DAY 38
21st January 2021
We were leaving Bruny this morning, driving back to the ferry via the cherry stand where I bought some delicious cherries. Back on the Tassie mainland, we followed the coast around the Garden Island Creek then went up to Cygnet to the IGA to get some supplies.
We followed the coast further around past some lovely still waters, then back to Cygnet and on to Huonville. Franklin was a lovely little town on the water with lots of old buildings.
We kept driving south to “The End of the Road” at Cockle Creek, the furthest south in Australia you can drive. There was a campsite there called Bolton Green and we managed to find a spot - it was pretty busy. But the water was so blue and it was just gorgeous so you could see why everyone was down there.
We put the drone up a bit later on, the water was clear and you could see so much!
We went for a walk in the evening down to the bridge, and found some old graves that were there. The area was the site of an old whaling town so we assume they had died while living here. Then we walked back along the track to the campsite.
DAY 39
22nd January 2021
We left the campsite early, going for a short walk out to the whale sculpture.
We then drove back along the road and passed a very nice bay called “Boy and Dinghy Bay”. The area of Recherche Bay was found by the French who came here to study the plants and wildlife, and who made friends with the locals.
We drove to Geeveston to get fuel, food and water. That was a nice little place. The water wasn’t great, like most water in Tassie.
From there, we went all the way to Mount Field, driving along an unnamed road which, after much digging, I found out was called the Plenty Link Road. We weren’t even sure it was a road at one point, but it was on my Hema map and it went in the right direction without us having to go around the long way.
We arrived at the campsite in Mount Field at about 2:30pm. There were only a couple of marked places left so we took one. They had a good system where you displayed your permit at the entrance to your fenced off site, meaning that you could drive off and leave the site. We didn’t but we left the car there and went to do the three waterfalls walk.
We started off at Russell Falls, a lovely waterfall, then walked up to Horseshoe Falls. There was a sign to say that the other waterfall was closed but we kept going. We ended up doing the Tall Trees walk, and when we got to the road to continue along it, there was a sign and the path was definitely blocked off. The only way to go and see the other waterfall was to walk up the single lane dirt road, which was somewhat busy. It seemed too dangerous so we walked back to the campsite.
We spent a cold night in the campsite hanging out with the friendly pademelons!
