Day 365! A whole year away.
After a perfect calm morning awakening we drove down to Adventure Bay which is the premier sandy beach, holiday shack destination on the island.
Today's exercise was the Fluted Cape walk. We climbed steadily from the land side and worked up a good sweat as there was very little breeze. From sea level to the top of the cape is around 272 meters. Once at the top we were rewarded with a magnificent view and a gentle sea breeze. Perfect conditions to sit for a while and consume our sandwiches for lunch. The rest of the walk was down hill along the cliff top taking in views of Penguin Island and the bay.
From Adventure Bay we travelled back up to Bruny Island cheese for an excellent expresso bearing in mind we don't have enough power to run our machine at the moment so are feeling deprived (it's a tough life).
From there we journeyed down to Lunawanna the site of our evenings entertainment "Hoppy's Jamboree" The pub at Lunawanna where we were to have tea didn't exist so we journeyed back up the road to Alonnah to the Bruny Island Hotel where we just managed to squeeze in on an outside table and were able to get a meal since we ordered before the kitchen was open. Fully booked as usual according to the waitress. The meal was good and we sat overlooking the water albeit with a road and parked cars in between in the late afternoon sun.
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| Fluted Cape 272m |
We returned to Lunawanna. Julie whose property we are staying on met us at the hall and we were escorted back to a local house for some more food (2 teas in one day). The evenings entertainment was a parade of locals performing music. The content and the talent was varied but was most enjoyable. We were invited since Linda is a member of the Ukulele group who were performing.
We left at 10 and returned to our campsite. Susan drove since i had had a couple of ales and the police had been out in force during the day. It was a slow drive home with Susan adding a possum to her road kill score. She now leads 3-1. I should add the dirt roads here are fairly rough and a lot worse than when we were here before Christmas.
Tomorrow the CWA market and a walk i think.
cheers Simon
Quarantine Bay
Fluted Cape
Ukuleles
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