Hi Folks
Today started with the obligatory patter of rain on the canvas, just enough to annoy me. However distant blue sky gradually crept towards and over us.
We departed the camp ground at 11 and headed toward Burnie Rob from Tarkine Retreats rang us as we were driving toward Burnie we met up just after 1200.
There were 3 others with Rob – Raven, Chris and Jessica- all younger than us. We headed south from Burnie for about an hour before turning onto a logging road. The road was fairly rocky and by my estimate we travelled about 20kms before parking.
We were a bit surprised to learn we had a 20-30 minute hike up the hill to the ‘retreat’ we also had to hurriedly pack our kit together , as we did this I could feel myself slipping well out of my comfort zone.
After a fallen log creek crossing and plenty of puffing we arrived we have a large tent with 2 camp stretchers and thin camp mattresses.
As we settled in I hightailed it back to the car to pick up some other items including one laptop seeing as we have 3G. It took about 12 minutes to descend back to the car and twice as long to return.
Tea was cooked and eaten and a fire lit. After some chit chat we retired to bed. There are 8 guests coming to stay tomorrow afternoon for 2 days. It should be an interesting few days until our Friday departure.
The countryside here is fairly typical of Tasmanian rain forest with white topped stringybarks towering and the rest filled in with beech myrtles,blackwood, sassafras, dogwoods, horizontal and huge manferns
Night folks
Simon.
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