Gidday all,

Left Fortescue Bay early morning, headed out to Cape Surville, another forestry track, got to within two k from the cape and a fallen tree over  the track. This time the battery chainsaw came out and had the track clear in no time. Then the road became muddy with large holes, into 4wd and on we went, beautiful view welcomed us at the end.

Leaving the Peninsula we headed northwest to Dodgers Ferry and Sorell then miner roads northward.

                                                     the view from Cape Surville

                                                           some of the track there

Morning has broken

Gidday all,

Left Lime Bay and headed south, took some interesting looking roads and had a tour around the forested hillsides ending up at Roaring Beach, we stayed the night and headed on in the morning. More winding dirt tracks with beautiful scenery later we had passed through Nubeena and Highcroft making our way to Remarkable cave at the southern tip of Tasman Peninsula.

Heading north again we turned off and made our way to Fortescue Bay to camp for the night.

                                                                   artwork in nature

                                                          beautiful shapes in the rocks

                                                             contemplating life

                                                                 stars in the ocean

                                                                  a great gate post

                                             dear grazing in the paddock near Highcroft

                                                          old farmhouse up at Stormlea

                                             view from Maingon Bay near Remarkable cave

                                                                 Remarkable cave

                                                        Cape Raoul and the candlesticks

Interesting houses in Tasmania

Gidday all,

Left Pirates Bay and headed west to Lime Bay State Reserve, called into the convict coal mines ruins at Saltwater river. This was a coal mine where the most difficult prisoners were sent to labour and be punished. Conditions were worse than Port Arthur apparently.

Headed on to the Reserve and camped up.          

                                 the rammed earth information structure at the coal mine site

                                                                 ruins of the barracks

                                                                 early sketch of the site

                                                                 stone walls in decay

                                                       grand detail in the stonework

                                                        a beautifully site for misery

                                                               one of the isolation cells

                                                                   gloomy corridors

Getting a feel for the place

Gidday all,

Left Meetus Falls and headed south along the coast on a small dirt road coming out at Dunally , at the head of the Tasman Peninsula. Stopped at the jetty near Pirates Bay, a fishing charter came in and showed their catch of tuna. We went back up the road and had fish and chips for tea, I had fish and Din had the chips, then pulled up at Pirates Bay and camped for the night. Will explore the Peninsula some more in the next few days.                     

                                                one very spiky bridge built in convict times

                                                      one of the roads we took along the coast

                                          there's a sailboat in the middle if you can see it

                                    tesselated rocks near eaglehawk neck on the Tasman Peninsula

                                                    some of the coastline on the Peninsula

                                                            showing off the catch

 filleting up the tuna

                                                        what is left of the big fish

                                                         what they call the Tasman arch

The Devils Kitchen

Gidday all,

South from Campbelltown ducked off to explore Meetus Falls, nice little shelter with fireplace and heaps of firewood, seemed like a good place to spend a few days over Easter. So we moved in.

It’s an out of the way place so only saw a couple of people the whole time. So peaceful and relaxing, no phone service though, which was okay.

Took advantage of the fireplace and wood as temps ranged from 0 overnight to a balmy 13 during the days. Let all the Easter crowds travel home and headed off on Tuesday.

                         

                                                           huge log from past logging days

                                          Din wants this house mainly because of it's fireplaces

                                                             relaxing in front of the fire

                                                                   our easter camp

                                                  did some washing and turned on the dryer

                                                            found our favourite bread

                                                           trying out our new heater

                                                                        Meetus Falls

                                                        trying out the battery chainsaw

                                                                        the journey so far

                                                                the fire was nice

Moved in for a few days