swimming @ 10 degrees

filed under: tasmania trips

Mann oder Memme – Man or butty boy. Well, Flux belongs to the first group I can tell ya… But one thing after another.

Last weekend we (Flux, Stef ‘n me) went on a two days trip to Bruny Island near Hobart. Planned as a first introduction for Jochen into the great Tassy nature he had to stay in Jane cause he was still struggling with a cold he caught in B’haven (well the way he was struggling may look strange but as I said before – “Man or butty boy”).

Due to our just in time planning strategy we arrived in Kettering as one of the last 8 cars that were allowed for the ferry (regardless the speed limits on the way) ;-)

The whole saturday we spent with driving from one beach to the next. On our way we even found the legendary sandals of Jesus – unfortunately I couldn’t walk over the water with them…

After Flux finished his photo session for his application as a successor of David Hasselhof in Baywatch we continued our exploration with a short walking trip to Mt. Mangana (570m), the highest spot on Bruny Island.

Time for the pasta dude after all that exhausting activities. Pasta was guuuuud mate, can tell ya! Though I’ve never been to a place with more moskitos than that campground da pasta was guuuud man! ;-)

Next day: Sunday. “And at the 7th day god decided to relax and so he built some happy little beaches”. Good work dude!

We did an awesome 6 hour bushwalk around the southern end of Bruny with several bays, beaches and bright coloured outback areas as well as parts of rain forests. As an award for the trip the hardest of us had another men’s bath in the rough and around 10 degrees warm Tasman sea.
For me as the photographer a cold beer from a Tassy couple we met at the beach was cold enough… ;-)

Well, long shadows indicate that there will be another weekend like that, so stay tuned! Next weekend Cradle mountain will be the goal for a second time…

 2004-12-06 by Florian