A Visit to Port Sorell
Port Sorell is the oldest town in North West Tasmania, a pretty seaside village with a permanent population of about 1500. You can read more about it here. http://www.tased.edu.au/tot/nw/portsorel...
In the early days, Port Sorell was called "Burgess" but the name was changed a long time ago. Other old names, like Squeaking Point, have stayed the same. The river that runs into the sea at Port Sorell is called the Rubicon. You can't see it from the bus, but upstream it's very muddy. There's an old story that a whole cart once sank in the mud and vanished forever!
Here we are, time to get out, and isn't it a lovely April day? The sun is bright and there's not a lot of wind. I love this time of year. We can buy a snack at the shop before we go down to the beach. Do you like sandwiches, or would you rather have a meat pie or an icecream? I pick sandwiches because we're bound to meet some seagulls.
If we walk down this main road, we'll end up at the jetty. We might go there first, because it's a pretty spot, and we might even see some campers. As you can see, there's a warning notice that tells you not to dive off the jetty. I wouldn't anyway, but swimmers do have to be careful here. This is a favourite fishing spot, and in the right season you'll see as many as twelve or fifteen people fishing off the jetty. They don't seem to get in one anothers way. We can walk around to the left here to the breakwater.
Oh, don't worry if you think you're sinking in the sand. You won't go down any more than ankle deep. It's always a bit difficult for the first few metres but the sand will be firmer farther along.
Oh, there's a speedboat! You see them along here sometimes. In summer there are sailboarders as well. That white sand beach on the other side of the bay is Bakers Beach; that's in the National Park. To get there, it's best to drive along the Exeter Highway and turn off to the left.
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