Getting ready for hiking in Hobart...
Trip Start
Jan 11, 2008
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Trip End
Feb 22, 2008
Hobart,
Australia
Tuesday, January 22, 2008
We spent about an hour finalizing our two food bags that were to be airplane dropped in Melaleuca. Tassair, a small local airline, operated flights in Tasmania and served a lot of trampers who wanted to fly in to Melaleuca and start the South Coast track there. They also did food drops, which we needed for the mid-point of our hike in Melaleuca. There office was right next to the Hobart Airport, so very convenient for us to drop off our prepared food bags (had got them together at David's house in Brisbane). After running back into the Hobart terminal to get some alcohol and extra goodies for the bag, we finally handed in our two food bags with instructions for Tassair to also bring us some Shellite (white gas) and the day we needed our package delivered- we had to also provide a container for that gas so we left an empty plastic water bottle with the airline.
Then a night spent wandering around Hobart, shopping a bit as we still needed to fill up the food bag we would carry for the first 5 days of our hike, sleeping again in the same Astor Hotel we used on our previous trip. The next morning early, a 4 hour bus ride to Cockle Creek, the start of our hike...
