I hadn't really planned exactlty what I was going to do on this final day. I'd sort of left it open, just in case I'd not made it to the Callington Mill, or wanted to have a further wander around Hobart.

But as the day rolled around, or rather the previous night when I was trying to work out what to get up to; and sort of failed to really decide what to do exactly.

I decided to have another drive through the Highland Lakes area of Tasmania as I really enjoyed venturing through this part of Tasmania, so I left Old Beach and headed up the Midland Highway.

Heading for the C526 Interlaken Road. Which I'd driven along some of but turned off to head towards Oatlands. This time I drove the length of it, and it's a really varied road. It's a country back road, but it goes up into the hills, but passes through open cultivated plains which look like they belong in a mystical scene. There were some cattle in some of these large open plains and some; just the grass swaying in the wind.

Climbing back up in elevation I remembered to engage four wheel drive so I stayed on the straight and true.
I also discovered that the road is not very wide, I mean, it's wide enough for one vehicle.
But I encountered some people in utes going in the opposite direction and I don't think they were expecting to encounter a rogue Victorian coming towards them because they did not pull very far over to the side of the road to give much clearance between our vehicles as we passed.

Until I got to Miena they were the only people I saw.

At Miena I pulled in to the Miena Dam lookout to stop for breakfast / lunch, having skipped the former when I'd departed Old Beach.
I'd not fancied exploring Hobart for breakfast, nor ducking into one of the few towns I'd passed to go looking for some breakfast.
The previous day when I'd been at the Salamanca Markets I'd got some Bruny Island ham when I'd purchased some bacon and cheese. While in Wursthaus Kitchen I'd also bought a 1/4 of a loaf of bread and some chevre goat's cheese, intending to eat it with my dinner that night, but found myself quite full from the quiche. So that became my breakfast / lunch. Sat on the tailgate of my ute looking out at a fantastic view.
A few cars did pull up while I was having my picnic of food, most seemed to stop, look at the view, seem perplexed by me and then depart after a moment.

This pause in the day's driving did allow me a nice pause in the day, to eat and take in the view, much more of a pause than the people who drove up, only to seemingly be disappointed by the vista before them.

Leaving Miena and driving north on the Highland Lakes Road, which was mostly sealed, and I think would be a great driver's road if it was all sealed.

The road was soon climbing even higher in elevation, I passed a sign not too long after that stated it was the highest road or highway in Tasmania at 1251 metres.

As I began descending down the other side however I began to encounter more cars, more people enjoying this driver's road, or maybe heading up into the highlands for fishing, or whatever else there was to be had for adventure.

I had decided to go to Launceston for a bit of an explore. But after long, though not uninteresting drive there...I drove through the city and back out the other side without really encountering anything that really grabbed my attention.

For the rest of the day I mostly drove around seeing other sights until it was time to board the Spirit of Tasmania.