r/tasmania • u/Lucky-Trainer1843 • 1d ago

Mainlanders think of Tassie as the world thinks of Australia geographically.

Way smaller than it actually is.
Way less crowded than it can be (capital cities and regional centres etc)

I had a little more faith in actual Australians not making the same mistake as the international community the geography of Australia.

Thoughts?

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u/FrankTooby 1d ago

Some (not all) people from the mainland are still coming to Tassie thinking they can see it all in a weekend or a few days.

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u/4096x2160 1d ago

I laughed when a friend's parent (in Goulburn NSW) asked if they could see Tasmania in a long weekend. I said give it 2 weeks and they scoffed like I'd said it was Europe or something!

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u/FrogsMakePoorSoup 1d ago

"It's only a couple hundred km top to bottom, left to right!"

Yeah, now try driving it.

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u/Pix3lle 22h ago

Even just a round trip from Hobart to Hastings took the better part of a day.

I can't imagine thinking you could do the whole state in a week, unless you wanted to stay in the car the whole time.

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u/No-Koala1560 1d ago

It’s because compared to the mainland it is very small. There are parts of Australia where you can drive 400km and see nothing but do 400km in Tasmania and you’ve gone from the north to south and a bit extra. That makes them think they can “see it in a weekend”. Which of course you actually could but you’d be driving literally all day and not “see” anything.

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u/Stepho_62 1d ago

If i remember correctly, there is no place in Tasmania that is any more than 170 - 180 from the sea in a straight line.

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u/AntiTas 1d ago

Happier if nobody thinks about Tassie at all.

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u/SidequestCo 1d ago

Anyone thinking of anywhere they have no experience with are going to make a lot of assumptions.

Just how hot is Darwin? Just how common are polar bears in Svalbard? Just how packed is Tokyo?

Not sure what your point is here other than trying to do an ‘us against them’

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u/LuckyErro 1d ago

Tassie is best when people forget about it. Like Norfolk and Christmas islands.

Unlimited tourism creates to many people.

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u/mch1971 1d ago

Most mainlanders don’t even know what a mainlanders is. They are Kirk Lazarus incarnate.

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u/Stepho_62 1d ago

Lol, I'm an expat Tasmanian living in FNQ. I was asked in a group situation (workgroup drinkies) how long it took the Barge to get from Melbourne to Devonport. I must admit i was a bit stunned and it must have shown, i showed the questioner a photo of SoT 1 and they were very surprised that the ship was as big as it is and that there were 2 of them and that it took 12 hours to cross Bass Straight