Trish Travels: All Aboard!

Day 80 - All Aboard!

Thursday, 17 April 2014

Thought it would be a noisy night! Something with an oversized exhaust drove past during the night!! Why??

Heard the ferry come in and then the hot rods came off. Now we know why we have been passing them the last few days - coming over for a competition in Hobart. These must be the late comers. They will be racing down to Hobart today. When we went to bed last night we were in the midst of fellow campers waiting to get on the ferry. When I stepped out of the camper I discovered they had already gone to line up and we were surrounded by the hot rods that had just come off. They didn't realise we were going on, but one of them kindly manoeuvred out of the way so we could get out.

Made coffee in the 'line up' whilst chatting to everyone else. Quite social. The rain had stopped, but we had still packed up wet canvas. Oh well, nothing we can do about that.

Eventually on board, level 1, at the bottom. Even though we were one of the last to line up, because we are not oversize we went to the bottom. Guess what, yup! Fourth last off the boat at Melbourne, didn't think we would ever get off.

Armed with lots of ginger tablets, and a relatively calm crossing I was alright this time. Went straight to deck 10, where it is a little bit cooler. The boat was rolling (gently) from side to side and discovered that so long as I sat sideways, so I was face on to the roll (not side to side) I felt ok. Must remember this. Maybe when HH is throwing me around the mountains when he is driving it is that sideways motion that is unsettling??

Trip seemed a lot longer going back, and eventually we disembarked and were warmly greeted by the most gracious of hosts, Mona and Emile, who had waited patiently to have dinner with us, and my favourite, homos and tabouli. Felt very spoilt.

We slept so well that night, no hot rods!!!! Or rain on the canvas.