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| Triabunna camp |
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| Tonight's camp |
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| New camera wide view |
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| New camera same scene full optical zoom |
Hi Folks,
We set an alarm at 7 this morning sort of intending to go on the ferry to Maria Island. However in the end the cost was $90 for both of us return with our bikes which we considered too much. Instead we opted to tidy our kit up which wasn't overly exciting. We dawdled and left after I had a shower in the pay shower at the visitor centre $4 for 3 minutes. Not a bad idea a few more of the towns with free camps need to invest in them. We also had some good value fish and chips before we left from the van next to the pub. Triabunna is doing it pretty tough with a lot of people out of work with the mill closure. I got an ear bash about the "bloody greens" from an otherwise pleasant lady at the visitor centre.
Travelling north we stopped at Swansea for coffee at the Onyx Cafe which is where we had coffee on our last visit. Speaking of coffee our plunger pot is now broken after several years of stirling service. Looks like it got squashed in the cutlery box. While on the subject of broken my bodgy repair on the awning stay failed so i shall have to rethink that.
We drove into the National Park at Freycinet to get a feel of the campsites. Susan rang them this morning and they had no powered sites until Friday. We enquired in person, inspected the 2 that were available and a good one that wasn't for "ages" We chose one which is actually available tomorrow night so we paid for 6 nights. There are many unpowered sites that are tent only and a handful for camper trailer unpowered but being quite shady i don't think we would be able to keep up with our power needs using the solar. Besides it means we can also run the coffee machine! The powered sites are $16 per night plus you get a shower too! In our time there I might have some time to read the 297 page manual for my new $290 Nikon camera. Tonight's pictures are courtesy of it. The pictures aren't as good as my Canon $1000 dollar SLR and the video not as good as my Panasonic $1200 video camera. Funny that. However it will be much better for hiking. I just need to get a case for it.
We drove out of the park and are now in a little NP campsite called River and Rocks next to Moulting lagoon, quite popular with a fair few people here. There is one long drop dunny and a few wood BBQ's. It is actually not a bad site.
We have had continuing discussion about our mode of travel without being any closer to a decision. We need to actually try out some different campers. However none of them will be cheaper and i take the view you could have bought a hell of a lot of fuel with the money you spent. We have three modes of travel. Residential stays, overnight stays in the swag and extended camps in the trailer. What we need is to make the overnight stays much more efficient. Maybe we just need to rethink our packing again. We certainly could get rid of some more stuff and make more space. However we have things we left at home this time that would also be nice to have along, i.e. boat and motor, water heater, chain saw and they might jump into that space. Anyway my brain hurts now so it is bedtime.
Night folks
Simon
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