Sunday, 13 January 2008

News from the Sunshine Coast

The northeast coast of Tasmania is called the Sunshine Coast and it's a popular holiday area, mainly for Australians. The weather on average is warmer and sunnier than the rest of Tasmania, and there are miles and miles of clean empty beaches. Scamander is just a small village at the mouth of the Scamander River, about ten miles from St Helens, which is the district centre. Today we were walking in the Winifred Curtis Reserve, then along the beach where there was a surf life saving carnival taking place. Tomorrow we are off to Coles Bay where we hope to hire kayaks.

Meanwhile William has been making new friends. Here he is on top of Table Mountain (you probably can't see it but he now has a South African flag pin alongside the Shetland one) then with a young lady friend called Pollie, here in Scamander (and now with an Australian flag pin). Note the beach in the background.


1 comment:

Rose Blatch said...

Hi Tom and Norma. I found the account of your world trip during a bout of nostalgia re NZ. I spent the end of Feb and most of March there with a close friend who had emigrated from RSA (I live in Jhb, RSA). I wish I had known you were visiting here first (you sound like my kind of people)- I could have taken you to some great places that would have knocked the spots off yr stay @ O R Tambo Airport!! I have just been celebrating my business partner's 50th birthday at Ngala Luxury Tented Camp in the Timbavati Game reserve adjoining the Kruger National Park for 3 days. On an early morning game drive on an open landrover, we witnessed an unsuccessful attempt by 3 lionesses and a lion to down a valiant buffalo who had got himself separated from a herd of about 700. It was amazing .. Africa in the raw. I have lived in Africa all my life (was born in Zimbabwe) but have never witnessed anything like this before and I spend as much time as I can in the bush. Addo Elephant Park is but a shadow of the real thing ... Rgds Rose Blatch. Exec Director: International Trade Institute of Southern Africa (ITRISA).