I've Been Everywhere (remember the song)

Well here it is Sunday and we are camped in the bus in the rain on a concrete surface at a a little town called Gowrie Park in the middle of nowhere and to prove we have been everwhere we have even taken a photo of of "Nowhere Else" which we visited today. I kid you not there is a place in Tassie called Nowhere Else and we have been there so I can now proudly say "We been everywhere man"

Since I last brought the blog up to date we have travelled far and wide but really haven't travelled far, just seen s a lot and enjoyed ourselves. From Beaconsfield we moved on to Port Sorell where we camped at the Boomerang Camp which is like a scout camp but with better facilities or power, dump point, showers, toilets and free use of the laundry. There were only four of us in camp and had a good chat. One couple had camped at Beaconsfield the night before us and had their motorhome stoned during the night. Luckily we didn't know about this or Wendy would have had a fit.

From Port Sorell we travelled to Devonport where I had to check something out fo the club and then we went to the Don River Railway and had a ride on a chuchu train. This dedicated bunch of enthusiast are keeping the railway alive for the next generation to enjoy. Unfortunately it had settled in to rain and we didn't get to see the best of it but I hadn't been on a train in 45 years, except for the Wilderness Railway  on the west coast so it brought back memories. We decided to head to Latrobe as we knew there was a good camp site there and settled in only to have the weather improve and discover friends we had made on the this trip were also there, it being a popular site for those waiting there return journey to "Australia". We ended up going to dinner with Sandy and Mary-Jean and Gordon and Helen. This morning we woke to find Brian and Rhonda from Townsville had also joined us in camp. This truly is a small world down here.

Today we have taken a round about trip to Sheffield but we had not made it finding a nice spot at Gowrie Park for the night, getting here via Devils Gate and Lake Barrington. The dam at Devils Gate is quite spectacular and unique in design with double curvature and is one of the thinnest dam walls in the world due to its unique design. Approx 80meters in height and 130meters across the top of the wall it holds back 27kilometers of waters in it's dam. Not far from there we took a turnoff to the Lake Barrington recreation grounds with a very steep decent only to find about a million people (slight exaggeration) and a major rowing regatta in progress. Getting through the masses in narrow roads in the bus was an exercise in itself and the second gear 2k climb back to the road was "interesting".

We finally descended from the mountain country after of course visiting Nowhere Else and have now settled in for the night and the camp site is rapidly filling up with Queenslanders.

We hope to catch up with Alan and Maureen by Friday as it is Maureen's birthday and no doubt there will be a celebration.