Not QLD but almost as good

Sunday, 11 July 2021

Jon and our kids, and 10 other orienteering kids were supposed to be at national junior training camp in QLD this weekend.  It had been exhaustively planned and booked and they were even going to get time to go to Movie World before flying home.  So it was a bit sad that it had to be cancelled when things started to go wrong again on the mainland.

Luckily some kind orienteers with a spacious shack on the waterfront in Coles Bay very bravely offered it to the group and we were all able to go there for a long weekend.

It wasn't QLD but it was still really nice.   We spent the weekend doing a few orienteering training exercises, hiking (the kids went up Mt Amos with most of the other adults while I jog-hiked the hazards circuit), watching the broadcast of the world orienteering champs from the Czech Republic and just hanging around at the shack eating toasted cheese sandwiches. The weather was amazing - cold but sunny & calm. The kids and other adults were great company and everyone pitched in with the cooking/cleaning and everything else. I put out a lot of controls for the training exercises and I just had to take photos of the amazing views the controls had while they waited for customers!

My trip around the hazards was lovely - although it was part of a very big day which included putting out controls in the morning, doing the 17k loop, then participating in the night event (because I couldn't help myself) in the afternoon. The veggie curry that Allison made for dinner was bloody delicious after all of that!   

All of this just demonstrates again proving how very very very lucky we are to be living in Tasmania.