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Travelling
Australia with Wayne & Pam BENTLEY |
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THE
DAILY JOURNAL Thursday 1st April 2004 to Saturday 3rd April 2004 |
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Not a lot to report on today as we packed up at Ross and headed south through Tunbridge, St Peters Pass, Oatlands, Colebrook (formerly known as Jeruselum), Campiania and then set up the caravan in the Richmond Caravan Park. Richmond is only about thirty kilometres north east of Hobart and is to be our base for the next two days (three nights). The day started of with extremely strong winds gusting around the caravan, causing it to do a bit of rock-&-rolling, and that was before we even started to pack up for the move. We did manage to get packed and under way by about 9:35am and the drive was not as bad as we imagined it may be, with the van sitting very steadily on the road regardless of the strong cross winds gusting past us and the occasional short periods of rain and drizzle. Once we arrived in Richmond we had a little trouble finding the caravan park as there seemed to be a shortage of signs to lead us to it, however after a couple of laps of the town and an interesting reverse out of a parking area that did not have a turning space, we eventually found the caravan park and didn't have any trouble setting up. We then decided the weather really wasn't the best to be out and about in so just turned the heater up and pulled out the books to read and one of us thinks they can annihilate the other one in one of the board games we have with us. There was also another attempt to locate the cause of the computer freezing up from time to time and discovering a heatsink fan not working on the video card gives us hope that renewing this item may solve our fault. Tomorrow is forecast to be better conditions and out intent is to check out the local area and maybe a bit further abroad, then Saturday 'one of us' has a hankering to revisit the Salamanca Markets in Hobart. |
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I did mention that we may travel a little further afield today, well I wasn't wrong... We started the day reasonably early for us, leaving the caravan park at about 9:30am and heading out of town on the Tee Tree road, which surprisingly enough goes through the town of Tee Tree. After passing through Tee Tree we came to Pontville, then turned north to drive up through Bridgewater and Mangalore before questioning our directions because we ended up in Bagdad. Fortunately for us it wasn't in the Middle East and we managed to make it through safely. We then went through Kempton before turning west again and found ourselves crossing the Jordan River which was just passed the turn off to Jericho. We really were taking second looks at the map by this time........ The whole reason for this drive was to arrive at a town called Bothwell which has a claim to fame as being the home of the oldest golf course in the Southern Hemisphere. Although it is not known the exact date of the establishment of this course, it is known that it had been established by 1842 however there is a possibility that it may have been started as early as 1822. The course has not changed very much from it's original design and there are fences around the greens and across the fairways as well. One could say it was an 'interesting' course if nothing else. On arrival in Bothwell we visited the Visitors Centre which also happens to be the Golf Museum that houses a range of old clubs and numerous other old golfing paraphernalia. Next to the Visitors Centre is a cemetery that was established in 1827 and has headstones in it that go back as far as 1834 marking the owner of the plot as being 'James Dean'. From the cemetery 'one of us' directed the 'other one' to the local bakery and checked the products out before we visited the golf course itself. There was a ladies day being played on the course when we were there so we only saw it from a 'fairway' away. Form Bothwell we continued west over the Clyde River, through Hollow Tree (sounds like an obstacle course) and on to Hamilton, North for about ten kilometres before turning off to travel back south through Ellendale, Fenton Bury, Westerway, Glenora, Bushy Park and then we found Plenty before New Norfolk (Plenty was the name of a town, or more correctly a location). We then drove south to Hobart via Rosetta and the centre of Glenorchy. Once in Hobart we took half an hour to walk through the city centre and in the process, purchased a new 'heatsink' fan for the computer, then we returned to Richmond via Cambridge. Arriving at the caravan park at about 3:30pm. We drove through Richmond when we arrived back from Hobart, however we still haven't taken time to walk the streets and see what really is here - maybe tomorrow will provide time for activities such as that. |
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Another quiet day today, our last in Richmond. The morning started out overcast but not as windy or cold as the previous couple of days. A slow start saw us departing the caravan park at about 9:55am and we headed off in to Hobart, about thirty kilometres to our south west. After driving through the centre of Hobart City, we ended up finding a parking bay just south of Salamanca Street, about a block from the action. We walked into the market in conditions that were rather chilly and with rain threatening from above. As we had been here before when Judy was with us, we had a good idea of what we would find and regardless of the weather conditions, the market was in full swing with plenty of people to keep it going. After strolling the full length of the market and back again without finding anything that we 'had' to buy, and with rain close at hand (it did sprinkle) we decided that discretion was the better part of valour as we didn't have any waterproof clothing or an umbrella, so we left them all to it and managed to get back to the car still dry. From the Markets we and drove out past the airport and on to Sorrel, about twenty eight kilometres to the east of Hobart. We found a Woolworths store so 'one of us' had to do some shopping but was very disappointed when she couldn't find any fresh scones to go with the jam and cream she had. We managed to purchase a few items of food that rang the till up just over thirty dollars and then we called in at the Woolworths Plus service station to fill the patrol up with diesel before making our way back through the short cut to Richmond and the warm caravan. The afternoon consisted of a minor computer repair, the heatsink replacement on the video card and then 'one of us' went through all the digital images making sure all the photographs of herself that she didn't like were disposed of (and a lot of other unsuccessful shots as well). Little does she realise that the 'other one' has duplicate copies of all the images that may appear at any time when she least expects them. Tomorrow is another moving day as we make our way over to New Norfolk for three nights before going to Snug again next Wednesday in preparation for our Daughter and Son-in-Law to arrive (may need to stock the fridge up before then). |
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