Day 8 - Devonport to Narawntapu National Park

We motored 120km today after a lazy morning at camp.  In so doing, we took in an area east of Devonport along the coast and ending up in the Narawntapu National Park.

Our first eye opener for the day was a raspberry farm which was splendid in its white covering, top to toe ...... and there were berries on the canes.  Tempted though we were, there were as many berries when we left as when we arrived.

040315 Raspberries

040315 Raspberries - a bigger picture

040315 Raspberries - the really big picture ... and this was only half of it

There were many little hamlets stretched out along the coast including Hawley Beach, Freer's Beach and others which we did not visit.  Our first target was Port Sorrell but it seemed to have morphed into this series of smaller beach developments.  It is on the Rubicon River so needless to say, this river was front and centre for most of the time.

040315 Hawley Beach on the road to Port Sorrell

040315 Got the message at Freer's Beach

040315 The boat ramp at Freer's Beach - with wind blown sand

Our second target was Narawntapu National Park.  This is on the eastern side of the Rubicon River. Sadly though, National Parks staff were conducting a controlled burn and driving through the smoke to reach places like Baker's Beach was unpleasant.  We admired their ticker in conducting the burn in 50km/h winds but they were unfazed.

040315 The Rubicon River in from Port Sorrell

040315 Rubicon River further upstream

040315 Eastern side of the Rubicon River at Baker's Point in the
Narawntapu National Park, with smoke from Nat Parks' controlled burn

040315 Baker's Beach in the Narawntapu National Park

040215 Wind blown water taken from Baker's Point

This was a very relaxing afternoon and we were not confronted by decadent challenges as we were yesterday.  We were however blasted continually by strong westerly winds.  On the upside, the sun was shining most of the time.

040315 A peace offering after a brief shower and the annoying wind ? - alas "No"