Category Tasmania
King Island – An Hour Away By Plane, A World Away From Home
It’s our 20th wedding anniversary, which means this time in 1997 we were frantically preparing to put our lives into storage and set out across the northern USA and Canada on bicycles (read our Married With Bicycles blog). We wanted to celebrate the anniversary, but have opted for a slightly less ambitious trip. Ian suggested […]
Hobart Shorts Day 3 and 4
Luckily the rain cleared out and the final races were held in fine weather. Race 4 was a park/street sprint around Battery Point and Salamanca Place – that’s more like it! Back on familiar turf. The biggest challenge was finding a parking spot in the CBD. We discovered we had no change for the parking […]
Hobart Shorts Day 2 – Acqua Alta All Over Again
Overnight the heavens opened and the rain hammered down. It eased up before dawn, but was still drizzling steadily, and Mt Wellington was nowhere to be seen. We’d planned to admire the views from Mt Nelson after the morning race, but quickly ditched that idea! Everyone huddled in their cars waiting for their start, from […]
Hobart Shorts Day 1
Our 6 event program of “short” races began today, but not until late afternoon, so we took the opportunity to visit the Tasmanian Botanic Gardens, a short drive away. The gardens are best known for “The Patch” which is a community food program that features regularly on “Gardening Australia”. But there is much more to […]
Oceania and Ocean (Rocks and More Rocks)
Next day was the Oceania Long Distance Champs. We headed north to St Helens then up a very long and tedious dusty road. My two thirds had given me some hope of a placing, but one look at the map and I knew it wasn’t going to happen. The first four controls were in the […]
Bicheno Rocks
Rain overnight left gloomy skies over Bicheno, and no-one was very motivated to be up and about early. People gradually had breakfast and decided how to spend their day – Vic, Tina and Lani went to Douglas Apsley National Park, Pete and Ilze went into Bicheno, and Ian and I had lunch first before departing […]
Oceania Midweek
Battle was resumed over the next three days, starting with the Middle Distance champs at Avoca. This was my first foray into my new age group, W55AS. There are usually only 7-8 competitors, all like me, slower and not so agile. I know a few of them as they’ve moved up with me, but some […]
Exploring Launceston
Having explored both north and south of Launceston, we decided to have a good look around the town itself. Free parking was on offer at the river cruise terminal on the western edge of the CBD. We agreed to go our separate ways and meet up later. I headed off along the bike path that […]
Oceania and World Cup Sprints and Relays
The action got underway at Cataract Gorge, with the World Cup sprint qualifier. The fastest 40 men and women would go through to the A final, leaving a handful to the ignominy of the B final. Sixteen countries were represented included a full Aussie contingent; the top half dozen men and women orienteers in the […]
Touring part 2 – North
Sometimes the nicest days travelling are the ones with very little planning – you just let the day unfold. Today was like that. We headed north up the east side of the Tamar River, thinking it would take about an hour or so, and we’d drive to the end, take a quick photo, and spend […]
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