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The water along the bay is the same unbelievably beautiful, blue
green we've seen on a number of beaches here in Tassie. |
At the north end of the road at the Gardens, just north of
Binalong Bay, we looked out over uninhabited coastline.
This area is starting to gentrify and it was really easy to see
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This was the crowd at our crowded beach at Binalong Bay! |
Don't you
feel sorry for us, all this white sand and boring scenery? |
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Just north of our cottage there were several fingers of orange
lichen covered rock that separated the white sand beaches. |
We rented
a self contained cottage in Binalong Bay. This was the
view from the verandah! It was a tough weekend, I'm here
to tell you! |
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Nearby is the Blue Tier, a high plateau that somehow escaped the
attention of the loggers until just recently. There is a
battle brewing over the need to cut the old growth forest in
this area. |
It is
called the Blue Tier because of the blue cast to the hills as
they layer out to the horizon, but the blue color of the trees
when you get close is also pretty spectacular.
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We drove to the north end of the Bay of Fires one morning.
Here's Louise at the boat ramp just north of the lighthouse. |
The
granite lighthouse at Cape Eddystone was built in the late
nineteenth century.
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The lighthouse protects this point which juts out into the sea
at Cape Eddystone. |
Inland along the east coast near Bicheno is Douglass-Apsley
National Park. For some reason, the water in the rivers in
this area do not take on the tannin color like so many rivers in
Tasmania. This pool is a nice spot to cool off for the
folks trekking the park. |
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Another inviting pool in Douglass-Apsley..... |
We finally made it to Friendly Beaches, just north of Freycinet
and south of Bicheno. We had wanted to do this for some
time, but hadn't managed to get there for one reason or another.
Pretty friendly, eh Friends? |
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On the way
home we stopped at Ross to visit the Wool Center and to have a
look at the famous Ross Bridge. It is about 170 years old
and still carries traffic through the main streets of Ross.
The convict carved voussoir blocks of the arch feature famous
personalities of the time, altered slightly so the convicts
could claim the resemblances were just a coincidence. |
Mary
wanted to swim in Binalong Bay, but there were hundreds of these
things every few yards after an onshore breeze, so she decided
it was too cold to swim. |
