Today - and last night - was a bit of adventure! We knew there was rain forecasted, but were hoping and planning for the continuing drizzle we'd been having. Instead, overnight we got what several people have told me was the worst weather they could remember seeing in Tasmania, with 80 km per hour winds and plenty more rain. The roof did not come off our cabin - but everything is a lot louder against a tin roof, so for quite a while we weren't sure!
This morning we woke up to slightly less crazy winds, and decided to try our hike anyway. After all, we had ponchos, and we'd travelled an extra 4 hours and stayed overnight just to see Freycinet. It was one of the things I was most excited about - it's an incredibly beautiful park rated as one of the most beautiful and undervisited places in Australia.
We very nearly blew away - I did blow down one set of steps, and luckily landed on my feet! We saw a bit of the view, enough to tell that it would be beautiful if our ponchos weren't wrapping themselves around our faces from the wind. All in all - I think this one is on our "revisit later" queue. Tasmanian Mother Nature was not interested in visibility today!
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