21st November 2009, Hobart

This picture has nothing to do with the following blurb. It was taken on Davey Street as we were leaving the Salamanca market.

Saturday 28th and Sunday 29th November 2009, Eagle Hawk Neck.

Well, the rain doesn’t ‘fall’ up.

I stayed Saturday night at Eagle Hawk Neck with a friend. It rained non stop all of Saturday. From my kayaking days I knew it was the sort of rain to bring up the rivers.

On Sunday morning we headed off, in the rain, from Devil’s kitchen to Waterfall bay. It’s graded family, meaning easy enough to do it with a class 4 hangover (class 5 being comatose) or a broken leg

It is a spectacular piece of coast which is mostly sheer cliff. Water was pouring off the rock; this mixed with the rain and was picked up by wind driving up the rock face and blowing the big drops in our faces. We could see curtains of water suspended in mid air, folding and floating like the Aurora Borealis, then rising upwards over the cliff edge.

I don’t have any pictures. It was too wet for my regular camera, and the batteries for my waterproof one have just died of old age – at the same time!

This was the start of my holiday – I’m off to Boat Harbour, slowly.

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