Tuesday, January 2(2)

Reading back over this morning's post, I realise I was a ltlle unclear about what we had been doing.  The trip to Devonport yesterday followed on from a previous trip on Sunday, when we had lunch at a beach-side restaurant called Drift and walked around the Bluff to a lighthouse.

Devonport has the reputation in Tasmania of being a bit seedy.  It's something of a poor cousin in many ways.  The local legend is that, in years gone by, all the crooks and shysters in Victoria, trying to escape the law, would get on the Tasmanian ferry, and end up in Devonport.  A reputation like that sticks and it's only recently that people have started to appreciate the extraordinary attributes of the place.  It's about the same distance from Deloraine as Launceston and we might start to look more in this direction for shopping and so on.