Tarraleah Estate

... somewhere in the universe, but they really were quite lovely..overly friendly. maybe i was one of the wayward souls needing to be put back on the 'right' path...The place did have a strange appeal to it and the warm invitations to stay for coffee were reluctantly declined for fear of never leaving again. Sadly I couldn't help but think of The wicker man whilst i was here. Sorry!

A good thing about this road trip was getting off the beaten tourist track. The unveiled sights ...

... that we had a slow puncture. We carry 2 spares so swapped one over and still OK with a good spare left. Tasmania, like many parts of Australia, is suffering drought conditions and this is obvious in the low levels of many of the lakes. This photo of a boat launch site at Arthurs Lake gives one an idea of the effects of the drought on the lakes. It is beautiful countryside and the scenery is quite Alpine in places. One short walk took us through ...

... coin de l'oeil qu'on l'a immédiatement frappé, complètement impossible à éviter. Pour la première de nos vies à Patrick et moi, on a tué un animal sur la route (le wallaby est mort sur le coup).

On arrive à Lake St. Clair le coeur gros et on monte la tente. On reçoit de la visite pendant le processus : les wallabies et les possums se promènent autour de nous (ça nous réconcilie avec l'accident de tout à l'heure) et un quoll vient même me renifler les pieds ...

... Wall in the Wilderness' which is the ongoing project of an amazing sculptor/artist/woodcarver. It is expected to take over 5 years to complete and will measure 100 metres in length and 3 metres high using 10 different subjects to portray the history of the area. As a visitor one is not allowed to take any photographs so I found a website that had some and this is one of the details from the 'wall'. If you are ...

... up in Hobart on Friday afternoon, drove back to Bronte Lagoon with no problem and after a relaxing weekend of practising my casting (!!) we drove it 200km to the aptly named village of Snug, for an overnight stay ready to drive onto a ferry to Bruny Island in the morning. This is Liz now and I had a relaxing time in the lakes country while David was attending classes. I had an interesting ...

... dollars to make it into a tourist attraction. It would be a beautiful quiet spot to relax for a few days; very upmarket accommodation; they have converted all the old buildings to give a choice of accommodation options. So we continued, well-fed, happy and relaxed, until a few kms on the car started to give us problems and we broke down on double white lines on a hilly, windy road; oh dear. When we stopped we saw a trail ...

... Septic Tank) would call backpacking is called "bushwalking" over here. Friday night we bought some fuel, arranged our shuttle service and booked a trip on the ferry to shorten the length of our bushwalk to 65 km. The ferry across Lake St Clair shortens the bushwalk from 80 km to 65 km with a 20 minute boat ride. Due to some dodgy planning by Andrew, we only allotted ourselves 4 days to do this track, whereas 6 days is the norm. After final preparations ...

... It would have probably taken me about two extra hours. When I got to the park, to explored for a few hours, took some pictures, and went into the bush to find a place to set up my tent. I never saw so many stars in my life, when I looked to the sky that night. Sun. 8th- 65km I had pushed myself pretty hard the first day, but luckily, most of Sunday was spent going down hill. I decided to work my self towards Waratah, a small ...

Went for a lovely walk along the beach at Henty Dunes after breakfast, decided it would be a good idea to do the long-jump seeing as we had lots of sand to play with, it was a close-run thing between Thomas and Carlos but Carlos' second attempt was a metre longer so we declared him champ; he's now in training for a late entry ...