Arrived Coles Bay

Wednesday 18th and Thursday 19th

Arrived at Coles Bay at around 3pm Wed.

Wow what a beautiful spot. Three rocky hills fall to the shore line, "The Hazards" on one side while the hamlet of Coles Bay is on the other.
Freycinet National Park and Wine Glass bay form a part of this area. Wine Glass Bay is noted as one of the ten top beaches in the world.

The shore line on this side is lined with Gums and groves of Sheoak together with the commercial hub, the "Coles Bay Trading Company", a cafe and a small pub, Importantly the pub overlooks a small shoal, part of Great Oysters Bay, with white a sandy beach and magnificent sunsets. Its very inviting.

The drive from Ulverstone was Ok but with little site seeing. We booked into the Big4, "Iluka" and have a good site with glimpses of the beach from a hill that overlooks the roof of the pub and beach below.
Many places in the town are prefaced "lluka" but there seems little available about this name other than a brief reference to "by the bay".
The towns origins come from whaling, tin mining and some farming.
We drove into Swansea today to top up supplies and check out Harrison's SKY DIVING which is booked, finally, for Sunday. (More to come)
I learned a bit about the car and towing, keeping to around 2000RPM at between 80-90Klm seems to be about right but often I need to let off the accelerator in order to get it to drop in to D. Diff light has come on but reading says this relates to a fuse rather than a problem. In all the LA ran well.
Harrison is still becoming accustom to a new life but I think is slowly getting into it. I think it takes a while to understand that life do not end just because you are away. The internet and phones work OK (Next G) only and we networked between the new computer and this clunker. (How come I get the dog?).
One thing we have noticed is lots of road kill, no foxes and beautiful bird life. We will do some walking tomorrow.