Day 9

Had a good nights sleep that wasn't too cold, woke up to the mist
rising off the bay. First stop was kmart to buy a big plastic tub for
stefano as his massive bag was taking up too much room. After that we
went to the info centre for advice on which direction to go round
tassie, it turns out to be pretty much the same, who would have
guessed. So we decided on an anticlockwise direction. Drove out from
devonport towards Burnie but got sidetracked pretty much immediately
by the first lookout and so we ended up taking a southerlyish route. I
expected really rugged terrain with big forests but the area south of
Devonport was covered in a patchwork of vegetables farms and ploughed
red earth.
We spent the day driving within a 60km diameter around one area, up
and down really steep, winding roads. After a while the farming ended
and we entered deep bush mixed with timber plantations. Stopped for
lunch near a lake but were immediately assaulted by bees, hundreds of
them after our sugar laced lunch. Packed up and drove another km down
the lake to a more protected spot away fro
The water and everything was ok.
I'm not sure of the route we took after lunch but it was all over the
place, we did see a wombat and a tasmanian devil though! In the
evening we aimed for a camping spot indicated on our map (cradle
Mountain?? I'l check in the morning) but bookings were 'essential' and
at 30$ a night, robbery. Instead we drove north for a while and found
somewhere off the main road down a logging trail. An old lady was
already parked 10m down the track in her Getz but it was dark already
so we just drove behind some trees and set up. Mosquitoes a plenty but
kangaroo and rice for dinner was nice. As I lie here I'm hoping it
won't be too cold as we are still a fair way above sea level and
things are getting a bit chilly already.