On Wednesday 10th Feb we drove through the Tamar Valley, past many vineyards, to Launceston, where we picked up Grannie and Poppa and headed to the East Coast. Bryan and Julie are joining us for ten days and the girls have been excited about the visit. We reached the coast at St Helens early afternoon and went a bit further north to the beautiful Bay of Fires. Early explorers named the bay after seeing Aboriginal fires along the shore. We turned off the dirt track to a beach called "Cosy Corner" and here we had our first free-camping night and a real camp fire!! (and real pit toilets...) The beach was amazing with red lichen-covered granite boulders sitting amongst the waves, and white-as-white sand that was coarse and pebbly at the top of the beach and fine and powdery along the shore.
Hi Batesons! Looks like you guys are having an awesome time! Glad to see!
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Hi guys,
ReplyDeleteFinally worked out how to post a comment. You are probably on your way home by now! It looks like you got away ok and have been having a great time. Kaz and I also stopped in Bermagui and Eden some years ago on a road trip we did to Lakes Entrance. Eden was a favourite of ours. You seemed to get to Melbourne pretty quickly. We have also seen a little of Tassie and loved every bit; don't forget to try all the food and stop at all the berry farms, honey farms, fish farms, cheese factories, chocolate factories, etc. Don't worry, we have been going to work every day to make sure the country doesn't stop while you are out playing in our big backyard,
Neil.
Love the pic of Hannah dragging seaweed up the beach. She looks like a castaway.
ReplyDeleteWell. I may have learned how to post a comment too. So glad to be able to follow your (almost)every move. Our old ship the Explorer is some where alongside in Hobart, could be Elizabeth wharf, but its probably a bit late now, also my old friends Don and Margie McIntyre. All following you with interest and envy...Donald
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