love you guys. Wehan already thinks hes an aussie.... he said i didnt know WE had peacocks in oz. Lol. Would love some content on your overall impressions of tas... eg: lack of people, wildlife spotting opportunities, the clean air, the awesome sunrises and sunsets, etc, etc. Beautiful footage again. Youve seen a bit of tassie but so many more awesome spots to see. Recommended bay of fires, freycinet peninsula, bruny island near hobart, port arthur, Richmond, strahaun. Look forward to next ongoing journey

[@lydiaandwehan]

Thank you for the kind words and the recommendations! 💙 Even though we don’t seem it we are actually Aussies, we both moved over when we were kids 😊 We’ll definitely film a state summary on Tasmania chatting about all of those things before we leave. Tasmania has been incredible so it will be fun to talk about.

[@joaodaltrorodriguesmartins8707]

Video muito bom e engraçado. Vou em abril pra Louceston. Obrigado por compartilhar.

[@simo41]

Great vid again guys!! Did you both see the Monkeys at the park in Launceston? I was suprised they didn't make the video 😂👌

[@lydiaandwehan]

We did!!! We were so surprised to hear that there were monkeys in the middle of the city. There were quite a few families there when we stopped by though so we only got a couple of pictures 🐒

[@simo41]

@@lydiaandwehan haha, excellent!! It definitely is an odd think to find, have always called it The Monkey Park because of them. Ahh yes, that makes sense, bit hard to film in that situation. 👌😂

[@karlhoward2737]

Hehe…..very interesting encounter…..bit questionable in a family area…..I did this once in the Seychelles back in 1986….it was so funny, a group of folks who never knew each other…..well we sure did after that Beach fun in the sun…..my son shakes his head and my wife rolls her eyes…yeah…free and laid back happy times back then….

[@carokat1111]

Grindlewald! Haven't been there since the 1980s. Always was an oddity!

[@lydiaandwehan]

Such a unique spot, did it look similar to when you last visited in the 1980s or has it changed much? 😊

[@carokat1111]

@@lydiaandwehan Pretty similar actually.

[@Maxiakt]

"Gravely Beach" is gravel with a y, and ive never heard plovers pronounced that way😂

[@lydiaandwehan]

🤣🤯 Just searched up the pronunciation of plover and Gravelley and we are genuinely mind blown hahahahah! Oh dear, thank you!!

[@Maxiakt]

@@lydiaandwehan All good, I would be exactly the same if I was in a strange place. Welcome to my home town, Launceston.

[@lydiaandwehan]

Thank you, we've been loving Tassie so far! We'll definitely be back in Launceston when we finish our lap of Tas, we had so much fun there.

[@Maxiakt]

@@lydiaandwehan 💙

[@sharonrose3871]

seriously had me chuckling... the usa husband used to mispronounce worse than plOver and lawnceston ... mainlanders do as well.

[@Itsariaxx]

U drove right past my house we have tea ☕️ Edit one: did you live in Launceston or did you have a trip there and I can’t tell u how many times ive fell of that spinny hamster thing

[@sanricrous5507]

Wehan, ofcourse you'd share a memory of the family...and end it with the thought of a toilet. 😂😂😂

[@lydiaandwehan]

🤣

[@meled5801]

Cool to see gravely beach, live there👍

[@lydiaandwehan]

It's a lovely spot I'm sure we'll stay at that campsite again when we're back north! 😊

[@meled5801]

Nice, not far from here is a nice bush walk think it's called fern gully

[@meled5801]

Greensbeach also it's out past Beaconsfield and beauty point is a lovely spot, I Believe there's a camp site just below the batman bridge too and at Exeter pub there is overnite parking in the paddock, ..handy to know!

[@thefoolsadventures]

If you ever in Victoria head to Daylesford caravan park they have over 20 peacock chilling walking around the camp area and the babies are so cute

[@lydiaandwehan]

Just had to look up what peacock babies look like...they're adorable! 🦚 We'll be back to Vic in Feb so we'll have to look into that caravan park, thank you

[@thefoolsadventures]

@ lydiaandwehan it's called jubilee lake holiday park ....that's funny I live in Victoria and heading to Tassie in Feb lol for my car camping trip.

[@crazy_spirit_of_a_life529]

Superbe

[@lydiaandwehan]

Thank you! 😊

[@crazy_spirit_of_a_life529]

@@lydiaandwehan with pleasure 🙏

[@castlephoenixandsculptureg6467]

G'day guys would you like to visit a real castle in Tasmania? Your welcome if you make it down this far to😊 Geeveston

[@lydiaandwehan]

Wow what a cool project you guys are working on! The castle looks amazing. 🏰 We'll definitely make our way towards Geeveston eventually we're just taking it slow towards the East coast currently 😊

[@studentofabrahamiamavibrat3615]

HAH! ITS NOT 'GRAVALLY' ITS PRONOUNCED 'GRAVEL-Y. AND THEY ARE PLOV-ERS AS IN ABOVE.

[@margaretmok7998]

What time you travel?

[@lydiaandwehan]

Were you wondering when these were filmed? It was early November, the first day was the public holiday Recreation Day (6th November) and we started the day first thing in the morning after sunrise 😊

[@sueeudey8385]

That’s a mating call the peacock is making he is a male with the most beautiful tail

[@dawnradel9008]

Please, learn to say the names correctly. Gravelly Beach has the flat "a" and Bridestow has the "i" as in bridge. Brid eh stow. That is all. 😀

[@onigvd77]

And Launceston is said like Lonceston or Lonny for short

[@richarddevaottien7724]

I like refreshing incorrect pronunciation 😳...relax

[@dawnradel9008]

@richarddevaottien7724 sorry, it's the language nerd in me. If I were in the UK, things would probably be pronounced differently, again. 😜

[@ruthspillane7381]

Glad you enjoyed our island, tis a shame you missed the lavender in bloom.

[@Findthishere]

​@@onigvd77I also have never heard Plovers said like that. Maybe it's just Australian that we say pluv ers (like dove, but with the pl instead of the D for those who don't get what I am saying)