Category Tasmania
It was Pheasant and sunny final day.
On Monday 2/4. the final event of the Australia 3/4 Day was at Curryjong Rivulet north east of Hobart via Sorrell. As we drove past the airport there was a shuddering in the force as many Orienteers passing the road to Seven Mile Beach and the infamous Pittwater Dunes map remembered the last time we were […]
It was a joke Joyce!
The fact that it was Sunday 1st of April totally eluded most of the 600 or more orienteers who returned to Lovely Banks for the Day 2/3 races. It was the same assembly area and the same finish chute way off in the distance and the same 120 metre climb up to the download tent. […]
Five ticks and a cross.
Saturday. 31/3. 43 kms north of Hobart. Day 2/3 of the Australian 3/4 Day began today on the inappropriately named Lovely Banks map. Weather. Lovely. Tick Assembly area. Lovely. Tick. Extraordinary view. Lovely. Tick. Great gathering of good friends. Lovely. Tick Even better Brownies. Yummy. […]
It just seemed like a good idea.
Friday 30/3. Altitude 1260m 5C. We decided to go for a drive to the top of Mt Wellington this morning as a our races didn’t start until after 1.00pm. Getting to the top had seen the temperature fall to 5C and with a 35 knot breeze it brings the wind-chill factor to minus plenty C. […]
What a difference a BAY makes.
Hobart. Thorsdag 29/3. Latitude 42.88. What a difference an ocean voyage of 400 of kms can make. After a quite rough but otherwise uneventful crossing we arrived in Hobart to find that Autumn is in full swing. We picked the Rydges Hotel from Bookings. everything because it had a microwave. What a gem!!!. Yesterday […]
The Last Sprint
As is often the case, we were just getting into the swing of things, when it was time to come home. The final Sprint was at a TAFE college. The organiser had used some sort of dark art to come up with a chasing start list based on a handicap of some sort. We were […]
Three In One
Day 2 of our Launceston long weekend featured three races – a first for us. Even though sprints are short, they are also intense, and we weren’t sure how we’d pull up. We started at UTAS in Newnham, where we ran in 2015. We knew it would be complex and it didn’t disappoint. The map […]
Launceston Sprint Extravanza Weekend 1
Extravaganza might be an overstatement, but when I happened on this 6-races-in-3-days in Tassie, on Eventor, I was instantly up for it. Luckily Ian agreed that it sounded like fun. Most of the rest of the orienteering community headed to Wagga for the pseudo Australian 3 Days, but we decided sprint orienteering was a better […]
King Island – Latitude 40 Degrees South
The wind abated overnight and we had a good night’s sleep. Leaving Netherby Downs behind, we drove south to the Etterick River, which is at Latitude 40. We were now at the mercy of the Roaring 40s, though today the wind was little more than a zephyr. We watched in fascination as the waves crashed […]
King Island North
Overnight the wind sprang up, and the cottage roof and windows were rattling as we woke. It was still sunny and warm, but very breezy. Our plan was to explore the northern section of the island, all the way to Cape Wickham at the tip, before returning to Currie for to sample King Island beef […]
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