Category: Tasmania

And now for the really good bit – a challenging ride in an environment that is remote and rewarding in its natural beauty – this is what cycle  touring is all about.

After getting both battery chargers fried, I had to hang around in Swansea for new ones to be sent to me and then took off to cross Tasmania from east to west.

It was under threatening skies and with a chill wind that I left Hobart at 11am on Tuesday, 2 January, bound for Bruny Island after 5 days in Hobart that were always windy and often wet.

There was no longer that lurching tension between wind, wave, swell and propeller, so I knew the good ship Spirit of Tasmania had delivered us safely to Davenport, even though I thought I was still asleep.