Evening folks,
from a windy camp site “Stumpy’s Number 3” in Mount William National Park up in the North eastern corner of Tasmania.
The day started at Weldborough a very pleasant economical camp site. We had a leisurely morning with the last act being a repair to a section of telescoping tube on our recalcitrant car awning. For some reason Susan always gets nervous when I have a hammer in my hand. However I had the mislocated roll pin out and reinserted in next to no time.
We drove up the road to the town of Moorina (Truganini’s sister) and stopped off at the cemetery which has a Chinese monument. There was a large Chinese population in the area before the turn of the century to work the alluvial tin mines. Since the Telstra net work was functional at the cemetery we took the opportunity to perch our laptops on the trailer and post last night’s blog and generally goof off for 20 minutes. I checked the Telstra coverage map and it showed we have coverage here which is incorrect!
We stopped at Gladstone the last outpost of civilisation before the park and purchased 2 nights of camping.
We checked out 4 different camping areas before settling on this one. Not an auspicious start with a Laurel and Hardy moment. Actually it was just Laurel, my fault entirely. I unhitched the trailer and drove off without putting the jockey wheel down. Clunk the tow hitch hit the ground. There is no way we two can lift it since there would be over 100kg on the ball. I used the bottle jack to jack it up put some rocks under the coupling and a large rock under the jack to raise it up enough to get the wheel down. No damage done just some embarrassment. The first time that has happened when we have been away.
There is no water here and 2 long drops at each camp site. Actually there is a rainwater tank at the next camp it you get stuck and surprise, surprise 2 gas BBQ’s. Our camp ground has the pictured bore tap which I managed to get running by priming with sea water per the instructions. The water was ‘orrible very sulphurous. I returned to the sea and washed the bucket out and returned to camp with it full off sea water which is OK for dishes.
We ventured to the beach after nibbles and before tea. Two things stood out. Susan found a dead leafy sea dragon and to our amazement there was somebody out snorkelling in the windy conditions. They were last seen about 150 metres off shore as we decided to go for tea since the light was fading. I am sure they knew what they were doing but even so not an activity for the faint hearted.
Tea was the last of our squid which even though it was tentacles was very nice. I have honed my salt and pepper squid technique and hopefully the next batch will not be too far away.
As mentioned earlier the canvas is fairly rocking tonight in the wind. Based on past experience I am sure it will be ok. We will stay here for 2 nights. We have a house inspection at Golconda on Monday. It is a place Susan finds very interesting and since we are in the area we will go for a look.
We had a play around with the back of the trailer this afternoon as we were here fairly early and have some firm plans on what we need to construct to make our life easier on the road with respect to pack up/setup times and cooking when we use the swag. I am actually quite excited about it.
Anyway a long blog for a day where not much happened a sure indication of no internet connection!
Night folks
Cheers Simon
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