#Day 17

Saturday 17th March
We left Stanley and drove down to Smithton, where Mum +
girls + Chris did some groceries, and Dad, Alex, Des + Alicia and myself went
down to the ‘Markets’, which were more old brick-a-brat then markets, but we
all hit the jackpot when we came across the book section. After spending a
while there, and getting a few good finds between us all, we met up with the
rest to pack the cars and head of to our next stop, which we were not told what
it was. We arrived at our destination, in the Tarkine Area, The Dismal Swamp!
Where the brave went down the dismal swamp slide, and the ‘weak’ walked down to
the bottom, to watch their faces upon getting to the end. They had 2 goes, and
both times they look nervous/exhilarated/and like they had had the time of
their life. It only took around 10-15 secs to go down, speeds reached around
30ks and was 90 m high at the start. Definlty a good time. We then had a nice
lunch at their café before starting our last leg of travel, a windy bumpy track
on our way to Corinna. We started at 3pm, and boy where the roads bumpy, I was
just saying to Chris, that it wouldn’t be very funny if we got a spare seeing
as we only had one spare between the 2 camry’s when Des’s car got one. And it
started to rain, so the boys had fun changing tyres while we some nibblies
while waiting. We then took off again, more windy roads and around 6.30pm the
sign we had all been waiting for ‘Corinna 3 ks’ YAY. We pulled up into the
cutest and smallest of towns, got our keys to our eco friendly villa’s and made
ourselves home (Corinna is an historic
mining town, set on the Pieman River, it is an ecofriendly town, with backup
generators, solar power and fresh rainwater, all waste is removed from the
site) . We all had our own units
with gas fire heaters, fresh rain water, and totally in the wild with wallabies
under our verandah and devils screaming at night. It was really nice place to
be, completely cut of from the rest of the world, with no reception for miles,
and surrounded by nature. Sophie + I had an early night, while Dad, Chris +
Alex, walked to the pub for a local beer.