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An Australian lap attempt.....anti clockwise
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What a difference a day makes!!
Blue skies and sunshine today following yesterday’s rain, cloud and cold.
The plan was to ride up to Dove Lake near cradle mountain but we soon came up against the reason we didn’t go.
The only way up there was in a shuttle bus. It took us about 0.3 of a second to agree that the bus wasn’t for us.
We had passed a Tasmanian Devil sanctuary and decided to go and have a look. Seeing one in the wild is nigh on impossible by all accounts, unless dead ones on the road count as a sighting.
These creatures are under threat from a face tumour disease, loss of habitat and getting squashed by vehicles.
Anyway, $20 each seemed like a very fair price to see some Devils and maybe help one or two have a chance of survival. Although seeing them in captivity was a bit sad too. I’m not really a zoo person but....it’s a difficult one. This wasn’t trying to be a zoo. They had Quolls as well. Another marsupial the looked like a weasel type thing.
The roads and scenery today are the reason I ride a bike. It was super. It couldn’t have been better. We only rode for about 110miles but Wow!
What a day to ride a bike, what a place to ride a bike in a day like today.
Tonight we are camping in Stanley. At the bottom of a big rock known as The Nut. You can walk to the top by the way of a path or there’s a ski lift affair. Sitting here looking up I think that we’ll walk. When we actually go up there the idea may change. We’ve booked in here for three nights. The weather forecast is looking good.
So, Tasmania is certainly a favourite on this trip.
Two happy people, two happy bikes.
Oh, one more thing. On arriving here we saw a Fiat Ducato motorhome, nothing particularly unusual in that.....Sarah commented that one of those would do us.
I commented that it looked like the one we’d seen at a place called Banka Banka on the way north to Darwin around the end of August. Well it is!!! Most Australians are all to happy to tell you how big their country is....I beg to differ.
Blue skies and sunshine today following yesterday’s rain, cloud and cold.
The plan was to ride up to Dove Lake near cradle mountain but we soon came up against the reason we didn’t go.
The only way up there was in a shuttle bus. It took us about 0.3 of a second to agree that the bus wasn’t for us.
We had passed a Tasmanian Devil sanctuary and decided to go and have a look. Seeing one in the wild is nigh on impossible by all accounts, unless dead ones on the road count as a sighting.
These creatures are under threat from a face tumour disease, loss of habitat and getting squashed by vehicles.
Anyway, $20 each seemed like a very fair price to see some Devils and maybe help one or two have a chance of survival. Although seeing them in captivity was a bit sad too. I’m not really a zoo person but....it’s a difficult one. This wasn’t trying to be a zoo. They had Quolls as well. Another marsupial the looked like a weasel type thing.
The roads and scenery today are the reason I ride a bike. It was super. It couldn’t have been better. We only rode for about 110miles but Wow!
What a day to ride a bike, what a place to ride a bike in a day like today.
Tonight we are camping in Stanley. At the bottom of a big rock known as The Nut. You can walk to the top by the way of a path or there’s a ski lift affair. Sitting here looking up I think that we’ll walk. When we actually go up there the idea may change. We’ve booked in here for three nights. The weather forecast is looking good.
So, Tasmania is certainly a favourite on this trip.
Two happy people, two happy bikes.
Oh, one more thing. On arriving here we saw a Fiat Ducato motorhome, nothing particularly unusual in that.....Sarah commented that one of those would do us.
I commented that it looked like the one we’d seen at a place called Banka Banka on the way north to Darwin around the end of August. Well it is!!! Most Australians are all to happy to tell you how big their country is....I beg to differ.
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Tasmanian Devils. The one laying flat is a retiree. Living out it’s days away from the younger, more energetic fellows.
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A Quoll in the sun, one with its breakfast and a distant shot of Cradle Mountain.
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What appeared to be a young Blackbird. Hopefully there aren’t any cats around as it didn’t seem to have grasped the idea of danger yet. Mind you, the adults are obviously used to people.
The beach, just outside the campsite ..... living the dream.
The beach, just outside the campsite ..... living the dream.
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After a good night sleep the plan was to go off for a ride to the west coast. Breakfast with a few cups of tea followed by showertime and then some more tea saw the morning slip away. We had another cup of tea and then decided that we could ride the planned route tomorrow.
Instead we had a walk around the town and a spot of lunch I one of the cafes.
We then looked up at the rock known as The Nut. The path up was signposted as 450meters. How hard can it be? It did say steep path too. It was certainly a long 450 meters but we made it.
It was certainly worth it, the views from the top were fantastic and the strong sea breeze was very refreshing.
We also decided to walk the loop track around The Nut of 2km.
To get down again we could have walked or get the chair lift. As I’d never experienced a chair lift before the fee was paid and down we went.
My knees were thankfully not to walk the steep descent I reckon, downhill is always harder on the knees than up for me.
We bought some new stickers for our bikes and a packet of Penguin Poo to make the minimum $10 card purchase limit.
The Penguin Poo turned out to be chocolate covered raisins, usually a form favourite but the plastic bag in the box had split so they were far from their best. We still ate them though.
Two happy people, two happy bikes.
Instead we had a walk around the town and a spot of lunch I one of the cafes.
We then looked up at the rock known as The Nut. The path up was signposted as 450meters. How hard can it be? It did say steep path too. It was certainly a long 450 meters but we made it.
It was certainly worth it, the views from the top were fantastic and the strong sea breeze was very refreshing.
We also decided to walk the loop track around The Nut of 2km.
To get down again we could have walked or get the chair lift. As I’d never experienced a chair lift before the fee was paid and down we went.
My knees were thankfully not to walk the steep descent I reckon, downhill is always harder on the knees than up for me.
We bought some new stickers for our bikes and a packet of Penguin Poo to make the minimum $10 card purchase limit.
The Penguin Poo turned out to be chocolate covered raisins, usually a form favourite but the plastic bag in the box had split so they were far from their best. We still ate them though.
Two happy people, two happy bikes.
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