Australia 2020 - Day 9 - Hobart-Strahan.
Friday.
The weather forecast for Strahan today wasn't good, prolonged rain showers with a strong wind warning, 14 degrees C but feels like 10! I thought we were coming to Oz for a southern hemisphere summer!!!! I needed some retail therapy for some warm clothes so I headed to trendy Salamanca Place and bought a couple of hoodies while Col went to collect the hire car before we checked out of the hotel.
Unfortunately the hire car had a very rattly dashboard which had driven us both completely mad within half an hour, after unsuccessfully trying to fix it we tried phoning the depot to see if there was an alternative car available but kept getting the airport branch. We decided as we have this car for over a week it was worth a try returning to the city and asking for an alternative, this was a result and we have been upgraded to an SUV.
Soon we were back on the road and the 300 km drive to Strahan almost entirely on twisting single track roads although there was hardly any traffic.
The countryside was hilly there some evidence of farming with cattle and sheep but very few settlements. Queenstown was a gold mining town but actually mined more copper, it looked rather forlorn and ravaged in the 21st century.
Strahan is a small town on the west coast of Tasmania and boasts a harbour twice the size of Sydney but without the famous landmarks, in fact there are only 900 residents (and a few tourists). We are staying in Franklin Manor - formerly known as Moana (meaning "Ocean" in Maui) , a house that was built by a wealthy business man in the 1890's - it looks like it could be haunted.
After a refreshing cup of tea we went for a pre-dinner stroll to Hogarth Falls and then along the foreshore for an excellent dinner at Bushman's.
12,000 steps 5 miles
The weather forecast for Strahan today wasn't good, prolonged rain showers with a strong wind warning, 14 degrees C but feels like 10! I thought we were coming to Oz for a southern hemisphere summer!!!! I needed some retail therapy for some warm clothes so I headed to trendy Salamanca Place and bought a couple of hoodies while Col went to collect the hire car before we checked out of the hotel.
Unfortunately the hire car had a very rattly dashboard which had driven us both completely mad within half an hour, after unsuccessfully trying to fix it we tried phoning the depot to see if there was an alternative car available but kept getting the airport branch. We decided as we have this car for over a week it was worth a try returning to the city and asking for an alternative, this was a result and we have been upgraded to an SUV.
Soon we were back on the road and the 300 km drive to Strahan almost entirely on twisting single track roads although there was hardly any traffic.
The countryside was hilly there some evidence of farming with cattle and sheep but very few settlements. Queenstown was a gold mining town but actually mined more copper, it looked rather forlorn and ravaged in the 21st century.
Strahan is a small town on the west coast of Tasmania and boasts a harbour twice the size of Sydney but without the famous landmarks, in fact there are only 900 residents (and a few tourists). We are staying in Franklin Manor - formerly known as Moana (meaning "Ocean" in Maui) , a house that was built by a wealthy business man in the 1890's - it looks like it could be haunted.
After a refreshing cup of tea we went for a pre-dinner stroll to Hogarth Falls and then along the foreshore for an excellent dinner at Bushman's.
12,000 steps 5 miles
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