Tasmania 20 St Helens

Tasmania 20 St Helens - Part 20 of 33 of a road trip from Brisbane to Tasmania, returning via Victoria's Great Ocean Road, Central Victoria, Great Alpine Road and Canberra.
We spent three nights at Bicheno and spent the intervening days in visiting the surrounding areas. The first day we drove north along the coast to the regional town of St Helens on Georges Bay. The road follows the coast and provides pleasant ocean views for much of the journey.
The south eastern boundary of Georges Bay is a long and partly populated peninsula that leads to a fishing jetty at St Helens Point and a headland of colourful lichen covered boulders. We started our visit there, then drove back and through St Helens to Binalong Bay.
The southern headland of this bay is the start of the long and picturesque Bay of Fires that leads towards the north eastern tip of Tasmania at Cape Portland. This headland has more of the huge lichen covered boulders that we saw at St Helens Point. There was also a very useful, to the locals anyway, boat shelter among the rocks on the point.
We returned to examine St Helens township including its commercial fishing jetty that juts out into Georges Bay and enjoyed the murals that are a feature of this town.
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