We've had a relaxing few days here in Port Sorell. The park is almost completely empty so is very quiet. We find we've been sleeping really late without the usual early risers and packer upers. It's wonderful.
On ^Tuesday we caught up with our laundry and did a bit of shopping-there is a great little strip of shops at near by Shearwater.
Wednesday, we put the boat in on the estuary. I caught a good sized flatty almost immediately, then only one more just size fish in the following three hours. Russ caught a couple of undersized ones in the same time. On the way home, we stopped near the boat ramp and he caught one more good sized one. When we got back to the boat ramp, both were still very alive and active, so we let them go. There are big tides here and that meant our drifts were probably too fast to catch fish-but it's better to d4rift over flathead than wait for them to come to you. Oh well, there had to have one shitty fishing spot!
On Thursday we drove along the old coast road to Burnie. We haven't been there for about 10 years (since my mate Henry lived there) and it seems to have really gone ahead. The CBD is much nicer and the shops seemed busy. We had lunch in a Chinese restaurant, then bought a new doona set and two new dinner sets for the house, and lastly stopped at the Lactos factory and treated ourselves to some delicious cheese. We had a couple of drinks with Blair at the Devenport airport before he flew home to Melbourne which was great.
Today we drove to Beaconsfield to visit the Mining Heritage Centre. It's a pretty decent museum-well laid out and enough to read without going into overkill. I think the most amazing display is the one that deals with the mine collapse and rescue of Todd Russell and Brant Webb in April/May 2006. There is a replica of the pipe that was eventually laid and the cage they were trapped in for two weeks. It's a dreadful feeling just to pop your head up into the space and try to imagine spending two weeks there!
I was surprised at what a pretty area Beaconsfield, Beauty Point, Kelso and Greens Beach is and how many people live there.
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