{"id":11359,"date":"2025-04-12T04:07:26","date_gmt":"2025-04-12T11:07:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/petersontravels.com\/?p=11359"},"modified":"2026-04-26T10:04:36","modified_gmt":"2026-04-26T17:04:36","slug":"freycinet-national-park-tasmania-tasmanian-devils-and-wineglass-bay","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/petersontravels.com\/index.php\/2025\/04\/12\/freycinet-national-park-tasmania-tasmanian-devils-and-wineglass-bay\/","title":{"rendered":"Freycinet National Park, Tasmania; Tasmanian Devils and Wineglass Bay"},"content":{"rendered":"

We got up fairly early in Strahan as we had a 6 hour drive ahead of us.\u00a0 This drive went from the “Wild West Coast” to what turned out to be the “Mild East Coast”.\u00a0 The drive was not without its challenges, with about 60km of wet dirt roads spread amongst the curvy windy asphalt covered in road kill.\u00a0 Have I not mentioned the road-kill previously?<\/p>\n

So, basically, do NOT drive at dusk or dawn, particularly if you don’t want a few dents and a bloody bumper.\u00a0 The road-kill here is EVERYWHERE!\u00a0 There are some sections of road where you’ll see a dead Wallaby (or some other animal which can’t be readily identified) about every 50 meters!\u00a0 It’s terribly disappointing and quite gross!\u00a0 No photos were taken, sorry for you lovers of blood and guts!<\/p>\n

There was a spot off the road in the middle of nowhere where some guy has built wooden sculptures inside a building called “The Wall”.\u00a0 We didn’t enter the building, but we did take a couple photos of his sculptures outside on the light poles.\u00a0 First up is this grasshopper.<\/p>\n

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I’m not sure what this one is, perhaps a June Bug?\u00a0 We didn’t have time to go inside to see what “The Wall” was all about.\u00a0 I don’t think it had anything to do with Donald Trump., but likely had a lot to do with some wacky tobacky.<\/p>\n

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As we neared our next home for three days we stopped at this wonderful overlook of Coles Bay, with vineyards in the foreground to simply to make it more beautiful.<\/p>\n

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Our ultimate destination was Saffire Freycinet<\/a><\/strong>, an ultra-luxury lodge adjacent to Freycinet National Park.<\/p>\n

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It’s truly incredible!\u00a0 Look at this view upon entering the lobby!<\/p>\n

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Equally impressive views from our room!\u00a0 Three days of this!\u00a0 It’s ruined us for Livermore!\u00a0 Ok, Livermore didn’t have that much going for it in the first place.<\/p>\n

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About an hour after arrival we had our first excursion, to visit the on-site Tasmanian Devil enclosure.\u00a0 They have 5 Devils here (4 females and 1 male) all of them around the age of five, and past the point of reproducing.\u00a0 The Devils are kept here to protect them from a nasty mouth cancer that actually is spread from Devil to Devil, and has caused them to become an endangered species.<\/p>\n

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One of the Devils (May) could hear us coming, and met us at the edge of the enclosure.\u00a0 She even gave us the famous Devil evil snarl!<\/p>\n

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The next moment she was perfectly cute.\u00a0 Just like a teenager!<\/p>\n

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Our guide, Ash, was here to feed them, with some dead possums they get from a spot that is known to have disease free animals.\u00a0 Here is a video of two of the females, May and Masie, absolutely attacking this poor dead possum.\u00a0 It was funny that some of the guests couldn’t handle watching this.<\/p>\n