There is a pretty little bay near the mouth of the Huon (about 3 hours sail away from home) where we sometimes go for weekends called Eggs and Bacon Bay and recently a mooring came up for sale so we decided to grab it

We decided it was worthwhile being able to sleep without having to worry about dragging regardless of what the weather does

Looking forward to spending some weekends there

Regards Don

Very nice

Beautiful

Did the mooring come with a block of land or a house? (Picture from Domain).

Are you teasing us, or are you trying to entice us all to move to Tassie. What a top looking spot. Does it get overcrowded??

I think I saw this mooring advertised in www.ultimateberths.com ... stunning location :)

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Toph said..

Are you teasing us, or are you trying to entice us all to move to Tassie. What a top looking spot. Does it get overcrowded??

Hi Toph

We were there on a long weekend in summer a couple of years ago and there were 3 or 4 other boats in there but it never seems to get overcrowded down here

Regards Don

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Yara said..
Did the mooring come with a block of land or a house? (Picture from Domain).

No unfortunately not

Regards Don

won't be so pretty if woodchip barges start floating down the river

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bayview said..
won't be so pretty if woodchip barges start floating down the river

Hi Baywiew

The jury is out on this at the moment http://www.huonvalley.tas.gov.au/page.aspx?c=15813

There has been a lot of talk around the valley recently about this at the moment and personally I would rather it not happen but realistically I don't think it would have much affect on me personally, the river itself or the sailing that happens in the river

We already have salmon pens anchored in the river and being towed up and down the river every day but the river is that wide (it is massive) it isn't really a issue

When I get a bit more time I will speak (type) bit more about my thoughts on this

Regards Don

Woodchip barges can be quite attractive. Many a classic painting features workboats. Besides which, Tasmania needs industry to pay their way in Australia

We live at Port Huon (6) and the new mooring is at Eggs and Bacon Bay (3) about a 2 hour motor or sail away





The proposed wood chip loading location is Surges Point the is pretty much in the middle of the two

The only real effect it will have on us is that we will be seeing the barges each time we sail except when they are at Southport transferring the chips to the overseas ship

Initally in the proposal it said that their would be 2 barges ties up at Surges Point and 2 on swing moorings in the river and this concerned me but I have been assured by the owner of the land who will be running the shebang that the 2 that are not tied up to the jetty will be on moorings down at Southport and that won't affect me at all

Some of the residents ( I was told 50/50 initially but now it seems to be more) who live in Waterloo Bay where it will be located are against it so it may not even get approved by Council

Regards Don

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Yara said..
Woodchip barges can be quite attractive. Many a classic painting features workboats. Besides which, Tasmania needs industry to pay their way in Australia

l think you really meant to say woodchip barges can be quite ugly ( l can't think of one that is attractive, let alone quite attractive lol )
l have half a dozen oil paintings of Tassie cray boats around the place, now they are quite attractive,
l quite agree with you that Tasmania needs to lift it's game before it can take it's place as part of Australia

This is what we have in the river at the moment in the way of salmon pens and they don't cause a drama so i dont imagine a couple of barges being towed up the river each week will make too much difference



Regards Don

That area looks amazing. I spent alot of time around there but only on land. Alot of tassie is getting pillaged. Friends have land in western tiers and all around them has been logged.
i think generally Australia is pretty damn good at preservation. Nz where im from has way less trees that here. Geez. Look st sydney. Trees everywhere. Love it. I lived in hobart with a bunch of greenies and what a pack of thieves. Would nick anything off you and say that everything is everyones but i worked 12hours a day picking apples in the huon while those bastards sat around getting stoned on the dole.

Hi Steve

it it is a pretty special area down here and there needs to be some kind of agreement on a compromise between locking it up and having a sustainable forest industry but non of the partys involved seem to be able to agree on what should happen

Regards Don

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Sectorsteve said..
That area looks amazing. I spent alot of time around there but only on land. Alot of tassie is getting pillaged. Friends have land in western tiers and all around them has been logged.
i think generally Australia is pretty damn good at preservation. Nz where im from has way less trees that here. Geez. Look st sydney. Trees everywhere. Love it. I lived in hobart with a bunch of greenies and what a pack of thieves. Would nick anything off you and say that everything is everyones but i worked 12hours a day picking apples in the huon while those bastards sat around getting stoned on the dole.

When I lived there I never left any thing on the pub tables smokes or beer as It would get nicked . I guess in comes form when they came over on the boats last century But just the same top blokes over there . I picked black berries for a week a good picker could make $35 a week so I didnt stay there to long Sand fly was the name of the place steep hills and plenty of mud while your picking went Bell Bay Alco aluminum smelter good money there but bloody hot work.
Thats 40 years ago