20160321 Tas Oatlands

20160321 Oatlands is situated on Lake Dulverton and is one of Tasmania’s oldest settlements with over 150 sandstone Georgian buildings, the largest collection of any Australia town and mostly convict-built in the early 1800's.

Callington Mill is one of Oatlands main attraction, built in 1837 this Lincolnshire tower mill is the only operating mill of its type in the Southern Hemisphere.

We camped on the edge of Lake Dulverton a popular fishing spot with ducks and swans and I can’t imagine there would be many fish in there as she’s pretty dry.  In the afternoon we would have a visit from the many ducks searching for fresh water left lying in a hole under the tap.

Dry Stone Wall, has been a feature of the Oatlands environment since settlement in the 1820’s.  The tedious craft requires the patience that only a woman in this day and age seem capable of, has been revived in recent years with as many as 13 woman erecting walls in and around the Oatlands district.

These cute cottages line the street as you enter the town, they kind of takes me back to our time Holland.

Oatlands Town Hall built in 1881 for on the mear £1,250

TKO Bakery Café and The Kentish Hotel, it doesn’t look much from the outside but the inside is a must to check out.

I want a car just like this one, child.

The bar is lined with memorabilia and old wares from the 60s and lets not forget the famous photo of Marilyn Monroe.

Now I'm sure theirs a few old rev heads out there that can remember what these old car parts belonged to.

The café is lined with old movie equipment, photos and movie posters of Errol Flynn, Betty Davis and Maureen O’Hare, to mention a few.

























Errol had a nasty habit of calling his Mother a four-letter word, which shocked Earl Conrad from there first meeting.  How can you use that word about your mother?" Conrad asked.  The ---- gave me nothing but trouble when I was a kid, she made my life miserable, I hated the ----".


The streets and parks have these clever garden sculptures scatted throughout the town.

St Peters Anglican Church built in 1838

The old horse and carriage setting the scean in an old town.

An old trunk of a tree made into a tree house, very cool.

Everyone was out of there vans watching the Typhoon RV Glider flying over the lake until it landed in the lake and the guy had to walk over water to retrieve it but it was a good show while it lasted.

Sun sets over the less than flattering Sticking Lagoon as it was once called, then later changed to Lake Dulverton.  The lake covers 133 hectares and has often been recorded as being dry over the past 180 years.  The only reason there is any water in the lake at all is its filled using bore water and contained by a bund wall.

We had a lovely few days strolling the town and sitting around a fire sculling a few wines while Des sucked on his XXXX.