What goes up must come down, what goes left then goes right, what goes up must come down, what goes left then goes right.......keep doing and saying this for about 4 hours and you will have travelled on the same road as we did today, from Cradle Mountain through Queenstown and onto Hobart. It was ANOTHER ONE OF THOSE ROADS. We just could not believe how windy it was. Right left right left right left then we would get a 50meter straight section and another sign saying 5kms windy and we would laugh so hard we almost were crying as we couldn’t work out how it was that the next 5kms were going to be any different from the last 50kms. We were a little over the windy road thing by lunch and were glad to see the back of it only about an hour after. This road makes the putty and bells line of road look like a walk in the park. It is safe to say that our plans for maybe heading back up that way have been changed.
Anywho we pushed on through Hobart and stopped in to refuel both the car and groceries and water before driving down the southernmost road to the southernmost camping point. All day I had been stressing that we would get to this camp grounds and they would be full. I had tried plenty of times to phone and with no luck we thought we would take our chances. In the new book we purchased we noticed there are 2 sections to this area one is National park and the other a conservation area and you can camp in either we were laying our hopes on the fact that in national parks you have to pay fees so that hopefully the conservation area would be full and the national park not so full. As we passed the 4 camping areas in the conservation area we were starting to worry more and more as they were packed out and not with people we really would have felt safe camping next to. We crossed the bridge into the national park and noticed the ranger’s station was open so I headed in to find out if luck was on our side. The couple in front of me were sorting out passes and were talking about the nearest towns so I started to feel even less hopeful and when they had left a very quickly but hopefully asked if there were any spots left and when the wonderful ranger said YES well I couldn’t have been happier. It really was one of the things I wanted to do was to camp here and to find out there was space just made my day.
The ranger helped us find a spot and later on came back to make sure we were all settled in. The mosquitoes are really quite bad but we are camping in the bush again and next to an amazing beach. We are both really tired again it must be something to do with all the fresh air. Tomorrow I think we might do another fantastic walk we will wait and see what the weather does.
Us2martins twisting and turning in Tassie.
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