DAY 122 After 3 nights free camping in the River and Rocks Campground, we were moving on today, it seemed again that half of Australia was on the move, 4x4’s Campers, boats, and trailers, and just about every time of fishing rod we had ever seen were leaving the camp site. It had been the same yesterday but by lunchtime we were told that it had filled back up again. Our plan is to be back in Cradle Mountain on Wednesday 11th March for the final 3 days as it was just so beautiful and full of wildlife we just feel that we need to see it again before sailing back to Melbourne on Saturday night arriving Sunday morning. This of course will be to the detriment of other parts of Tasmania, there is so ... read more

DAY 120 Suddenly awake in the dead of the night, it was pitch black but there was no mistaking the sound of the patter of those tiny feet around the campsite and over the roof of the trailer tent, I heard a shuffle by the zipper and I could hear that familiar sound of the zip pulls clinking together. Sitting upright in bed, I grabbed the torch and flicked it around the tent, we were still all clear there were no Possums inside the tent, but I am sure they were trying the zipper. We have been told that some of them find that they can pull the zips open with such ease. After a short while the noise stopped, I turned off the torch and went back to sleep, determined that these critters were not ... read more

DAY 118 The weather was heinous again, and we were getting slightly cheesed off with it, we were joking to each other that back in the 1800’s the convicts were sent to Australia must have thought brilliant, sunshine, but when they found they were off to Tasmania it was a different story. I accept they said that Tasmania was just like England, but I didn’t expect it to be like a bad day in Skegness every day, or a normal day in Scotland (Bill Kelly). Anyway we couldn’t get our lazy arses going this morning, it was too cold and it was raining, when we finally did, we decided we were definitely going to Port Arthur. It was a really pretty drive of about 90 K’s through some lovely forestry and hilly scenery, loads of ... read more

DAY 117 The stormy night did not affect us at all, we heard the rain lashing the tent and the wind blowing the awning for quite a while after we went to bed. We awoke when a gust of wind took the awning that had collected some rain and blew the entire puddle out of it and crashed to the ground below. Awaking now in the serenity of the morning, the sun was shining and we were warm. Getting dressed it was a day for wearing shorts. We had a fairly leisurely morning doing a few chores, as usual a little housekeeping needs to be done, never any escape from that. We even logged onto the Internet using our new dongle caught up on some email and researched a few things. Then we got to it ... read more

DAY 115 We both slept well, but it was time to move again, so again everything had to be packed away. It wasn’t too much of a chore, as we had not put the awning up as originally we were only going to stay one night. I went over to the camp Kitchen only 15 yards away and put the kettle on, “Why use our gas” when there is a perfectly good kitchen fully equipped that I have paid my share to use. We still had ½ a day credit internet time left so I made a cup of tea and did the blog, definitely feeling better, the tablets seem to be working (fingers Crossed). The internet speed was better than last night, so I Skyped my sister Jane. Caroline wanders over, again her lip ... read more