Easter Sunday 21st April 2019
Well, happy Easter everyone. Missing you all today.

Just a little note on last night’s accommodation. It was a really weird setup on the main road in Newport. The building used to be an old Men’s Hotel in the day. The building was a square surrounding a grass quadrangle with outdoor setting. We stayed in a small room with a shared bathroom and it had a couple of kitchens. We were right next to the shared bathroom so made for a bit of a disturbed night. But for me, what’s new!

We headed to Port Melbourne at about 7.30am where we had out breakfast overlooking the Port Harbour, then boarded the boat about 8am. We only lost a couple of gas bottles in our cookers. We had left fruit and an avocado at the accommodation as we are starting t become old hands at this quarantine business.

We set sail for Tasmania at about 8.50am and it was quite smooth sailing. As we left the protected waters of the bay about 2 hours later, there was a little swell but nothing to get excited about, luckily as DB forgot his ginger and he usually has it to safeguard against seasickness. We have had a quiet, uneventful day, except for our arguing, cranky neighbours on the chairs next to us for the 1st hour. I have quite enjoyed reading my book, doing a little Tasmania reading and just relaxing. After the long day driving yesterday it is a welcome rest before we embark on our ‘bullet-a-gate’ holiday lifestyle as usual.

It is 5.55pm and we have about 30mins before we disembark the boat. Tonight we are heading to Mersey Bluff Caravan Park which is about a 10minute drive from the wharf. The only booked accommodation for the time being. I think we are headed North West tomorrow but only time will tell as we the day unfolds and TOUR DIRECTOR BROADBENT gets us on our way.

Hope you enjoy the blog. I will keep it up to date as time permits. Apologies if I get delayed a day or two with our hectic schedule. But I will do my best.

Hugs to you all.
Fiona and David