Every May the Photographic Industry holds its Trade Show. As we have a display stand at the show, we have one member stay back after the show to pull down the stand and arrange for equipment to be sent back to Brisbane.
This year the weekend coincided with the May Day weekend in Qld, so I arranged for hubby to come to Sydney on Saturday afternoon.
We went out for dinner on Saturday night and then on Sunday afternoon, we just had to break down the stand and label up boxes to be returned.
We were really lucky and managed to secure a forklift early and were packed up and all done by 2:00 pm. The rest of the day (and the next day) was ours.
Hubby had not been to Sydney before, so I made the decision to ride the iconic Manly Ferry from Circular Quay over to Manly and have fish and chips on the beach. Sadly the weather was not great, with drizzly rain and gusty winds.
We found a cafe and had a lovely meal of fish and chips with a glass of wine.
On Monday, again we caught the ferry. This time over to Taronga Park Zoo.
We decided to see Tasmania in winter 2005 We enjoy the cold and we certainly got cold. We had a great trip and it proved to be the first of many Tassie trips.
Awoke to find a light frost on the ground. It still wasn’t cold though. We did a final check of the vehicle before heading to the airport and heading home. Our flight took off on time at 12:15pm
We had a good flight back and then had a 1hr 45min wait for our bus to the Sunshine Coast. The bus dropped us off just about at the door of the resort. We were home at just after 6:00pm
Awoke to another mild morning, we have now given up on the off chance that it is cold in Tasmania. We have decided it is a ploy to keep the Queenslanders away!!
We headed up to Richmond. Richmond is a lovely historic town that was one of the first settlements of the new colony. Consequently, it has many historic buildings and, of course, the famous “Old Bridge” which was built by convicts in 1834. We stopped at the Richmond Bakery and had another scallop pie!! This time instead of being curried, the scallops were in a creamy garlic and white wine sauce. YUM
After Richmond, we headed to the Barrilla caravan Park. We went here again because of its close proximity to the airport. We gave the van a good clean, packed our bags and had wood fired pizza at the caravan park’s own restaurant.
We got up and had a lovely shower in the 5-star bathroom that are Heimat Chalets Ensuite Sites. We then headed toward Hobart and pulled into the Treasure Island Caravan Park at Berridale.
The lady at the Bus Information centre in Hobart had told us that this was the best park to stay in for ease of bus access to the city. She was right! The bus stop was right at the driveway of the caravan park on both sides of the road. We caught the 10:30am bus to Hobart and wandered around looking at the city.
We had lunch in a nice little café overlooking the harbour. We also went to the Maritime Museum and it was very interesting. We got the 3:30pm bus from the city back to Berridale, arriving at 4:00pm. Crossing the road to get to the caravan park was a little challenging, as it was pretty well peak hour.
Hobart has a Day Rover Ticket that allowed us all day travel on the Metro Bus for $4.20 each. Today was a little colder and foggy all day, but no wind so we were able to stay quite warm. We got a little bit of rain in the city but all in all, it was a nice day.
Temps: Heimat – 5ºc 6:30am
Hobart –
10ºc at 11:30pm
Hobart – 7ºc at 3:30pm
Weather: Overcast and foggy all day with a light shower at lunchtime.
