Bluff is a small place famed for it's oysters - there is even a song about oysters from Bluff. Unfortunately the oysters are wild not farmed & the season was closed so we never got to taste a Bluff oyster. We did walk into town, do our washing at a backpacker hostel, top up our diesel tank with 10 litre jerrycans of fuel, eat a few vennison pies, and walk to the top of Bluff peak.  The devonshire tea we were drooling for on the way down from the Bluff was not to be as the 2 food places at Sti...
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We cleared Customs mid afternoon on 19th January 2011, 11 months after leaving Adelaide - not a lot of miles under our belt for 11 months but we did enjoy Tassie. Caught up with old friend Don McIntyre who called by after we had cleared & about to depart. The wind was blowing up the Derwent River so it gave us an increasingly stronger wind on the nose, and having to clear Tasman Island & the East coast of Bruny Island, it would have been an exhausting bash to windward to reach clear ocean. It...

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Life carried on in Hobart & we eventually got our new toilet holding tank from the plastics man at a very reasonable price. Had a battle with Telstra to have the phone we bought from them "unlocked" from their service as we thought that we had bought the phone outright & did not see that we should pay a hidden $100 unlocking fee to use the phone with other simcards as we travelled - success after hours of phone calls & threatening behaviour at the Telstra Shop!

With the Sydney Hobart Race comm...

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