Even the weather improved and we drove away in sunny and (relatively) warm conditions.
The drive to Melbourne was easy - that new Geelong ring road and the way that the Melbourne roads have improved and been integrated made it simple. It was a little scary with all that traffic though! We Darwin eople aren't used to crowds and speeds like that.
The wait to get onto the Spirit of Tasmania was made a little easier by visiting the Waterfront Bar! We passed the time there waiting foe my brother and his wife (Jim and Sandie) to arrive from their trip down to Wilson's Promontery.
A lovely day.
The trip across was well managed and smooth . . . . . . . . . . . . until we passed through the heads that is. At that point we heard and felt a bang that shook the ship making many of us wonder whether there were icebergs around! It was simply the bows raising and slapping down and this was repeated, albeit much less noisily, all the way across.
Or so people told me - I slept through most of it. No guilty conscience for me!
We were woken by the sudden calm as we entered Devonport harbour and then we spent the day getting off the ship, fending off the quarantine people as we went, and headed across to Launceston where we booked into a van park. There is a food and wine expo here for the next few days and we didn't want to miss that!
We took a visit into the city itself and were quite happy with the way the place seems to have developed. It is a pretty place with history everywhere.
This sculpture took our fancy in particular - Tassie Tigers!
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