Gidday all,

Woke up to a cool, cloudy morning in Forth, on our first day back in Tassie. Later that morning, good old mate, Rodney turned up bearing gifts of fresh picked berries and vegies from his home garden. The best welcome we could hope for. Spent some time catching up, then after Rod left, relaxed for the rest of the day.

 

 

A friend from Sydney, who was in Tassie and due to leave in a few days contacted us and we arranged for them to come and camp up before they left. The day after they arrived we found out Pete Murray and Thirsty Merc were playing at the local pub just over the river, so they had great entertainment for their last night on the Island. He had a fold up electric scooter with him and I tried it out with a trip to the servo just outside the campground, great little bike, very handy.

 

 

 

After our Sydney friends left and the camper crowds from the concert dwindled we also hit the road. Rod had put us onto a quiet camp spot he knew of inland from Bernie. The location will be known as secret camp as mainly only locals know of it so far, and it’s better that way.

Found the spot and parked up, no one in sight, these are the spots, remote, with a crystal clear stream, bubbling over multi coloured rocks on the edge of an ancient forest with man ferns   and wildflowers.

The area had a large flat on the bend of the stream, where we had pulled up, and another area more private further upstream. After a few days the weekend was approaching and we anticipated some locals might come down to camp, so decided to move upstream to the other area.

Glad we did because as thought, on the weekend campers arrived, but we were happy and private in our new location.

Spent eight days there, a wonderful spot that we will return to no doubt. The time came to return to Forth as we were expecting some mail to turn up at the post office there. So reluctantly we packed up and headed out.

Back at Forth we picked up mail and caught up with Rod again. He said he was going to Lake Cethena with a couple of mates fishing for the Australia day weekend and invited us to tag along. We agreed and set that as our next location.