Part 6 As far south as we can go to Adventure Bay then Bruny Island & Port Arthur.
Greeveston, An old timber town. We called into the Old Bank restaurant and breakfast was as i said to the waitress “Worth the drive from Brisbane”
Lyn’s was a sweet decadent dish of apple and fig crumble
For me...
Tasmanian Smoked salmon, poached eggs, braised greens, burnt butter + Sage hollandaise, mixed greens, Huon Valley apples, pickled red cabbage, balsamic + fennel seeded mustard vinaigrette.
Here 2 French ships arrived in 1792 & 93 looking for the lost explorer La Perouse.
Walked the beaches and headlands and managed to sneak up on a Fur Seal.
Dinner was at the RSL in Dover, the most southern.
Wild camp No 31: Forest Plantations
Today: 169Kms Total: 2704 Kms
Friday 11th March 2022
The Boat Building school at Frankin.
Trying to preserve a dying art.
In Cygnet caught up with our Supplier for Wallace Cooktops and Diesel Water and air heaters - Nic and P Tanner and team.
Camp No 32: Nic’s Place
Today: 61 Kms
Total: 2,765 Kms
Saturday 12th March 2022
Yes its Bruny Island, and the weather perfect.
Feasted on Oysters as a late lunch followed at the next stop with Cheese and Cider.
The area has changed little since 1792, and was the fresh watering point for captain Furneaux ( in the ship Adventure 1773), Cook in the Resolution 1777, and captain Willian Bligh in the Botany in 1788.
On Bligh’s visit accompanying him was the expedition artist Lt George Tobin who depicted the area showing the two trees.
Touching history.
In Adventure bay, walked the track to 3
Wild Camp No 33: Our View from a hill side wild camp
Today: 100 Kms
Total: 2,865 Km
Sunday 13th March 2022
Back to Adventure Bay and checked out the Bligh Museum, could have spend many hours here.
Completed in 1838 , the Cape Bruny Lighthouse is the second oldest in Australia. It was the 4th lighthouse built and was so after the convict transport ship George III was lost with all 134 lost their lives.
It was designed and oversteered by convict John Archer.
Only in 1996 , after 158 years was it decommissioned.
Camp No 34: At the end of the beach at Cloudy bay in the Nat Parks Camp / $10
Today: 143 Kms
Total: 3,008 Km
Monday 14th March 2022
Rain Rain Rain. Hence following a dozer Oysters Kilpatrick for ‘breakfast’ at get Shucked we decided to head to Hobart with a plan.
1. The Australian Antarctic Division - CLOSED
2.The Womens Factory - A convict thing - CLOSED.
So we drive towards Port Arthur.
Wild Camp 35. Today 191 Kms; Total : 3,199 Kms
Tuesday 15th March 2022 - Port Arthur
The steel structure at left represents the ‘Lady Franklin’ below.
It is a 3 mastered barque of 269 Tons, built here in 1842.
Wild Camp 36.
Lyn spotted a great camp overlooking the bay
Today 53 Kms
Total : 3,253 Kms
The non-denominational Church so all could pray.
The foundation stone was laid by Lieutenant Governor George Arthur in 1836.
In the afternoon we drove and walked into the few remaining remnants of the Juvenile Penitentiary.
This is the sea wall looking towards the Island of the Dead where both convicts and the free were buried.
The free buried on the hill, the convicts in the gully !
Camp 37 in the National Park at Lime Bay - A$13 for 2 campers
Today 69 Kms Total : 3,322 Kms
Thursday 17th March 2022 - Port Arthur - Coal Mines
Here they laboured underground digging coal.
If you played up then it was solitary confinement in this space not much bigger than a coffin - sometimes for months.
Wild Camp 38 : Down a forestry track - only a couple of Ks from tomorrow walk to Cape Raoul
Today 39 Kms
Total : 3,361 Kms
It’s an adventurous walk but also a MUST DO !
Cape Raoul is in the far distance and the track - up and down - follows the cliff faces
The end of the walk and down below a seal colony ( the white blob)
Sandstone calligraphy - 60 Million years old !
And the star today goes to My Lady.
With a pending knee replacement operation booked for about 6 weeks she walked 29,274 steps = 15.8 Kms, and the equivalent of 80 stories of steps .
AND...still smiling
Camp 39 : Hobart Showgrounds $25 - tomorrow the Salamanca markets
Today 120 Kms
Total : 3,482 Kms