Tasmania 2023 – Week 2 Triabunna
Day 15
Today is about taking time, having a coffee, not needing to be anywhere. It is a day to do some chores like the washing, unpacking and repacking the car. It is a simple day. It is a day to book our next cave visit and then, after purchasing a couple of meat and salad rolls for lunch, venturing up to Three Arch Bridge – a convict built bridge, 35km up the coast. We pass a winery, Boomer Bay, but decide against stopping in.
It is really saddening that there are some toads out there who decide that they need to tag relics like this Bridge.
Having said that, the Bridge changes in height from me being able to stand as I walk through (I am 172cm tall) to having to bend to the height being about my chest when I get through to the other end. Walking from the coast side to the inland side is the changing which makes you shorter. It would have been the original roadway – it is the path underneath that shortens. Walking through from the inland to the beach side brings a beautiful vista as you look out towards the Freycinet Peninsula.
There are shells on the beach and lots of seaweed and kelp on stems/trees.
The Dutch and French explored this area long before the English decided to land convicts here. Tasmania was known long before the majority of the mainland. It is interesting how we interpret history and what could have happened had those early explorers settled/conquered the country. A different story for a different speculation.
We partake of our lunch in beautiful surrounds then mosey back the way we came. We stop in at the IGA for some easy foods for dinner and put our feet back up for the rest of the afternoon. I pick up one of the books I have purchased on this trip, “A Cargo of Women”, and enjoy some vanilla slice. I hear passing vehicles but there is also an absolute quiet, sitting on the front veranda at the cabin we are staying in for this second night. The day is a moderate 20 degrees but it feels cold and the sky, likewise, implies the same,
