Another day and the camera had no work to do! Just posting a few images from my birthday hike that were taken along the Twisted Lakes Track (great name huh?)
Well… two major ticks off my list today.
First up, we accidentally sold the car!!
Seriously – we were going to sell it, but delayed when we did the Overland Track as it was so much cheaper and more convenient to car shuttle while we had the two cars to get us to the start of the hike and back home again from the end.
Then, with one thing and another, we just didn’t get back onto cleaning it back up and advertising it.
Yesterday a friend called me and said her friends car was cactus and repairing was not worth the cost and needed something new.
Fabulous. So a lady called and arranged to come and see it this morning. I got up early to wash and vacuum it – haha – it’d gotten a bit shabby with all the driving lately.
Nice couple. They asked to take it to a local mechanic for a check over, so we said sure – here are the keys, see you later. (So funny – in the country where people know people you tend to trust a lot more)
They got back and I said they could think about it as we hadn’t got our act together to advertise it so they didn’t have to make hasty decisions. They kinda looked at each other and said they wanted to talk price and paperwork!! Decision made apparently!!
So relieved to have that off my mind. Just one less thing and we owed my parents what the couple are paying us for the car, as my lovely folk helped us out to get the new car, as we really have overstretched ourselves a ‘little’ this year!
Oh well… we are normally less extravagant but sometimes you just got to get out there and do stuff as the opportunity arises!
So – the second tick was to actually get a flight out of Tasmania to Melbourne so I can catch my flight to the USA!! (Fairly important I suppose!!!)
So thats done. Because my international flight is early morning, I need to get the the mainland the day before. Still debating about sitting at the airport all night with my luggage or get a hotel room. I am leaning towards the saving money side and convincing myself I have oodles of time to sleep on the plane! haha. Budget, people Budget!!!!! 😀
OK – time for bed. I have to get up absurdly early tomorrow (note -anything before 9am is what I class as early) as cousins are picking us up and we are all doing a hike up at Cradle (you know – just for something different)
Actually the hike will be about 2/3 a different track
Its also supposed to rain and the warmest it will get is about 11C (51F)
I have a lot of warm things packed and a separate bag with dry clothes to change into – learning my lesson from the last hike!
Cheers!!
Lovely pictures.
Thank-you Carla!! 🙂