Day three was supposed to be a lay day with nothing much happening, but,
as everybody in south eastern Tasmania knows, mother nature decreed
that Sunday afternoon would be a time when things DID happen. A storm
erupted that most if not all of us at Kettering could not recall the
like of. Certainly, watching a whole shed cartwheeling and sailing past
Chris Wilson's head to come smashing down on a row of boats was not a
sight that your correspondent had ever witnessed before. Tents were
ripped and flattened, boats were torn off their moorings and cast up on
the rocks, and the Mermaid Cafe lost its roof. A wind speed of 130 kph
was recorded just across the water at Dennes Point, which sounds about
what we experienced. The good news was that, having accounted for David
Ellis and Oscar Metcalfe who were amongst many blown to Bruny, nobody
was hurt, and the LBT fleet is still intact. We will meet in the
morning and regroup. |
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