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Sydenham

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    • Day 2

      Melbourne to Hobart, Tasmania

      February 27, 2023 in Australia ⋅ ☁️ 17 °C

      My Uber driver drop me off outside a secured living area called Watergarden Mews.
      From my host I got the pin for the security gade and it worked. I was a little bit worried about it.
      Then I "just" had to find house numer 55 in thet huge area. And of course, it was not one of the first houses.. No it was 8 minutes to walk to house number 55.
      But I found it!
      Had some trouble to open the door as the touchscreen was very sensitive and I touched a few times the wrong number, but after failing 4 times i made it at the fifth attempt. I tried to sneak in, to not wake up anyone that might be a sleep already as it's already 11:15pm.
      First of all i had a shower. Oh God that was Soo good! Than I packed up the few things I will need for the night, ate one sandwich and basically went to sleep.
      I slept very well, but woke up already at 5:49am and didn't manage to fall asleep again.
      So I was trying to take a nap but in the end gave up and had a sandwich for breakfast.
      After that I started to repack my bag, didn't went so well, but luckily I have the bag cover with some space for the stuff, that didn't fit in anymore.
      At 8:30am I left and walk to the main road where my Uber was picking me up at 8:45am. I arrived at the Melbourne Airport at 9:10am. Dropped off my bag, went through security and than had some time over until boarding. Also this flight is a little bit delayed.. So far not much, supposed to leave at 10:40am and now supposed to leave at 10:56am. We will see, which time we are really leaving..
      I found a place to sit and watch the guys unload and load my airplane, even saw my bag on its way into the aircraft. That was great. Also to really see, how many people are involved in parking, loading on and of, fueling up, deliver the catering stuff and all of this. Even saw the pilot check the airplane. Boarding was going smooth and fast, so hopefully we are leaving soon.
      Tassie here I come! 🤩
      After a short fly we arrived in Hobart at 12:10 pm. Got my back quick and went to pick up my car. That was also going fast and then I was on my way in to Hobart to buy the stuff I need. Unfortunately the first Kmart I stopped at, had basically nothing of the equipment i need. 😳 So I went to the second one, already think about, what I am going to do, if they also don't have a tent and so on.
      At the second Kmart store I got a tent! But there are no camping gas stove, no cutleries, nothing. It was even with the kitchen stuff impossible to get a normal knife. Totally crazy. So no low budget camping for me here, but that's ok. I also we t to buy food and was lucky to get the last cooling bag they had in store. Good that I ask the lady at the check out. I couldn't find them.
      Finally I was done and could leave Hobart to drive to Mount Field National Park.
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