Hobart to South Bruny Island, Tasmania

Sat May 4th 2019
Well today was time to move on from our warm little sanctuary at Hobart. Washed and dried we are ready to venture out in to the cold again. I think!

We left Kingston and headed on our way to Kingston. We were 1.3km from the ferry port at Kettering Point when we saw some Targa Tasmania cars again. We hadn’t seen them since we were at Burnie a week ago. We stopped to watch them drive past for a while, they were driving between race legs. David decided he would like to go and watch one of the Race Legs which was back where we had just come from, but only a 30min drive. So off we go to find a good viewing spot, The first one was no good as there was a bend and with the sprinkling of rain they weren’t going fast enough for DB. So on to the next spot where we walked through a farm paddock to reach our viewing spot. The cars were in all different categories and went from slowest group to fastest group, so we had a little while to wait for the fast dudes. Lucky us!! It was quite interesting to watch, there were many different types of cars, old, new, specialty, noisy and fast. We spent the next couple of hours standing in the paddock amongst the cow dung watching fast and not so fast cars drive a stretch of road. Woohoo! It was a bit of varied fun. Nothing like a change to keep the holiday interesting.

So we watched almost till the end and headed on our way to the ferry at about 1.30pm. We almost made the 11am ferry. Hehehe!!

We just missed the 2pm ferry. The sun had come out for a little while but it has been hiding most of the day. We caught the 2.30pm ferry across the North Bruny Island and went for a drive around the North Island before heading down to the south island to camp at Jetty Beach campground in the South Bruny National Park for the night. It was still raining but hopefully the weather forecast will be right tomorrow for our bush walk. Only time will tell. Anyway. Off to bed for me.

: We enjoyed the dry of the villa in Hobart. Even the car got to stay out of the rain.

: Pre race pitstop for a 1968 Triumph TR5 about 1.3km from the ferry.

: They gave him some more fuel..

: ..then tightened the wheel nuts. Then he was on his way again to head for the race start in about 30 minutes.

: It’s race time. A GT Falcon..

: ..not quite sure what this car was. Feedback would be great..

: ..some help on this one as well..

: MG

: Ford Ute

: 2018 Lotus

: 1970 Ford Escort

: 1938 Dodge Speedster

: 1973 Datsun 240Z

: 1981 Porsche SC – There were many many Porsche in the race.

: 2000 Mazda MX5

: 1978Ford Falcon Cobra

: 2015 Corvette – there is some serious money here today.

: 2017 Ford Mustang

: 1974 Porsche 911

: 1969 Holden Monaro

: 1981 VH Commodore

: 1975 Triumph TR7 V8

: 1964 Studebaker

: Back where we started from about 4 hours ago. No-one can say we aren’t flexible with our plans

: As the 2pm ferry leaves the port. We only missed it by a fraction.

: The ferry on its way

: Boarding the barge to Bruny Island at last

: Another day in Tassi, another rainbow. We have seen so many.

: A bit of wind on the way over. Would love to see it in the smooth and sunshine.

: Shelter Bay, Killora, North Bruny Island

: Looking across to Mt Wellington from North Bruny Island

: Bull Bay, North Bruny Island

: The Neck looking towards South Bruny Island. Adventure Bay on the left and Isthmas Bay on the right.

: My first taste of Oysters at Get Shucked Oysters, South Bruny Island

: Paying by credit card at the solar powered EFTPOS machine at Jetty Beach Camp, South Bruny National Park.

: Cooking dinner in the rain. The first outing for my chair, the table and the gazebo. No camp kitchen or shelter to take advantage of. Oh well. There was a reason we packed them.