corvus wrote:I would have thought that you could arrange for your Car Hire Company to have one or two in the car for you ? perhaps not.
This would be my thinking too.
If not, and it were me, I would order and pay for one over the phone and arrange with the shop I am buying from (several bushwalking shops in Hobart) to deliver to the car hire company well in advance.
So long as the car hire company knows what's going on, everything should run smoothly.
Another option would be to find out whether the car hire company would actually get one for you - they have offices in town as well, so they could call in to one of the stores and get it so it would be in your car when you go to pick it up.
But, as typical with this forum and the generosity of its members, looks like you have a better offer than trying to get the hire company to do something.
By the way, I was at the Frenchmans walk start 2 days ago and the car park there now is excellent. The little gravel area on the other side of the road was all covered over ready for regeneration, and the car park at the start of the walk is HUGE and a little shelter there too. We walked down to the Franklin and there was a really good flow. There's a track worker there doing some whipper snippering too.
Cheers!