Tassie Trip January 2018: Cygnet & Deep Bay

Cygnet, Deep Bay and surrounds

We spent a fair bit of time while we were in Tassie just spending quality time with Jan, Nick and Jess and getting to meet their friends and get involved in their normal life.
Jan enjoys going rowing twice a week with a lovely group of ladies, who are a great social network and support to each other. Even when Jan is unable to row ( due to her heart issues) she still goes along to cox or just spend time socialising at the Sailing club, where they also have dinner and take their turn to work the bar.

Nick enjoys his model boat racing and also socialises at the sailing club, cooking Bar B Qs etc. There was a sailing boat race going on one evening while we were there, so we watched that before having dinner and drinks.

We went in to Cygnet several times this visit. We went to the Sunday Markets and had a good look at all the local crafts and sampled some delicious pies. Scallop pies are a local delicacy and they are indeed yummy!

 

 

On morning after rowing we went to visit a friend of Jan's who has a lovely property at Deep Bay with beautiful gardens and vegie beds. She gave us blue tea "Clitorius Teratea" which was very nice if strangely coloured.

Tassie Trip January 2018: Tahune Air walk & Hartz Mountains

Tahune Air Walk & Hartz Mountains

It was lovely that Jess was able to join us for another weekend of fun. She drove down from Hobart again on Saturday morning and we left early for the Tahune Air Walk. To get there we had to drive through Huonville and Geeveston and of course had to stop off along the way to replenish our stocks of beautiful juicy cherries.

We arrived early and sat on the deck with coffees to plan our walk. It was gorgeous looking out over the beautiful Huon River. There were a couple of different tracks to take, and since none of them were particularly long we did them all!

The views from up in the tree tops were spectacular. At one point we walked out on the platform suspended out over the river. It was pretty bouncy! The bridges across the river were also suspension walking bridges and the small children we saw crossing had fun jumping up and down to make the bridge wobble. We had our packed lunch on the deck overlooking the river before heading further up the Hartz Mountain to some more walking tracks.

We did a short walk to a lookout and then Jan and Barb rested at the chalet rest area while the others went off for a longer hike. Everyone was pretty tired by now and it was quite a long drive on dirt track to regain the road back to Geeveston.