West coast of Tassie and camping

 

I decided that this time I might try to come to Tassie while it's a little warmer instead of winter months.  I always love to get out with the boys while I'm down and try and get some Crays and fish, so Eden picked me straight up from the airport and after a brief stop at his house for some camping gear, we went to Levi's to pick up the boat and him.  Uncle Kim and Auntie Deidre decided they were coming as well, so after some umming and ahhing, we decided to leave the bigger boat at home and to take the little Tinny instead.

Sheffield, the town of Murals

 

We arrived just after 8pm and had just enough light to set up our tents and get some firewood.  Eden and I shared a tent, it had been years since I'd camped, so we had a restless night, Levi had his own tent and Uncle Kim and Auntie Deidre roughed it and slept in the 4wd.

  

  

Gotta love having a fire when your camping, now who forgot the marshmellows?!!

We awoke to an overcast morning, it had rained alot of the night and was still raining on and off during the morning, bacon sandwiches got most of us going though.

The view from one side of our camp, notice the toilet setup at the bottom of the photo, wonder who would come up with a set up like that.

 

You can take the boy out of the country, but not the country out of the boy, we had a couple of 4wheelers along for the ride on trailers, so I got to test Eden's out for alot of the time, notice the bumber is still on the front!!

  

Yep Levi, it's definitely a 4wd and what a powerpack she is, Levi just started cracking up once, we were driving along a rutted track and I was fooling around taking pics and not paying attention to the road and all of a sudden my head is hitting the roof, then im down and then back up at the roof again, needless to say I was nearly sitting with Levi by the end of it.

Our resident carers were always just behind us making sure we didn't get lost or that our equipment didn't malfunction, us boys were laughing how we had all the poor equipment compared to them, but you have to start somewhere right!!

If you cant get close to the water, take the boat over the rocks, lucky the tinny was very small, and after all the effort, we didn't end up using it, but it did house the Crays Eden and Levi caught.

  

The boys bringing in the catch, was quite a shallow bay and lots of Crays.  I decided I wanted to see what they were seeing, so left my shorts on and jumped in the little bay Eden was in, he was suprised to see me as the water was quite cold, after trying on his mask, I put my head under the water and it filled up with water, that was the end of that bright idea.

 

This one was fighting to the end.

 

We decided we'd even cross this ricketty old bridge to see how far we could go, we were looking for a river.  Carefully now people, it might collapse.

 

 ahh, we found it, lets celebrate by doing some donuts!!!

 

  

The day ended up coming out gorgeous, there were miles of beaches and sand dunes to try out

  

  

  

Go hard or go home, thats the saying.

 

 Towards the end of the day, Eden's bike had nearly lost the battle, I'd had lost the front bumper, which was holding on by one bolt after shearing off the others, so we took it off and it ended up nearly killing the motor, with lots of smoke pouring out, hope the warranty will cover it.