Day 26 - 19/2/2014 – Coles Bay Downpour!
We had a sleep in and a late breakfast. Which turned out to be well
timed for us because just as we were packing up and getting ready to
leave to do the walk to Wineglass Bay, a storm hit with torrential
rain. It dumped 42mm in about 30 minutes!
With the van park being on the side of a hill all of the roads turned
into rivers! There was a couple camped in a tent on the downhill
side of us and the rivers were pretty much swamping their campsite.
All they could do was to put a few boots under the up hill side of
the tent to lift the floor off the ground and let the water flow
underneath the tent while they were sheltering in their 4WD.
With a hell of a lot of water flowing fast and heading downhill, it
flooded the cafe, shop and pub directly below the van park.
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We were lucky that we hadn't started the walk to Wineglass Bay as we
would have been absolutely saturated. There is no way our spray
jackets would have kept us dry form that amount of rain. When we
finally set off for the walk to the Wineglass Bay lookout it was
still very cloudy and misty, but at least there was no rain!
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| Looking back down onto Coles Bay |
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| Wineglass Bay |
We didn't bother trying to walk down to Wineglass Bay itself as the
track was very steep and very slippery due to the down pour. Instead
we drove out to the Cape Tourville lighthouse and also did another
small walk at Sleepy Bay.
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| Views from the base of the lighthouse |
Again there was another fantastic sunset.
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