Going East: Two towns for the price of one
Mar. 2nd, 2010 06:47 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
xenithBonus post today because I want to get them out of the way to get to the interesting stuff I don't have many pictures so it'll be a quick post.
I don't know much about Bicheno (pronounced Bish-en-o) although I assume it is named after James Ebenezer Bicheno. Wikipedia agrees with me but if I'm relying on that for information... And we missed this. I thought it was further north.
Whalers Lookout
The most interesting thing at Bicheno is the blowhole.
Which really, isn't that interesting either. Not that I'll miss an opportunity to take photos of moving water.
On the off-chance someone does find such things interesting, I'll put some extra photos of the blowhole into another post.
Back on the road. The farming here seems to be mostly beef cattle (Angus and some Hereford) and sheep, but there's also a number of vineyards.
All I've shown so far have been from the same day. Now it's late and we're about 2/3 of the way there. Cranbrook will be the last stop before we reach the motel.
Just after leaving Bicheno is the turn off to Coles Bay and Freycinet Peninsula. From there to the turn off to Richmond near Sorell is a long stretch of road/coast where I've never been. Not ever. Not even as a kid when I was too young to remember or a quick visit on a school trip. So all new and exciting! I hope :)
There's a look out here, where you can look across Moulting Lagoon to Freycinet Peninsula.
This is Cranbrook.
Not a place of any size, but it's there. There are some larger houses and a mill off the main road but we don't get to see them
Fire station and that looks like a school, or maybe a hall.
The sign out the front says "Gala Kirk Built 1845 Uniting Church".
The Australian Heritage Database says "A small brick Romanesque Revival Georgian church built in 1845 by John Amos (sen) and son James for the insufficient sum collected for its construction. It is a landmark in the small Cranbrook settlement, and is the oldest Presbyterian church on the east coast of Tasmania." That sounds interesting but the Interwebs aren't throwing up any more detail for me.
Fence post and fence strainer :)
The photographs from the next section of road were mostly taken on the way home. If I'm working geographically, I should do them next but chronologically, I could jump to Triabunna and Maria Island, which is more interesting, yes?
I don't know much about Bicheno (pronounced Bish-en-o) although I assume it is named after James Ebenezer Bicheno. Wikipedia agrees with me but if I'm relying on that for information... And we missed this. I thought it was further north.
Whalers Lookout
The most interesting thing at Bicheno is the blowhole.
Which really, isn't that interesting either. Not that I'll miss an opportunity to take photos of moving water.
On the off-chance someone does find such things interesting, I'll put some extra photos of the blowhole into another post.
Back on the road. The farming here seems to be mostly beef cattle (Angus and some Hereford) and sheep, but there's also a number of vineyards.
All I've shown so far have been from the same day. Now it's late and we're about 2/3 of the way there. Cranbrook will be the last stop before we reach the motel.
Just after leaving Bicheno is the turn off to Coles Bay and Freycinet Peninsula. From there to the turn off to Richmond near Sorell is a long stretch of road/coast where I've never been. Not ever. Not even as a kid when I was too young to remember or a quick visit on a school trip. So all new and exciting! I hope :)
There's a look out here, where you can look across Moulting Lagoon to Freycinet Peninsula.
This is Cranbrook.
Not a place of any size, but it's there. There are some larger houses and a mill off the main road but we don't get to see them
Fire station and that looks like a school, or maybe a hall.
The sign out the front says "Gala Kirk Built 1845 Uniting Church".
The Australian Heritage Database says "A small brick Romanesque Revival Georgian church built in 1845 by John Amos (sen) and son James for the insufficient sum collected for its construction. It is a landmark in the small Cranbrook settlement, and is the oldest Presbyterian church on the east coast of Tasmania." That sounds interesting but the Interwebs aren't throwing up any more detail for me.
Fence post and fence strainer :)
The photographs from the next section of road were mostly taken on the way home. If I'm working geographically, I should do them next but chronologically, I could jump to Triabunna and Maria Island, which is more interesting, yes?
