Tuesday, April 13, 2010
The wind and plans
You cannot escape the wind on Flinders Island. Yes, it is windstill and calm sometimes, but it does blow here too, and if you're a short-term visitor that is likely to affect you and your tightly knit plans. Anyway - because of the time we still went up to Killiekrankie today with the McMahon clan. Chris quintupled his lifetime catch of fish and we did a spot of kayaking and some diving and fossicking for Killikrankie diamonds. No, I didn't find any. Sandra managed to catch a big enough fish to snap her rod at the butt end. And then she let it get away! Anyway we got the huge treat of steak-supper at the pub and now I am really, really tired and need to go to bed... Better post tomorrow, I hope.
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Ha! I found Killiecrankie Tasmania, Australia on Google maps. And there's Strzelecki National Park, too. And... so where's the Freer encampment, anyway? Are you on the satellite pictures yet? Take the Palana road long past Blue Rocks, and then...
ReplyDeleteSay hello to the McMahon Clan for me, eh? Haven't seen Chris since Melbourne, with you, Dave. You might remind him that his old college buddy lives just across the water from Flinders...
ReplyDeleteMike - it's almost exactly 2km from Whitemark.
ReplyDeleteThey've just left, Dirk. I hope we'll all see each other in September - that is if I don't go to Tassie and see you before that.
ReplyDeleteBy the Showground and the Tourist Lodge? I see Whitemark, but 2 km gives me a half-circle...
ReplyDeleteI just measured - 1.76km to the door - before Vireaux st, and after Thule - toward the showgrounds
ReplyDeleteHum... http://www.aist-nara.ac.jp/~mbarker/photos/FreerFamilyTreehouse.jpg seems to be as close as I can get with Google maps. Are you in there? Wave!
ReplyDeleteWe are in the white dot a lot closer to the road than the house in the trees. Did you see me wave?
ReplyDeleteAha, that's who planted that garden! The eye in the sky sees all...
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