Day 321 Woodbridge Wednesday 14th December 2011
Panorama of the Neck, Click for big picture
Bad hair, sunglasses and shave day
Cloudy Bay
Berry farm at Adventure Bay. William Bligh planted first apple tree hereabouts in Tasmania 1788
The lookout at the neck
Top of the neck lookout
Looking up the steps
Bruny Island cheese
Bruny Island cheese
Bruny Island cheese
Smokehouse
View to Cloudy Bay
View back to the neck
Click for the big picture. The narrative speaks for itself.
Hi Folks,
Nick and his entourage from Bruny Island cheese showed up this morning. After exchanging pleasantries and Susan getting Nick to sign his page in the Providore book we left them to it!
We caught the 930 ferry to Bruny Island. As we were proceeding in the line to the ramp it looked as if we were going to be on the top deck. However we were halted to allow some interlopers who didn't have to queue to hop up top. It was of course Princess Mary and Crown Prince Frederick plus their minders. I did shoot some video however not being a papparazzi I will respect their privacy besides the minister for good taste has declared that the audio commentary is not suitable for publication!
After disembarking we drove to the northern part of the island which is probably less visited by tourists. We found a very nice beach, Nebraska Beach. We looped around back almost to the start and visited the Bruny Island Smokehouse. We purchased some smoked trout, mussels and salted sardines in oil. We then turned southwards and called into Bruny Island Cheese. Tess and Halsey were working and Tess popped out for a quick chat and gave us some visitor tips.
We proceeded to the neck that joins the North and South parts of the isle and climbed the steps to the top of the lookout and then down onto the beach. This is the premium penguin viewing area although until dusk. Further south we called into Bruny Island Fudge. More calories for the waist line!
We travelled to Adventure Bay visited by Cook and Bligh in the 1700's.
We took a forestry road up over the hill and drove down to Cloudy Bay. A very picturesque spot and worthy of an overnight visit.
We drove northwards with our eye on the time since the Cheese factory stops serving food at 4. A pity since we didn't have time to drive down to Cape Bruny. We decided to return in the near future for say 3 days /2 nights. There are a few good walks and 3 days should see the island justice.
We ate pizza at the cheesery along with a glass of Pinot and a coffee. We then joined the 530 ferry queue and were soon back at Woodbridge.
The local CFS turned up to supervise a burn off on the property over the back. It all went a bit quicker than my burn offs. But then I didn't have to worry about burning down the countryside.
Tea was nibblies bought today at the various food outlets along with the 2007 Viridian 2007 Reisling I bought the other day. Another tough day on the road!
Night folks
Simon
PS I forgot to mention the ferry trip back which was marked by the lemming like behaviour of the cruising yacht race from Kettering Marina. Whilst acknowledging that "power gives way to sail" I think some of the sailors need to appreciate that a dirty great barge loaded with vehicles is not overly manoeuvreable. One half wit decided to sail straight across in front of the barge and passed just in front of us with the barge blowing its foghorn for a good 10 seconds, Crazy! Why would you have the course in the path of the barge anyway with the whole ocean to sail in.
The Ferry
The neck. The unknown headland is Fluted Cape. Woodbridge is not "over there somewhere" That is actually part of Bruny Island. Cook and Bligh also thought Bruny was part of the mainland.
Cloudy Bay
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