Showing posts with label East Coast. Show all posts
Showing posts with label East Coast. Show all posts

Wednesday, December 9, 2009

The Whole Set!

We did it!

Finally, after 10 months traveling and more than 40 000kms, we collected our final 'most' point. This time it was the eastern-most....Cape Byron, NSW.

We explored the lighthouse and the cape, posed for photos and then celebrated with a swim at Byron's Main Beach and a hot chips on fresh white bread lunch.

Hmmmmmm! Life continues to be....oh so good!

Cape Byron.....looking from the south.

The lighthouse and Jon...the most awesome driver in Australia in 09.

You did it Honey! Hip Hip!! Now he wants a new challenge....something about getting up to the highest point in Oz seeing as we have already been to the lowest.

That's the most eastern point on Australia's mainland in the background....right between our heads.

Main Beach, Byron Bay....full of schoolies and backpackers.


Tuesday, March 24, 2009

Hobart and up

Our time in Hobart finished with a tour of the Cascade Brewery...the oldest in Australia. Very interesting and yummy! Jon liked the harder stuff, but give me their raspberry cordial any day! We learnt all about hops and malt and making, bottling and packing beer. Headed out of town late in the afternoon and made our way north to Mayfield Bay camping reserve which looks out across Great Oyster Bay to the Freycinet Peninsula. Just a beautiful place....ok...truth be told, there are no ugly places in Tasmania. But this one really is special. Had our first dry night in a while - bonus! Spent the day in and around Coles Bay and Freycinet NP. Found another 4WD track...no winch needed this time. The Hazards are the pink granite mountains on the peninsula and they were looking very fine today...sparkling alongside the crystal clear turquoise water of the bay. Just beautiful! 18 km north we had a flying visit to the Friendly Beaches....again, clear turquoise water but this time, white fine sand. Beautiful! We're camping the night on the coast again....I can hear the gulls and the waves as I type. You know...BEAUTIFUL!