After an eventful day on Wednesday with someone taking the side out of the Mazda and a funeral on Thursday we finally left Acton by lunchtime on Thursday 3rd May 2019
We made our way leisurely to Launceston, where we caught up with the Tassie Travellers Caravan Club, that were having their monthly muster at Old Macs Farm. What a lovely place to camp, only 10 minutes from the CBD of Launceston, lovely grassy sites and only $10 for the night. Before we left on Friday we walked up to their Cafe Stonesthrow where we enjoyed lovely scones jam and real cream, not that airy fairy fake stuff out of a can.
Friday afternoon we caught up with Dennis and Lyn in Ulverstone before heading over to Devonport to catch the boat. We arrived there at 5.30pm and were directed straight onto the Spirit, no lining up in the cattle grids. We had a relatively smooth sailing only felt a few bumps along the way.
Saturday was an early start with Baz rousing me at 5am, 15 minutes before the official wake up call. Lucky for us we had no one holding us up when disembarking there is always someone that will hold up the vehicles, either by not making note of what deck they left their vehicle and have trouble finding it, or by sleeping in. We got away nicely and had crossed over the Westgate Bridge by 6.10am and were making our way to Lake Lonsdale near Stawell, where we planned to spend the night.
After a coffee and toasted sandwich at Stawell we made our way out to the lake and set up camp. We sat outside for a while but found it was a bit chilly so headed inside for and afternoon siesta, had thought we may have gone to Halls Gap in the afternoon but upon waking decided to leave it to the next day.
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| Old Macs Farm |
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| view from cafe |
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| Stonesthrow Cafe Old Macs Farm |
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| Lake area Old Macs Farm |
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| Campsite at Lake Lonsdale |
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| Looking at Lake Lonsdale |
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Water level is very low the floating pontoon
is certainly high and dry |
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