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david, 6 months ago to pizza Italian

Le pizza sono molte belle.

#pizza #dinner #food

A small pizza in the neopolitan style on a pizza peel. It has a puffed, leopard spotted crust and a few toppings.
A small pizza in the neopolitan style on a pizza peel. It has a puffed, leopard spotted crust and a few toppings.

david, 6 months ago to random

When we got home yesterday, we discovered youngest child had done pretty much nothing to get his car fixed and it was still stuck under the house (unable to change gear).

I did a bit of web searching, watched some videos from mechanics and found it's the shift linkage bushing (confirmed this morning when I pulled the centre console housing out).

Looks like I might actually be able to fix it myself, but am currently awaiting said child to breakfast and get dressed as he really needs to see what it is and how to fix it, for his own good.

david, 7 months ago to food

A well balanced dinner tonight.

Three cheeses, pinot & rosemary jelly, crackers and sloe gin & soda. Almost covered all the food groups.
#food #dinner

King Island black label triple cream blue Pyengana St Columba Blue Bruny Island Cheese Co Raw George
Spring Bay Sloe Gin

david, 7 months ago to roadtrip

Remind me why we left Tasmania?

Urgh!

#tooDamnHot #roadtrip

david, 7 months ago to roadtrip

For reasons I didn’t bother to find out, there’s a Matilda tank in the park in Singleton.

#roadtrip

timrichards, 7 months ago (edited 7 months ago) to random

This Optus outage probably points to the advisability of having two different Internet sources, one via NBN and one via mobile. I have iiNet NBN at home and Telstra 5G on my phone, so I assume they wouldn't crash at the same time. (And if they did, we'd have bigger things to worry about, like an alien invasion.)

david, 7 months ago to random

Pottering around Cataract Gorge this morning.

#tassie2023

The first basin areas from the lookout. There’s a small lake in the centre. A suspension bridge on the right. Small hills (wooded) surround.
Selfie on the chairlift
View of the lake and suspension bridge from the chairlift

david, 7 months ago to food

These things are amazing. Not freeze dried raspberries, actual fresh raspberries encased in thick dark chocolate.

#tassie2023 #food

david, 7 months ago to random

Multi-moss miniature landscape. Liffey Falls track.

#Mosstodon #tassie2023

david, 7 months ago to random

My iNaturalist entries are a pretty decent map of where we've been on this trip so far. :)
#tassie2023

david, 7 months ago to random

Went to Eddystone Lighthouse this morning, then to Little Blue Lake, can confirm it is blue. And did a nice short walk through the Myrtle forests in the Blue Tiers. After that we visited a dairy/fromagerie; and Halls Falls (photos of that on the photog.social account).

#tassie2023

Lea and I with the lighthouse in the background.
Little Blue Lake. A manmade lake containing water with high aluminium content giving it a blue hue.
Moss covered tree trunks and logs with a path winding through tree ferns

david, 7 months ago to beer

Not a bad drop. Bruny island beer co. “oxymoron”, a dark pale ale. #beer #alcohol #tassie2023

david, 7 months ago to random

Once again, waiting for penguins.

#tassie2023

david, 7 months ago to random

Stupid late night thoughts. What if instead of water, I put wine in the humidifier on my cpap machine?

(No, I didn’t do it)

david, 7 months ago to random

Spent the last 45 mins or so remotely instructing youngest son how to change a tyre.

He got there in the end, so that’s a win.

david, 7 months ago to random

Stopping at Bicheno for a Lobster Roll and a couple of photos.

#tassie2023

The Lobster Shack at Bicheno. This is a seafood diner specialising in local lobsters.

david, 7 months ago to random

Bruny Island so far today.

Obtained cheese, bread, honey, visited a lighthouse (took the tour), saw a giant penguin letterbox, found a very furry echidna then ate said bread, cheese and honey.

#tassie2023 #BrunyIsland

A letterbox in the shape of a penguin with a tall top hat on.
An extremely furry echidna.
Bread, sliced, cheese and honey.

david, 7 months ago to sailing

We went for a pleasant 90 min cruise on the Lady Nelson this afternoon. I pulled on some ropes to raise/lower sails as well, because what pirate wouldn’t partake in sailing the ship?

#tassie2023 #sailing #LadyNelson #tallship #Brig

The Lady Nelson at anchor. She is a small Brig, twin masts, square rigged fore and main with a gaff rig off the aft of the main mast. White hull with yellow stripe down the side.
The view down the ship from the bow.
The view forward from the main mast.

david, 7 months ago to random

Pottering around Port Arthur today. Didn’t take the bird lens ‘cause looking at ruins, etc. immediately see birds I want to get good shots of.

#tassie2023

Isle of the Dead. A low island with some trees on it, used as a cemetery for the penal colony
Lea and I on yet another boat.
Ship builders axe and log hook.

david, 7 months ago to random

Today we’re going on a boat. This boat to be precise, out to Maria Island. #tassie2023