Firstly, here's a coupler piccies from my fishing trip last week.
The last time I was bloggificating I was sitting behind the staff desk in Port Arthur. Laura, Phil and Rosie's daughter works there as a tour guide, showing groups of tourists around the historic site. The next day I went on a small ferry in Port Arthur, accross to The Isle Of The Dead! Yes, it sounds like something ghastly out of some horror movie but it's basically the old cemetery where the convicts were buried, as well as the other inhabitants. But becuase most of the convicts were illiterate, there were mispellings on many of the epitaphs, like our friend "Benjiman" below!
Laura and I returned from Port Arthur, and on the way back visited the fascinating "Tesselating Pavements". This is a geological formation, formed when salt from the sea water crystallises in the cracks in the rocks and makes them expand. It forms an amazing grid of rocks, piccies below!
The next day, Phil, Rosie and I drove to Bruny Island, which is an island off the South-East coast of Tas. The Island is actually itself made up of two islands, separated by a thin sandy "neck" shown below:
We drove to Advand walked to Fluter Cape, where we found this seal! Rosie nearly tripped over it because it looked just like a boulder! 
We also saw this flame robin, piccie below.
This was Sunday, and between then and now (thursday) I've been working with Phil to clear up his old house to get it ready for selling. It's been hard work, but a good laugh and surprisingly good fun!
We also saw this flame robin, piccie below.This was Sunday, and between then and now (thursday) I've been working with Phil to clear up his old house to get it ready for selling. It's been hard work, but a good laugh and surprisingly good fun!
4 comments:
Guday George. Glad you're seeing some nature down there in Tas. Geology,ornithology, fishology and sealology. Are you making use of the bins that you carried all the way down there? Hope so!Don't forget to study the plants. The botany of the area is hummazing. Biggest trees in the southern hemisphere if I recall correctly.Have you had a leech on your leg yet? There are plenty down by the creek. Also, you need to find a platypus. Don't leave without seeing one. Maybe you should go night-spotting like we did in Africa. By the way do you know that all the wombats have got a terrible cancer of the face that is killing them? Have they found out why yet?? Ask Phil. Climate change is going to be a bummer for Tas I should think. If the winters get a lot colder many of the houses will not be very suitable. I guess the insulation is rather poor.Have you got enough warm clothes? Love Dadxx
Hey dodgy mcslodgy!!! Sounds like you're having a wonderful time as always, making me very jealous! Fishing sounds fun, and can't believe Rosie accidently tripped over a seal, hehe, amazing. Don't work too hard on the house, love you lots x x x
Hi darlin' - it's so lovely reading your bloggin' blog - do keep blogging as it'd a great way to keep in touch. You sound as though you are having a fantastic time and I am so pleased for you. We are just watching the floods on the TV, Cheltenham and Warwick are really badly affected - it's terrible. Do get yourself sorted with a mask etc as that MDF is lethal and can leave you with allergies; even ordinary dust can leave you with prolems. Don't take risks darling as you could end up with problems. I'll let you know the arrangements for your results when I speak with Hills Road tomorrow. Take care and enjoy yourself.
Love you loads - Mummie x
George,
sounds like your having a great time, trust your seeinh all sides of life out there. Make sure you get a photo of platypus and post it.
How is the band going, what you up to next.
make sure you have a few beers.
lots love from the Pollards in Cornwall.
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