Tasmania winter bike tour – day 4

Tuesday 14 August 2012

It rained during the night in damp Roseberry, this place seems like it gets a lot of rain. There is mining here, not the safest in Australia apparently:

Tasmania winter bike tour – day 3

Monday 13 August 2012

What a spectacular place to wake up in, right below Cradle Mountain, I had slept well and was now ready to head west. A nice coat of frost had built up on the tent.

Halifax storms part 3: Heavy snow and rapid thaw

4 January 2015

The first major snow event of the winter in Halifax occurred in the early hours of the morning of 4 January as the warm front from a large storm approached from the south.

Tasmania winter bike tour – day 2

Sunday 12 August 2012

Woke up to a frosty clear morning and the sound of distant dogs. It sounded like those darn canines were getting closer, I guessed it was a hunting party.

Tasmania winter bike tour – day 1

This is the beginning of a write up of an 8 day bike tour I took in August 2012 in Tasmania. I ended up taking a loop around the west coast and back across the centre, with a start and end at Devonport on the north coast. For the first half of the trip I was uncertain about completing the loop back across the elevated plateau because of the potential for snow. The complete route is shown on the map below with the places where I spent the night as blue triangles. Also a kml file is here if you want to see it on Google Earth. Links to the write up for each of the days are below:

Day 2, day 3, day 4, day 5, day 6, day 7 and 8

Inflatable kayaking around Lanai – day 5

8 January 2004

I was awoken after a hard nights sleep on the harbor wall

Inflatable kayaking around Lanai – day 4

7 January 2004

The weather radio revealed the NW swell was down to 8 feet and with northerly winds forecast I felt confident about the journey down the cliffy west coast today.

Inflatable kayaking around Lanai – day 3

6 January 2004

It was low tide as I paddled out from the bay and the Sunny grinded against the very shallow reef.

Inflatable kayaking around Lanai – day 2

5 January 2004

An uncomfortable night riddled with nightmares about losing the boat and equipment in tides and swells was accompanied by a rising wind that beat through the shoreline palms and bushes as the blinding moon swept overhead.

Inflatable kayaking around Lanai – day 1

This is a write up of a solo inflatable kayak trip I took in January 2004 around the island of Lanai, Hawaii. The route is shown below and available at this link.

Camp locations shown as triangles.

Links to days: day 2, day 3, day 4, day 5.

4 January 2004

2 days after a stalled Kona storm dumped 15 inches of rain over 3 days on the usually dry island of Lanai, a weather window appeared and I made my move to try and kayak around the island.