BusTed in Gordon

Hi Everyone,

Just a quickie. This is the Southern most point of all Australian Highways,

 the A6 at Southport.

Just thought it was worth a mention.

We passed through Cygnet, a small town with great artworks.

This horse is made entirely of metal, barbed-wire and wire brushes,

very realistic.

We had an overnight stop at Gordon, camped right on the foreshore. Nice.

That's South Bruny Island across the D'Entrecasteaux Channel, our next destination point.

Bye for now.

Michelle and Ellen.

BusTed in Ida Bay

Hi Everyone,

We left Tahune and headed south towards Ida Bay, pausing for a look at the West Creek Lookout built in the same style at the air walk just smaller.  

The hand rails were being affected by this mould or something and the result as you can see was quite beautiful.

We got the best shot of Theodora on this bend....I love it. 

So to Ida Bay and the infamous Railway.

This train seriously was the cutest thing ever....

The line was built in 1922 to carry limestone from the quarries southeast of Lune River to a wharf at Brick Point on Ida Bay. It travelled through bushland and skirted the edges of the bays.

Meg Thornton fell in love with it and bought the railway in Jan 2005 and has been doing extensive maintenance on it which is why it runs today. She has an uphill battle with political red tape so I hope she can  keep it up, she certainly is doing a magnificent job.

At the far end of the track was Elliot Beach where we stopped for 20 mins to have a look. The water was cold but so clean and beautiful.

It reminded us a lot of home.

Originally the tracks were made of wood and these large curved wheels were used, but wood wasn't tough enough to support the limestone so they were changed.

Catch you next time

Michelle and Ellen

xxxx

BusTed in Tahune "Walking on Air".

Hi, its us again.

This time we visited the Tahune Forest Air walk....just for fun.

Oh yeah, its high up in the trees.

Here is brave little Ellen on her way out over the cantilever.

I was also very brave.

This made for spectacular views.

Awesome.

The water is stained, like tea from a type of button grass.

Still spectacular.

There are also two swinging bridges, one crossing the Huon River.

The other the Picton River.

Walking back from the river walk we could view the air walk from below....what an amazing structure.

We have seen a few of these in our travels.

We took a little detour to see a stand of Huon Pines.

It was a very long day.

Not long enough, we had a bite to eat for tea, a lovely thai green curry, if memory serves me. Some tourists from the Netherlands had told us of their adventure the night before. So then following their advise, it was off back up to the Airwalk for a beautiful sunset...we hoped.

It was sure to be a lovely show.

Time was ticking away and poor little Ellen was a little disappointed.

Then, voila, the sun sank and a beautiful pink hue was seen.

Ahhhhhh...so worth the walk.

Till next time

xxxx

Ellen and Michelle

BusTed in Geeveston

Hi again,

Geeveston didn't know what hit it when we arrived at the tourist info center.  Ellen and I jumped up into the replica of a logging truck took it for a pretend burl around the shop.

 Then Ellen thought she was a sculpture.

In fact that seemed like a good idea ...I became a sculpture too.

This is the most gorgeous town it's situated in the Huon Valley, which is one of the most spectacular valleys and is the only place you can find the now very rare Huon Pine.

We stayed behind the RSL in a lovely and quiet, grassed area bound by a small creek.

There were apparently platypus further up the creek but surprisingly, going on our track record, we didn't see any.

Till we blog again,

bye bye

for now

xxxx

Ellen and Michelle

BusTed in Hobart

Hi everyone, here we are out and about in Hobart.

We dropped into the Tasmanian Museum and Art Gallery in the city.

It was stuffed full of stuff and stuffed animals.

A huge display on Antarctica.

It was really interesting, the staff were so informative and super friendly.

The funniest thing, which we forgot to get a photo of, was a stuffed wombat. It was the first dead wombat ever sent back to England for taxidermy, unfortunately having never seen a live one they really had no idea. They stood it proudly up on its hind haunches, like a kangaroo with it's front claws splayed out in a magnificent display of terror.

 It really looked odd.

We played at the Museum for a couple of hours then headed to the waterfront for some fish and chips. Here we spotted this really cool, massive bronze seahorse sculpture.

The fish and chips we got from a boat moored at the Marina.... nice.

Next day we jumped on the bike again and headed off to the infamous Salamanca Markets.

Lots of Music and colourful stalls and people. 

It was a really good morning. Ellen was very happy because look what we found.

Till next time

xxxx

Ellen and Michelle