East Coast of Tasmania -Start: Bridport
BBQ Hut at Ralphs Falls
So it is the school holidays and business is a bit quiet so take the opportunity to get away for a while with the teenagers....that's a great idea isn't it?
Loaded up, Travelways, UBD maps, thermos, cameras, hair straightener!, MP3, Ipod, mobile phones x3, assorted coats, hats, scarves, boots, off we go Mum and two teenagers! Let's not make any definite plans let's just go where we like ...no timetable.... stay where every we like... but we have only got five days!
Daughter: I would like to do a ghost tour at Port Arthur... are you sure about that.....Oh yes!
Son: Not particularly interested in seeing or doing anything but getting to a town that has a music store to purchase some new drum sticks!
Well that's an easy demand list isn't it...that means I get to choose all the things in between!
First stop Legerwood tree carvings, must take some new pictures of those. The stories are interesting too. After the first world war, an avenue of trees was planted in remembrance of those from the town who had died in battles. The trees bacame very old and dangerous so had to be cut down OH BUT what about the avenue of remmebrance? Well there is a very talented chainsaw carving guy lets get him in to carve the trees into the people we are to remember. Great idea so, Eddie Freeman was commissioned to complete the task and what a fantastic job he has done.
Loaded up, Travelways, UBD maps, thermos, cameras, hair straightener!, MP3, Ipod, mobile phones x3, assorted coats, hats, scarves, boots, off we go Mum and two teenagers! Let's not make any definite plans let's just go where we like ...no timetable.... stay where every we like... but we have only got five days!
Daughter: I would like to do a ghost tour at Port Arthur... are you sure about that.....Oh yes!
Son: Not particularly interested in seeing or doing anything but getting to a town that has a music store to purchase some new drum sticks!
Well that's an easy demand list isn't it...that means I get to choose all the things in between!
First stop Legerwood tree carvings, must take some new pictures of those. The stories are interesting too. After the first world war, an avenue of trees was planted in remembrance of those from the town who had died in battles. The trees bacame very old and dangerous so had to be cut down OH BUT what about the avenue of remmebrance? Well there is a very talented chainsaw carving guy lets get him in to carve the trees into the people we are to remember. Great idea so, Eddie Freeman was commissioned to complete the task and what a fantastic job he has done.
Wouldyou like to see more pictures?
BBQ Hut at Ralphs FallsNext stop Ralph's Falls also in the North East of Tas. so off we go through Ringarooma and onto the falls, up the winding road that has a dry stone wall completed in the 1940's after the next world war. This area also has several old gold and tin prospecting minning sites some of which can still be seen today. So off you go kids take the forest walk to the Falls it's only 10 minutes while I have my cup of tea and lunch, (they ate theirs in the car). It is a lovely picnic spot in the forest complete with a BBQ hut with electric BBQs, composting toilet and the falls are the longest drop in Tasmania over 100m, I've walked there several times before and the young people are old enough now to take themselves! Oh they didn't take a camera! not to worry they have mobile phones which do everything except cook the dinner!!!
Well they survived the walk I had my revival quiet cup of tea and enjoyed the stillness and birds of the bush, so off we go down the rough road to ...........
To be continued.......
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