Vacation Part I
The journey begins! We wanted to go camping on or near Tasmania's Freycinet Peninsula. However we were trying to go camping over school summer holidays. Tasmania abounds in camping spots, many of them free, and we set out to camp. We spent almost a whole day driving up and down the East coast of Tassie and we did finally find a spot. One of the first places was Moulting Lagoon.
As we tried to find Moulting Lagoon we came across this beautuiful spot! No camping here :(
After we left this goregeous place we new we were in for abit of a trip. Just down the dirt road to the above viewing area was a little cottage with several people doing a little work outside. I pulled over and asked some of the folk if they knew where the Moulting Lagoon camping area was. They all looked a bit puzzled. This puzzled me, according ot the map we were just a few miles from this area and usually the locals know all about such places. One of them thoguht they may know what I am talking about. He kindly hopped on his dirt bike and drove me down the road a bit and showed me a turn off. We were to keep following the road, with a couple turns, and we would find it easy.
The road was not exactly paved.
After driving a few kilometers over some rough road we came to this sign. I finally understood why the locals were confused when I asked about a camp ground. Moulting Lagoon was listed in our campsite guide as having camping but it was not a camp ground. No worries, we expected go a little bush anyway.
As we continued to drive into the game reserve we could see a gathering of campervans (mobile homes or trailors). We pulled over and went to talk to some of the folks. It was politely made clear to me we were not welcome as this was their family spot. Rather then possibly cause a rucus we kindly left and continued hunting for another spot.
After driving up and down the East coast for a while, checking several spots, we found one at Shelly Point. we were close to the road but it was a nice spot and were only 10 minutes walk from the beach.
We had a gas camp stove, but the bottle ran out one night, so we made our pasta dinner over the fire. We boiled the noodles in the billy (kettle) and heated the sauce over the fire.
The trees were beautiful as was the nights sky. We stayed at Shelly Point about a week before we needed to move on but more of that in part II.
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What an adventure! Glad it was enjoyable for you!! Nice memories.
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