October 03, 2004
Mucking about
Sorry to disappoint you all, but we were unable to do the Walls of Jerusalem bushwalk due to weather. It was raining pretty badly so we decided instead to visit the Northwest coast and went all the way to Stanley. Besides being known as Australia’s Tidiest Town, it is also the home of the Nut. Rob and I decided to take the short and extremely steep walk up to the top and then had a look around. It provides a lovely view all the way around, since Stanley is at the tip of a small peninsula. Beaches on each side of town. We also stopped at Boat Harbour Beach, which now qualifies as one of Rob’s favorite beaches in Tasmania. I’d still prefer Wineglass, even if I have to walk for 2 hours to get there.
After church today we went to a Chinese Restaurant for Yum Cha, or Dim Sum as we know it in the US. It’s not called dim sum here because all of the snack shops in Australia have their version of a certain type of dim sum, the shao mai, which they call dim sim. A slight distinction, but an important one. Like saying that crab rangoon are chinese food—not true.
Later in the day we went for a bushwalk to Lobster Falls. (Don’t ask me about the name, I don’t know.) The walk is short and fairly easy. The falls are fantastic, very remote and intimate feeling. Rob took lots of pictures which will be added soon. The problems came with the walk back. It’s about 45 minutes, but it started to rain and get cold. That’s when you start to rush, since rain jackets were left at home. When you rush, you have a greater chance of say, stepping into a huge bog of mud and ruining one of your shoes about 10 minutes into your 45 minute walk back to the car. eew. As you can imagine, those shoes are now dedicated solely to bushwalking and will not be making the return trip to the United States. The good news is that I’m going shopping tomorrow.
Posted by at 03:11 am
oooh…shoe shopping! Fun! I hope you find some really great ones—and maybe some other good stuff as well.Mary () (URL) - October 04, 2004 at 11:37 am
