My trip to Bruny island.

Last weekend i went to an island off the coast of Tasmania with a friend from work called Adam to see a few mates who he knew from his last job. We headed out on Saturday morning about 11 to get the ferry which was $30which we shared. We had planned to get a lift over on Adam's mates 14 foot catamaran but because he had so much stuff we had to drive over. It was such a beautiful day and the water on the way over was so flat, you'll see what i man from the picture below.
We got to Adam's mates house (Mick) after about three hours after leaving the coconut lodge.
That evening we had a BBQ with all the people i had meet, which was a good job as by this time i was starving. After we had food Benny took Adam and I out on his 14 foot cat to catch some flat heads. Adam had mentioned that we may have a fish when we where out at bruny so i had brought along Rodney the $20 rod. Even though some drunk numpty had stood on Rodney's reel and put a fairly big crack down it, i still managed to catch a nice size flat head. I had 6 catches but only 1 was a keeper. The last bite i had was a BIG fish, it was so big that it broke the line and that meant i was down a wieght and a hook, but i had fun none the less. On the way back to the shore we passed over a massive stingray, Adam said it must have been about a metre to a metre and a half across! Obviously i managed to get steaming drunk
The next day i woke up i had such a bad hangover and an even worse neck because i had slept upright in a car seat because i was to drunk to setup my tent! Doh. We'd planned to meet another one of Adam's old work mates the next day called bomber on the account that he had a massive beard! He rowed us out to his little boat in the bay which was such a clapped out hunk of junk. We cruised over o point across the bay which was about 4 kilometres. The water was so calm on the way over and it was a really nice day i thought there would be no problems at all. After we'd sat there fishing for about an hour or so the sun went away and an onshore wind picked up. Benny, Bomber and Adam came back to the boat so we could head back. After about 10 minutes or so of cruising along Bomber swore and then he turned the engine of the boat, at this point my heart sank, hopefully the boat wouldn't do the same! The waves were progressively getting worse and we were really starting to bob about which was really concerning me. Then he muttered the last thing i wanted to hear "Does anyone have mobile support", that made me so nervous. I somehow managed to see the news headlines in Australia TV saying "Four die in terrible old boat tragedy". After a while Bomber got the engine started and we headed back, however we had to go down wind for 10 minutes then up wind into the waves for 5 minutes. As you can imagine it was going to take a good hour to get home. Basically i put my hood up, put my head in my hands and sat there until the waves disappeared and the water became calm again. Adam rowed the stuff back to the beach, then he rowed back for bomber and last but not least he came back for me. I found out later that no-one on the boat was that bothered about anything in the slightest apart from me!
After that affair we went for a drive to a beach just down the coast from Great Bay and went for a drive along the beach in the little car which was a beast. We drove right across from one side of the beach to the other end and curiously the water at one of the beach was slightly red. Benny said it was a red plankton in the water that gave it the tinge. We left after the beach to head back to the main land but when we got back to the ferry port we had to wait for the ferry to leave and return. We got the ferry back to the main land and returned back to the coconut lodge about 6:30. I had a really good weekend and Bruny is a very beautiful place, but the ain't a great deal there to do.

Me on the fairy to bruny


The very big beach with the red water