View across to Maria Island from Triabunna
A million dollar hanging home with swimming pool
View of said home to Maria Island
Susan's seafood chowder lunch
Salt and Pepper squid for me
Your scribe snapped walking along the wharf at Triabunna
Hi Folks,
Our day off today and Laurel and Hardy have returned with a vengeance. Our plan was to visit Maria Island about a 150km of easy drive from here. The trouble was that was our whole plan. We stopped for the fruit and vegetable shopping at Sorell Country Market and i took the opportunity to google our destination and the ferry service. The ferry service only runs Monday/Tuesday and it is passengers and bicycles only. Hmm a problem. We proceeded through Buckland before stopping at Orford for morning tea at a nice cafe by the estuary. We drove on to Triabunna a town I only know about through the news because Gunns were closing the chip mill there and it has been bought by Jan Cameron who used to own Kathmandu (the shops not the country) We drove around the town and surrounds and i visited the wharf and tourist information centre while Susan suddenly overcome by tiredness had a catnap in the car.
I now have a plan for our next visit on a Monday or Tuesday when the ferry is running. Book before hand and arrive at 10 with bicycles, lunch and drinks. Travel to island and cycle around before returning on 400 ferry. Planning time 5 minutes! However if you wait till October you get an extra 2 hours on the Island so that is worth considering.
We returned to Orford for lunch and drove around the coastline for a short distance before returning to Cambridge for a short burst of shopping and for my laptop (closed fortunately) to fall out of the car onto the bitumen when Susan opened the rear door. It was fine apart from a dent in the corner. The advantage of having a sturdy Dell magnesium frame which is just as well because it has had a few belts in its time.
We completed the shopping for the resort at Sorell and headed home after a couple of pizzas from Heat.
I spent 3 hours this evening trying to figure out why the 3G/modem router arrangement in the car wouldn't work today. It is designed to give us maximum range when we are out in the bush with external aerials etc. We haven't used it for months preferring to plug the modem straight into the laptop since the Telstra coverage in Tassie has been pretty good apart from today. We can also plug our phone in for extended range as well. Anyway I upgraded the firmware for the router by about 27 versions, reset it, put in wireless password, moved the channel to 13 to get it away from the resorts wireless and knocked the wireless speed back to 54mbps from 150 for better workability. It seems to be working so i will put it all back in the car tomorrow on my day off. 2 in a row woohoo.
Cheers Simon
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