Mt. Field National Park campsite cont.

April 5th, 2004 at 12:00am

Hanging out in the park for another day, waiting for my friend Evan to arrive from Sydney tomorrow. Met a cool girl from Adelaide yesterday named Gaye (also travelling on her own), and we drove up the road to a cute little coffee shop along the creek for an afternoon ‘cuppa’. She seems keen to go into the Western Arthur Range which is where Evan and I were planning to go, so it seems as if the three of us may go together. There is certainly safety in numbers when going into the most rugged mountain range in Tasmania!

In the meantime I have kept myself busy hanging out with other travellers in the campground – mainly one guy from Germany, two guys from Ireland, and a girl from Canada. We had a good fire going last night and spent quite a few hours sitting around it in an effort to stay warm. They’ve all left today, so I walked some of the trails in the park and continued to look for platypuses with no luck. Also hitched in New Norfolk today to get more food for the next walk. I got one ride in with a guy on his way to work in Hobart, and 3 rides back, first with a guy on his way to pick up his kids from school, then with a mom on the same mission, and then with a guy from Sydney staying at the campground. Easy peasy.

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