Turners Beach, Tasmania

Finished Easter Holiday down at Huonville so back to Holiday in March along the North West Coast of Tasmania, Australia.  The sunset photo was taken back in March 1999 - yes, a very long time ago and I presume the camera would have been my second one purchased.

The photos other than the sunset are of the Forth River next to Turners Beach, Tasmania, Australia.

 

Forth River at Turners Beach.

The Forth River flowing into Bass Strait.  Just around the corner is a small village called Turners Beach, there is a caravan park there. We used to stay a lot at the caravan park not in busy times and towards the end of our lease and when we no longer had the Garden Centre, if Staff needed us at the weekend we were not far away, that's before we retired!  In those days we had another caravan which served us well.

 

Even though I was a Registered Nurse for several years and nursing I made a career change and joined my husband in his work that being a Nurseryman and Horticulturist. We had a Garden Centre and Nursey, sold Giftware and all manner of things. The people that owned the building and business my husband had managed it for many years, the day it opened in fact then together we leased that business for several years. We worked long hours 7 days a week and rarely took holidays. 

I loved it, similar to nursing in one way.

Now that garden centre and nursery is closed after many people leased it and then the building sold.

From memory our business was one of the first to have a 'homepage' on the internet :) Wonderful memories.

The Forth Bridge below

 

Turners Beach sunset.  Always can count on a reasonable sunset from this beach which I might add is rather pebbly.  Horses and riders sometimes ride along the beach, there are stairs from the caravan park to the beach.

Snow, Sunset, Beach in Winter, Tasmania

On Tuesday June 23, my husband and I are going across the sea, Bass Strait to Melbourne, Australia touring States of Australia for 3 months in our caravan, this we have done in the past several times.  I will put a map on my blog where we are going.
Hopefully I can post at least one photo once a week if not more, it depends on Wi-Fi service and how much data we can use.  When we return home late September I will post more photos of the places we have been.   

I hope you all can follow us as we travel.  I will endeavor to visit your blogs.

This past week we travelled once again to Turners Beach on the North West Coast of Tasmania and stayed for 4 nights.  We had the 4 wheel drive serviced, it's 10,000km one nearby.

Nearly a year has passed since my dear dad passed away, often visit the grave of my parents there, this time someone had stolen the flowers!!  So it was into the city of Devonport to get some more artificial flowers and back to the cemetery to put them in place.  For the life of me, I can't understand why someone would steal those flowers.

On the way to the 'Coast' as we call it, snow was on part of the Western Tiers, so we stopped to take this photo below.

A winter sunset at Turners Beach...lucky it had been a lovely sunny day, then evening.

Also at the same beach there is the Forth River, this photo looks to Bass Strait.

A short walk up the river, the photo of what's on the other side.

Back at the caravan park at sunset.

 Map of where we are going.

Turners Beach, Tasmania, Australia.

Last week we went to the beach for 4 days with the new caravan.
The weather wasn't the best as it rained a few of those days but I managed to get a photo towards sunset of the beach behind the caravan.
When the tide is out you can often see the horses and their riders galloping along the beach, not that they do it often.  

I cooked Turkey in the Gas oven, and had baked potatoes plus veggies cooked on the gas cooktop.
We used the shower and tried out most things in the van to see all worked, soon we will do it all again.Talking about gas oven, the potatoes took 3 hours to bake, next time I will pre-cook them as they were rather dense and are known to take a little longer than other varieties.

We came home on Mother's Day in the morning in time for eldest son his wife and little ones to take me out to lunch.

Monday I had to be present in the Supreme Court to see if I was to be chosen as a Juror.  Oh, yes, I was, so this past week I was on a case which is now finished.
I couldn't win a raffle, but I was the 8th person chosen and I thoroughly enjoyed.

Walking along the caravan park and came across the steps to the beach, it was a rough day at Turners Beach.

View to the East.

4th and 5th Grandchild....a bit blurred and taken with my phone.  I asked her to smile and she normally won't but this time she did.... Miss E just had her 3rd birthday, and the baby boy is 6 months old.