The day was looking windy but the forecasted 80mm very unlikely .
We enjoyed a real coffee ( the adults that is ) and some muffins then googled a scenic view by road around the area with the help of weather maps and radar .
Bridport was the first port of call only 43 Kms up the road .
The wind and weather played on the fuel consumption yesterday and today the wind would do the same but ah we'll time is getting short down under down under so a road trip we took.
Bridport small coastal town fishing village and gateway to flinders island by boat or plane also some great four wheel drive tracks like the one we took part way to double sandy point with some awesome weather swept sands and coastal dunes , shortly off the track we ran into an interesting couple of shacks and chatted with some locals who were cleaning up after the storm last night to find they had been broken into and some items stolen ( a unregoed rifle laying around for one - naughty naughty) so now beware of any lithgo 22 calibre s going cheap or in a holdup!, there was a very unusual tree of knowledge here as well ( good laff !).
Hotdog lunch in the local park escaping from the winds and finding out friends had been through a tornado in rutherglen area but were all safe and so was nugget our missed doggy.
The local dunes link golf course was absolutely stunning but with today's weather you would be a fool to play a round today or any time soon even though there was plenty hitting off.
After a bit of rude service we skipped coffee and cake here which may have been just as well as the boys were at it in the car then Ej flipped his lid and had a bit of an incident which resulted in banning of all electrical goodies for the a few days ( this turned out to make today even better anyhow ).
Past a few good wineries we didn't stop at :( and onto Georgetown apparently one of Australia's oldest towns and the entrance of the very fast tidal flowing Tamar river where we looked at some sculptures called past peppers York cove resort for a geocache ( sneaky ) and then onto a restored semaphore tower on mt George which is part of an old semaphore system with white 5 metre masts which signalled from low heads to mt direction then to launceston to tell of hips arriving and leaving the type of ship and cargo and many other coded transmissions , quite an amazing system really which was used for many many years .
Fuel was 10 cents cheaper here so I filled the main tank back up saving some coin .
Pilot cove was next and the old museum was shut so we looked around and had a cuppa and cake ( diets not working hey!!) and watched the pilot boat return from a large cargo ship heading for bell bay docking and loading area .
Watching the tide turn here is simply amazing and the ships being piloted through the still treacherous entry to the channel .
We headed upriver to watch the cargo ship arrive and be docked by the pilot and two tugboats and mooring boat , quite a impressive feat considering the fast tide coming in .
Getting on to tea time soon so we spoilt the kids ( out of need for feed as it was too late to return to the camper for any !) and had hungry jacks as the really nice fish and chip restaurant would cost us a bit .
All fed and watered we headed back into the hills all singing merrily guessing who sung what. Song and its name and watched the mass of road kill and wildlife on the roads even managing to avoid hitting any too.
A quick stop at sideline lookout( we recall being here 21 years ago too) where we looked out onto the sparsely lit hills behind Scottsdale where we might look at some waterfalls tomorrow around Mt Victoria and Mt Horror .
It was after 10 pm when we got back to Branxholm with only one other camper here I winder if we will get the promised rain between 12 and 3 , I hope not .
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