My goodness what a start to our day. Awoke at 2:30 am for my nocturnal bladder visit and as I went back to bed I started hearing strange noises. Started thinking the possums were having parties in the roof but then heard fluttering as in wings. The previous evening I had seen huge moths on the outside of windows and assumed one had got in the house. The noises continued with crunching sounds coming from the kitchen and then whilst trying to sleep and ignore, as the other half always says, I then felt winds flying past my face and realised we had a bat. Hit the man of the house and got his heart pumping and he jumped up and finally found the dear little thing and opened the door and it luckily made his exit. Ewwwwww, the curtains were very heavy pleated folds and we think he was napping in there until he needed a nocturnal flight as I had disturbed him.
Anyway we arose eventually and packed up again and left our little bit of bliss with its possum, potaroos, birds we are not sure of and the b****** bat and headed west towards the most outward point we could of this island. Apparently entry by tour only as the tip is privately owned by some conglomerate so we couldn't check out too much. Lots of dirt roads and heading in and out towards the coast when we could. My goodness did we have winds blowing from Africa as in the roaring forties I think they were up to the fifties today. But we stopped off first at Montagu, Stony Pt camp ground (still facing Bass Strait at this point) to check the beach and then onto a spot just called Mt Cameron West but when we arrived found it was an aboriginal site called Perminghana and although we nearly got blown off a lookout area we had our morning tea with a great view. My tea was being blown out of the mug as I tried to drink it. Really quite spectacular wild Tasmanian coastline overlooking Ann Bay. Then onto Green Bay to a piddly squat lighthouse but luckily a fellow traveller told us to go down a side road to a lovely beach that had amazing rocks and very pretty, well it would have been more so on a still day with the sun shining. Checked out Bluff Hill Pt and found a spot for some lunch but it was standing up and holding onto our plates tightly in the lee of our car boot door.
So we are now currently ensconced at Arthur River, gales nearly blew us off the bridge as we went for a walk to check our boat for tomorrow's cruise up the river. Hope the day brings us some calmness for our 6 hour cruise. Love to all. xxxx