End Of March to the beginning of April....
Once again I am late by ALOT to get this blog updated and what not but here we go to play catch up.....
Tasmania.
It’s a wonderful place. It’s like home, beautiful, rugged and COLD! Everyone had to buy a set of thermal underwear and double up on the sleeping bags. I never thought that I would need all my winter gear from home, but it sure would’ve been nice!!
Basically I was in tasmania for 2 weeks. Jordo had left earlier and so I would meet him. He took the ferry which is 11 hours and cost 101 dollars. I was told that a flight would cost only 36..... so naturally I figured that the flight is a better option, considering it was also 10 hours shorter of a trip. Whoever said 36 was wrong! So the booking of my flight ended up being 95 and would leave on Sunday. Fair enough, at least It’s not 11 hours and was still 6 bucks cheaper right? Wrong. This is how it went down...... I figured because I was so far from the airport that I would just start walking saturday night and get there for the sunday morning flight, no problem. But the German girls I was camping with wanted me to fix their van on Saturday and said that they would drive me on sunday morning.... Okay not too bad of a deal, only saved me 30-40 Kms of walking! So I did that and on sunday morning we left at around 6 for my 8:30 flight. About 20 minutes down the road and the van dies. I have no idea what is wrong and have no tools with me. So I grab my pack and start running back to the nearest train station about 1 km away. I get there and buy the “all day-full fare” which cost me 10 bucks, and then I realize there are no trains and check the schedule to find there aren’t any coming soon enough! So I called the public transport hotline and ask them what to do. He told me to get to downtown Melbourne (the CBD as they call it) in 20 minutes to catch the sky bus to the airport. But there is no way to get to the CBD on time by any public transport. So I took a Cab. That only cost 34 bucks!! Then I got on the sky bus just as it was leaving and that cost another 15 dollars!!! But I made it to the airport on time only to find out there was a time change and I am an hour early! Good to know!
So all in up it cost me 160 bucks but it was a lot of fun..... and stress, but kinda fun still.
On to tassie, well it was awesome because we were able to campfires, and that alone made it worth the trip. We tried flyfishing but were never in the right spots. Jordo caught one brown trout the whole time (It was his first on a Fly, so props to him!) and I caught nothing. Our two fishing licenses cost us each 47, so that was one expensive fish!! And we ended up giving it away.... oh well.
We had to pick up Linds from the airport so the first few days we just hung around Hobart, and then when Linds got here we did Wineglass bay which was pretty fantastic! Met some Canadians (they had the same tent as mine from MEC so that how I figured they were Canadians.... It was awesome!) Picked up a German Hitchhiker named Fabian and he camped with us for a couple of nights. Then went up to Launceston and went to church. Went to the Cradle Mountain National park for two nights. The first day we hiked into the Lake Rodway Cabin and then second day hiked around Cradle Mountain itself and Jordan and I summitted it. It was the most challenging climb I have ever done, and when we got to the top it was sooooo foggy that we could only see about 20 yards or so. We went back to the Rodway Cabin that night and hiked out the next day. It was really great out there but cold and wet the whole time except on our hike out. Of Course!
One amazing thing about staying in the cabin at Lake Rodway was that we met John, a guy who works at the Opera House in Sydney. But more about that on my next blog!!
Came back to Melbourne for a few days. Tried to make it to the Bells Beach surf Competition to see the renowned Kelly Slater. But the waves weren’t big enough for the pros so Jordo and I bought some surf boards and hit the waves ourselves. It is fun, plain ol’ good ol’ fashioned fun!! Then we made it back to Melbourne to meet the Ratten’s for supper and the Aussie classics “The Dish” and “The Castle” both very “Aussie” movies. Then went to church for Easter and then back to the Ratten’s and had a wonderful time with their wonderful family! They fed us numerous times and entertained us as well!! I highly recommend a visit to Dingley if ever in Melbourne, because the Rattens make it well worth it!
Now it is up the EAST COAST!!
Tasmania.
It’s a wonderful place. It’s like home, beautiful, rugged and COLD! Everyone had to buy a set of thermal underwear and double up on the sleeping bags. I never thought that I would need all my winter gear from home, but it sure would’ve been nice!!
Basically I was in tasmania for 2 weeks. Jordo had left earlier and so I would meet him. He took the ferry which is 11 hours and cost 101 dollars. I was told that a flight would cost only 36..... so naturally I figured that the flight is a better option, considering it was also 10 hours shorter of a trip. Whoever said 36 was wrong! So the booking of my flight ended up being 95 and would leave on Sunday. Fair enough, at least It’s not 11 hours and was still 6 bucks cheaper right? Wrong. This is how it went down...... I figured because I was so far from the airport that I would just start walking saturday night and get there for the sunday morning flight, no problem. But the German girls I was camping with wanted me to fix their van on Saturday and said that they would drive me on sunday morning.... Okay not too bad of a deal, only saved me 30-40 Kms of walking! So I did that and on sunday morning we left at around 6 for my 8:30 flight. About 20 minutes down the road and the van dies. I have no idea what is wrong and have no tools with me. So I grab my pack and start running back to the nearest train station about 1 km away. I get there and buy the “all day-full fare” which cost me 10 bucks, and then I realize there are no trains and check the schedule to find there aren’t any coming soon enough! So I called the public transport hotline and ask them what to do. He told me to get to downtown Melbourne (the CBD as they call it) in 20 minutes to catch the sky bus to the airport. But there is no way to get to the CBD on time by any public transport. So I took a Cab. That only cost 34 bucks!! Then I got on the sky bus just as it was leaving and that cost another 15 dollars!!! But I made it to the airport on time only to find out there was a time change and I am an hour early! Good to know!
So all in up it cost me 160 bucks but it was a lot of fun..... and stress, but kinda fun still.
On to tassie, well it was awesome because we were able to campfires, and that alone made it worth the trip. We tried flyfishing but were never in the right spots. Jordo caught one brown trout the whole time (It was his first on a Fly, so props to him!) and I caught nothing. Our two fishing licenses cost us each 47, so that was one expensive fish!! And we ended up giving it away.... oh well.
We had to pick up Linds from the airport so the first few days we just hung around Hobart, and then when Linds got here we did Wineglass bay which was pretty fantastic! Met some Canadians (they had the same tent as mine from MEC so that how I figured they were Canadians.... It was awesome!) Picked up a German Hitchhiker named Fabian and he camped with us for a couple of nights. Then went up to Launceston and went to church. Went to the Cradle Mountain National park for two nights. The first day we hiked into the Lake Rodway Cabin and then second day hiked around Cradle Mountain itself and Jordan and I summitted it. It was the most challenging climb I have ever done, and when we got to the top it was sooooo foggy that we could only see about 20 yards or so. We went back to the Rodway Cabin that night and hiked out the next day. It was really great out there but cold and wet the whole time except on our hike out. Of Course!
One amazing thing about staying in the cabin at Lake Rodway was that we met John, a guy who works at the Opera House in Sydney. But more about that on my next blog!!
Came back to Melbourne for a few days. Tried to make it to the Bells Beach surf Competition to see the renowned Kelly Slater. But the waves weren’t big enough for the pros so Jordo and I bought some surf boards and hit the waves ourselves. It is fun, plain ol’ good ol’ fashioned fun!! Then we made it back to Melbourne to meet the Ratten’s for supper and the Aussie classics “The Dish” and “The Castle” both very “Aussie” movies. Then went to church for Easter and then back to the Ratten’s and had a wonderful time with their wonderful family! They fed us numerous times and entertained us as well!! I highly recommend a visit to Dingley if ever in Melbourne, because the Rattens make it well worth it!
Now it is up the EAST COAST!!
posted by Josh at 8:12 AM
0 Comments:
Post a Comment
<< Home