I'm shattered. I'm on a flight from Hobart to Sydney on Thursday 13th Jan and I can barely type. Still, at least I'm on my flight. This morning there was a real possibility that wouldn't happen. So what happened yesterday? Lots of things, actually. We started the day feeling optimistic despite the weather continuing to frustrate us with rain. We had meat and a public barbecue and we'd all had hot showers. Good start. Then we went to Queenstown and things started...

Well the clouds didn't stay away. Not a jot. I slept ok but my ten degree sleeping bag didn't do much to keep my feet warm. We packed our tents in a semi dry morning and had a big breakfast, then got to Cradle Mountain National Park to start walking at 10am. The weather wasn't great but the rain stayed light as we ascended the ridges around Dove Lake. The climbs were tough in places and the views over the lake were good, but the cloud continued to veil Cradle Mou...

Another long day, this time for driving. We made it all the way from our Bay of Fires camp, beyond Launceston and Sheffield to Lake Barrington. Mostly in the rain. A gourmet breakfast of orange juice, cereal, bread and jam and coffee started us off well. There was rain in the air when we packed our things into the car and set off. And so it stayed, fairly steadily with occasional breaks, for the whole day. Stopping in town before getting going, we also had the l...

Huge day for us. My phone with the help of Lorenzo woke me at 5:20am to see the sunrise. Lorenzo, Brecht and I walked halfway around the beach and waited, though the morning was as cloudy as last night. Lorenzo gave up and started to walk back. Brecht and I waited a few more minutes and were about to go when the sky lit up as if it was on fire. It was so spectacular I actually thought there may may a forest fire over the hill! We had our breakfast of bread and j...

We finally picked up our hire car and sped off into the sunset. Well, not quite. That was after I'd learnt how to start the car, then how not to drive down one-way streets in Hobart. We headed for Freycinet National Park in the hope of setting up camp in there. On the way, we went through Oatlands and Ross for an ice coffee and Lucy respectively. Our lunch consisted of economy bread and some kind of anonymous pink meat. I loved living on a budget, though I'm sur...