Strath Gordon

We are staying in New Norfolk and with some pending bad weather we are staying for a couple of relaxing days along the Derwent.
We walked up to the town centre for some beer supplies and a bit of shopping. The storms haven’t really been to bad here and we didn’t get the 100km/r they had predicted. We had some beautiful marinated steaks for tea as well as the Oysters we collected yesterday. We Skyped the kids, Cheryl, Megan, Nathan & Carol and caught up on some overdue Blog stories. All in all it was a good easy day. Now I know a lot of people think what do you need a rest for you don’t work, but travelling isn’t all easy when you are living in the back of a 4WD. Everything gets unpacked and repacked every time you move which has been mostly daily in Tassie. So it is not all beer and Skittles you try finding a new place to live everyday.

Its not to bad a day when we awake but there are dark clouds looming pancakes, cream and the Blackberries we picked are for breakfast and we are all packed up and out by 10.00am as required. After getting some Diesel we left town passing a road side Police blitz. I could just imagine how long we could get stuck at one of those if they actually wanted to search the car. At least they might find some stuff we have lost and or didn’t even know we had.

A drive along the Derwent and then to the South West area to Strath Gordon home of the largest Hydro dam in Australia which supplies 15% of all the power for Tassie, It also has the highest dam wall in Australia to.

This Dam is so large it is just amazing and the scenery along the way is once again rain forest land. We have taken a movie of this as the rain pours down. We walked down to the Dam wall and walked across in lets just say Wintery conditions. We are staying at Ted’s beach on lake Pedder which joins Gordon dam via a channel. Lucky there is a great camp ground shelter here because it is bloody pissing down and not like that soft SA rain this is fair dinkum Darwin rain only about 25° colder. It just didn’t let up it was just amazing with some 100k/m winds to.

The morning was much calmer with little wind and just some drizzle. We cooked breakfast in the shelter and had a long chat with a couple travelling Aus in just a Troopy.After packing up we drove the road back past the Greenies who coincidently were burning a fire to keep warm. I hope they brought some wood that is allowed to be cut down.