Most people will know that the weekend just gone, Adam, Andrew, Kyle and I went camping at The Bay of Fires. It’s pretty obvious considering my first two posts for the Feb28 challenge have been photos from there, and a fair few are likely to follow until I fell a creative urge take me over again.
The Bay of Fires, located about a two and a half hour drive away from Launceston is along the states East Coast 10-15 minutes away from St Helens and as most know it was listed as 2009’s Hottest Location by Lonely Planet. The water at Bay of fires is such a nice blue colour, and the sand for the majority of it is as soft and white as you can imagine, apart from a couple of sections where the sand becomes rather rough.
The area is split up into many small beaches, some of them not so small, all divided by granite rocks slowly rusting over time. Sure the water may be cold, white sand = cold water, and you may not find a lot of people swimming in the water there, but if you can brave the chill at first, the beaches are amazing.
On Friday afternoon after a delayed start the four of us managed to get ourselves organized and late in the afternoon we were at our campsite setting up the tent and trying to remember how everything worked, we got there later than we expected because Kyle wanted to see some Fall’s along the way just outside of Scottsdale, falls which we’ve happened to see before, simply because Kyle wanted to see them and had at this time forgotten he had seen them before. We also stopped for a late lunch in Scottsdale.
Friday saw us out having a few drinks on the beach, and ended up with me stepping on a tree root in the dark and some how hurting my foot (it still hurts to walk 4 days later) and after a few card games in the tent we eventually retired. What came as a surprise was how early we all woke up, we are all bad for sleeping in late but some how we were all awake by 9:30.
Saturday started with some swimming, a lot of seaweed and the rough surf pushed me up the shore at one stage, resulting in my short pockets filling up with sand. After some lunch, Courtney and her boyfriend Neil gave us a visit for about an hour that was when we checked out the beaches again and I used the opportunity to grab a few snap shots with my DSLR. The rest of the day saw us heading to St Helens to get Pizza for dinner, and drinks once again, at which time Kyle and Andrew decided it would be fun to go for a swim at night.
Side story, me and kyle were the last ones to the beach when we got there we were looking for Adam and Andrew, we could see Adam by the water and thought we saw Andrew further away near the rocks. Kyle slowly approached and I was asking “Is it Andrew?” I then proceded to flash the torch in the direction and shout “It Really Is Andrew!” only to then realise it was a couple on the beach having some alone time, with Kyle right near them saying “Hi” after that we ran away laughing like idiots
After Kyle and Andrew spent a while swimming in the shallows of the beach they decided they had enough and then Kyle realised how much of a bad idea swimming at night really was, because there is no sun to warm you back up. Saturday night ended with some card games once again, chatting by the fire and yes sleep.
Sunday we packed up, headed to Anson’s bay along annoying gravel roads only to find that it’s a rather boring location and then moving along to Eddystone point to check out the light house which you would have seen in Mondays Blog!
And that ladies and gentle men is my story of Camping at Bay of Fires
