Sandra from Sydney

Yesterday we visited our firiends again, and had a look at the spots that were free along the beachfront at Swimcart Beach on the Bay of Fires.  There were several spots free this time.  We pac...

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Peter insisted I go to the doctor's on Tuesday to have my knee and shoulder checked again.  The doctor said he is sure it is just soft tissue damage which can take up to eight weeks to heal, and...

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A fair bit of the drive to St Helens from Bicheno is along the coast or at least gives views of the coast so it is a pretty drive.  We booked in at the caravan park for a couple of nights and af...

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After a day of good soaking rain on Thursday, yesterday started off fine and sunny.  But no sooner had Marilyn and I put out all our washing than it clouded over again and started to rain.  So ...

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On Monday we took advantage of the sunny day to do the washing then I spent the rest of the afternoon catching up on letters to the family and printing out Nathan’s letters to his friends...

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The drive to Swansea took us through more lovely forest areas, going out towards the coast.  Then we turned south again.  Swansea is a holiday village with beautiful beaches and sea ...

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It began to rain at teatime last night and kept raining steadily overnight.  This morning was still overcast and just 9 deg when we left Ross at 10am.  The avenue of elm trees leading to the h...

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This morning I took some more bread out and fed the coots and ducks.  Eventually 1 swan deigned to join in but the swans aren’t as interested as the smaller birds.  No geese today.  They al...

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We had a ‘late leave’ pass from the caravan park in Hobart so that we could go to the shops after packing up the vans ready to leave.  I remained in the van to do some emails and catch up o...

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Louisa’s Walk is another interactive drama about a female convict Louisa.  Her name has been changed but her story is based on a real person.  It is truly heart-tugging and again brings the ...

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After two unsuccessful attempts at getting seats on the cruise from Bruny Island we had a discussion yesterday about whether to try again for today or Tuesday, or perhaps consider the other crui...

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The cruise around Bruny Island was booked out again, and so was ‘Louisa’s Story’, an interactive dramatic walk that tells the story of a woman sentenced to transportation.  We visited the...

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Again we were ready to leave by 7.15.  The sky appeared overcast and so we just hoped that the weather would improve as the morning wore on.  But it didn’t, in fact it began to rain.  So we...

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Sorry again about the quality of the map - it's rather embarrisingly poor, but I still haven't had time to go through and type the names and redo the maps.  Tracing them is so difficult that I...

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Everything is still very sore and I must have twisted my right knee as well as the right ankle when I landed because I am having a lot of pain in that now.  There is more movement in my arm tho...

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These were two days we had set aside in Hobart for Marilyn to visit sites related to her family history research and for me to visit some miniaturists here in Tassie.  Yesterday afternoon I wen...

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We had a lovely morning and early afternoon yesterday, worshipping at the church where a former Pastor our our church has now moved.  The members were really friendly and there was also a pot-lu...

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The 58 metre sandstone shot tower, just 11.25 kms from Hobart, is the only circular stone shot tower in the southern hemisphere.  The sandstone was obtained from a disused convict quarry nearby...

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First thing this morning I was outside the caravan as the man in the cabin next door was leaving.  I saw one of our little antechinus friends dash from under the cabin and go under his car just...

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It was a nice warm morning (20deg) much to the disgust of one of the staff here who was on her way to clean one of the cabins.  Clearing showers are forecast and as we drove off towards Richmon...

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Leaving the lake and our friendly neighbour we enjoyed the short drive to the turnoff for Lake St Clair.  It was paradoxical in the middle of the bush to see a sign pointing to a helipad to one...

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Our exploration of the Western Wilderness is nearly over but by no means comprehensive.  You could spend so much more time in each of the places we’ve been to.  But we need to move on. Unfor...

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Only 8 deg this morning and very misty.  I didn’t go to bed until midnight last night after putting through six loads of washing and hanging it all out in the dark and the others were late to...

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Most of us slept in this morning.  We didn’t wake up until 8.30 and Marilyn slept until 9am.  Rick always has trouble sleeping so I don’t know what time he woke up.  We had a lazy morning...

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Today started a lovely crisp 6deg and on the way to Strahan for our river cruise it dropped to 3deg in some parts.  We were glad that we’d dressed quite warmly!  The scenery as always though...

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