Slept ok, awake normal time, breakfast, GPS, photos, blogging.
After breakfast I went up to put a load of washing on. Except there was already a load just started, and two other bags lined up in a queue. Sigh. So went up periodically to check that other people had been moving through the queue and eventually got my load on around 10:15. In the meantime I repacked my bag (which had become strewn all over the floor), Stu had a nice morning listening to music and drinking coffee and reading a book, and we looked at the map and decided what to do for the day. Took the washing out when it was done and hung out what we could.
Headed out around 11:35.
First stop was "Lookout Rock" in Bicheno. Dad got a great photo of the town here in 1971. But you guessed it, now there's trees. Actually it was possible he managed to get to the top of the rock there but I looked at the three metre high wall of rock (with a bunch of old logs braced to make a makeshift ladder going about two metres up) and was like yeah nope. Meanwhile Stu went for a drive and also got some more petrol.
View northeast from Lookout Rock
Yeah no way was I going to attempt to climb that
View over Bicheno from Lookout Rock
12:10 we headed west.
Our first stop was Campbell Town. We stopped there (around 13:25) and had some lunch (with actual real vegetation!).
The Foxhunters Return
Campbell Town Town Hall
What the? A drivethrough subway??
Brickhill Memorial Church. It's now a B&B called Haven on High.
Wood carvings of the history of Campbell Town by Eddie Freeman
Then headed south to Ross. Had a good long wander around Ross although had to go back to the bridge again a bit later because a great big cloud put it in shadow for ages.
Cute buildings in Ross
Ross Uniting Church
Ross Bridge
Ross Bridge
View south from Ross Bridge
69 miles to Hobart Town
Ross Bridge
Stu at Ross Bridge
The Ross Hotel
Ross Uniting Church from Ross Bridge
Ross Bridge
War memorial and Ross Town Hall
War memorial in Ross
Headed back to Campbell Town for photos of Red Bridge in afternoon light.
The Campbell Town Red Bridge
Elizabeth River at Red Bridge
The Campbell Town Red Bridge
Pedestrian bridge over the Elizabeth River
Then back to Bicheno. Stu put on an audiobook - Diary of a Bookseller by Shaun Bythell.
View south from Devil's Corner winery
Back in Bicheno we headed to the blowhole, which was blowing somewhat which was pretty cool. Managed to mostly reproduce Dad's photos (well except I didn't get quite as far out on one point because it would have meant climbing big rocks).
Crabs near the Bicheno Blowhole
Bicheno Blowhole
This Pacific gull caught a fish
Bicheno Blowhole
Rocks at the Bicheno Blowhole
Sooty oystercatcher
Bicheno Blowhole
Rocks at Bicheno Blowhole
Then had a look at Waubs Bay. It's been developed a lot since 1971. There's even a whisky distillery there now.
View to Governor Island
Young Pacific gull
Wharf at Bicheno
Waubs Harbour Distillery
View to Governor Island
Waubs Beach in Bicheno
Back in town we stopped at Beer and Brew and had some local beers (Bicheno beer!) and had a quite nice "three pigs" pizza.
Back at the resort I walked down to the beach because the sun was so shiny on Diamond Island.
Diamond Island
Possibly an oystercatcher at Bicheno
Shell on the beach
Pied oystercatcher
View towards Bicheno
View to Diamond Island from the resort
Dusk skies over Diamond Island
Then chucked some of the heavier washing in the dryer for a while, while we watched The Orville 3.1. Stu made himself slightly ill by eating an entire tub of ice cream. Whoops!
Collapsed into bed a bit after 21:00.
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