Our stay in Hobart February/March 2015
We arrived in Hobart just in time for the wooden boat festival. An amazing gathering of mainly Australian classic wooden boats, both small and large. Warrens son and family who are traveling around Aus for a year or two joined us for a week on board. A couple of days were spent at the boat festival where there were lots of great activities for the kids too. We then set off for Bruney Island, half a days sail from Hobart. We had fairly decent weather but the wind was still chilly. The kids enjoyed kayaking and running around on the beach, fishing off the back of the boat.
Uncle Morg taking his niece Jemima for a kayak
Relaxing on the boom in Bruney
Hundreds of small Flathead were caught and released. I caught a gummy shark which was great eating, thank goodness as corned beef was on the menu that night. Morgan and Jemima (Morgs niece who is 8 months his junior) played happily together for the whole week. The last thing you need on a boat are small kids that really dont like each other. Poor Archie got left out again as Morg and Jemima would Archie proof themselves in the back cabin. We even managed a swim (14 degrees I think).
Back to Hobart and Mike, Pip and kids carried on camping, Warren went home to check on the mine and Morg and I drove up to Ansons Bay (north Tasmania) to experience some real camping complete with swags, spiders and ants that required cremation by blow torch. There’s not much in Aussie that doesn’t either bite, sting or eat you. Morg and I went walking through the bush with Jemima who stomps her wee feet to warn the snakes we’re coming. Ansons Bay was beautiful, a great harbour that we managed to do a boat trip around, after coaxing a huge huntsman out of the outboard throttle. Again we had mainly cold rainy weather. Tasmania was experiencing one of its bad summers, so cold that in February I had to go and buy thermals and a winter jacket. Nice. Explains why most of the local boats had flues sticking out of the deck.
We also did a bit of sight seeing by car, up to ……………….A lot of beautiful old buildings in Tasmania and cute little towns. Great oysters and produce too.