Soo Lee - Description: A KL friend that would like to experience Tassieland in a RV and would like to see changing autumn colours and enjoy gourmet gastronomical experiences along the way!!!
Tick tick tick tick ticked!!! Almost all items on her wish-list was covered except for Bruny Island. They ran out of time towards the end and steam may I add, as MB has been doing a lot of RV and 4WD driving even prior to SL arriving in Hobart as I was there 12 days earlier and SL stayed back another week on her own without me!!! Kudos to MB for his efforts for waking up early each day and get us on the road to cover as much as we possibly could in the short time frame. Waste no time, we raced to the Signal Station after we picked SL up from the airport and she dug into her first gourmet aussie meal. Dinner on her first night we had "Lo Sang" as the highlight welcome dish, but this time we were tossing for her future to be filled with success and good health. Mains was alaBoofers Hapuka and we finished off with an apricot cheesecake. BTW - SL also quit her job prior to coming over to Tassieland. Guess it must be catchy or is it, birds of a feather flock together?!?
We started the RV tour on the "Rivers Run" route covering places like Tarwlyn Park, Salmon Ponds and finally after winding up and down narrow dirt roads, it took us into Mt Field for our Fagus hunt. Luckily for us, Fagus were easily spotted and at some locations it was like a jungle of gold. It's all about timing as Fagus is the only Tasmanian deciduous plant in the whole wide world and can only be found around Mt Field or Cradle Mountain and we managed to catch it at its best as it changes from green, to yellow, orange gold, and then even to red!!! First mission accomplished!!!
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| Fagus |
Next morning, we woke up to a yummilicious breakfast at Raspberry Christmas Hills. We popped into places like Ashgrove's Cheese and in hindsight should have bought a couple more cartons of their full cream milk!!! So delicious it reminded me of my days in the UK when milk was delivered to the front door in a glass bottle and milk never tasted soooooo good!!! SL likes the quaint small towns so we spent some time around Sheffield famous for its murals, Evandale for the Georgian village and Franklin House and that night we slept under the stars and to the sounds of the waves pounding by the RV in Stanley by The Nut. We even managed to spot a few fairy penguins calling out to us to come find them in the dark in the midst of watching MKR finals!!! |
| Us happy at Cradle Mountain |
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| Spot SL in the harvester! |
After Cradle Mountain, we headed towards Stanley but somewhere near Wynyard or Table Cape, we had the ride of our lives today inside a working potato truck zig zagging across the fields harvesting spuds. I was riding with Craig the driver and SL was in the harvester. I missed out on it last year, but no way was I going past it this time round. We scored a big bag of the yummiest Innovators (fresh, powdery and just the perfect textured potato) an experience not many tourists can claim they joined this tour! The ride itself was priceless. My price was the lost of my left fitflop, but it was well worth the ride. I would gladly lose the right side for another bag of Innovators!!!
So much happening throughout the day and by nightfall, we just about have enough energy after dinner to squeeze in a game of frustration and nibble off the cheeseboard before we hit the sack!!!
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| SL in her RV sleeping quarters |
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| Enjoying a sunrise alaSim chia pudding |
No better place to catch a sun rise and today we woke up to the sky painting us beautiful pictures witnessed only by the 2 of us and another keen photographer or as MB would call us "crazy people" at Cosy Corner in St Helens, Bay of Fires.
Whilst MB was still in lalaland, SL and I had the best time mucking around the boulders, playing with starfishes, a pretty anemone and we ate our chia pudding on the beach waiting patiently for Mr Sun. The simple pleasures of life are not only free and not forgetting the freshest air for two jobless people!!! Yesssss we are doing it tough - sitting around a camp fire tucking into St Helens Pacific oysters, nibbling on cheese and sipping red wine!! Another day in paradise!!! Are we forgetting MB, he is also jobless but I guess he falls into the retired category!!!
Before I broke off from this leg of the "3 Black Swans" trip, we proceeded to Launceston, Freycinet Coast and SL managed to hike half way up to Wineglass Bay lookout. We lost a rear left mud flap at Honeymoon Bay and stopped by Bicheno for the must do scallop pie and built our fire at Mayfield. There is so much more to blog on this particular trip and not every event might be in chronical sequence, but we packed in each day best we could and it would take forever and perhaps one day I will blog episode "2" in full detail.
I am sure SL had an amazing time as she had the best tour guide/chef/host all rolled into one in MB. Remember him, MB is that "stranger" that I went RVing with to the OZ outback for 3 months.
Since then, we are still RVing it together, but now there are new "members" and word is spreading amongst my circle of friends that RVing is great fun to do long roadtrips, so I would advise anyone interested to try RVing with MB to take a number and book MB well in advance. Simply hop aboard the RV wagon for some fun fun fun on the road!!!
RV RIDING RULES
** No Extra Charge
- ** Split Expenses
** Must beat MB at Frustration
- ** Bring Your Fun, Free and Adventurous Spirit
- ** Enjoy To The Max
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