Awoke to the noise of Sfefano getting up to go to the toilet at some insane hour (6am).
False start.
Two hours later and the sun peeked through the trees enough to begin evaporating the nights condensation. At our breakfast of corn flakes and coffee a middle aged hipee told us that the ferry back to Melbourne was booked out for large vehicles (anything over 2.1m causes issues) from Saturday onwards until mid April. Horror visions of being stuck in Tasmania while the weather went from cold to even colder materialised. Apparently a big caravan convention was finishing somewhere and every man and his dog and his caravan was heading back to the mainland. We were hoping to book for the next day when our fancy took us but obviously this stratergy needed to be revised. On to the net to check availability and we are booked for Thursday. Obviously Spirit of Tasmania know you are up a creek without a paddle as they sting you an extra $60 for the Devonport > melbourne leg. From our caravan park we headed towards Devonport taking as much of a detoured route as possible. We picked up some cheeses at a dairy centre and a bottle of wine and crackers at coles. After reaching devonport we decided to have one more night of bush camping and so drove out to the town of Wilmot which is far enough away to still be in the bush but not too far as to be a long drive. From there we made our way down to Lake Barrington where we made camp, a fire, and then proceeded like vintage old men to savour our cheese, crackers and wine.
A good day.
False start.
Two hours later and the sun peeked through the trees enough to begin evaporating the nights condensation. At our breakfast of corn flakes and coffee a middle aged hipee told us that the ferry back to Melbourne was booked out for large vehicles (anything over 2.1m causes issues) from Saturday onwards until mid April. Horror visions of being stuck in Tasmania while the weather went from cold to even colder materialised. Apparently a big caravan convention was finishing somewhere and every man and his dog and his caravan was heading back to the mainland. We were hoping to book for the next day when our fancy took us but obviously this stratergy needed to be revised. On to the net to check availability and we are booked for Thursday. Obviously Spirit of Tasmania know you are up a creek without a paddle as they sting you an extra $60 for the Devonport > melbourne leg. From our caravan park we headed towards Devonport taking as much of a detoured route as possible. We picked up some cheeses at a dairy centre and a bottle of wine and crackers at coles. After reaching devonport we decided to have one more night of bush camping and so drove out to the town of Wilmot which is far enough away to still be in the bush but not too far as to be a long drive. From there we made our way down to Lake Barrington where we made camp, a fire, and then proceeded like vintage old men to savour our cheese, crackers and wine.
A good day.
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