2021 Tasmanian Trail
Day 14
Day 14 And its over
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Those of you who have been paying close attention to the online realtime Garmin map for my Tasmanian Trail journey would have noticed that my map has been stagnant for the last few days showing me in still in New Norfolk.
As mentioned in my post earlier this week and in the most recent podcast episode, episode 193, the out of control spreading of COVID through NSW was a big worry to me. While I was waiting for the New Norfolk post office to open on Monday morning, I was also making the decision on whether I should continue to Dover or return back to Canberra. For me the risk was getting stuck in Tasmania for a week or two should Canberra lock down given the inevitable cancellation of flights that would have occurred. My decision resulted in a very short notice air flight back home on late Tuesday afternoon.
For me this was a hard decision based on Canberra going into a very hard and rapid lockdown which was announced only a few hours prior to this post it and proved to be the best one. Given that the ACT Government has now designated almost the entire state of NSW as hot spots, with the exception of areas immediately adjacent to our border, I won’t be travelling anywhere for hiking at least for the next week.
I still have leave up my sleeve and after a few days off I will use that time to get back into a routine with posting and I will also be doing a wrap up podcast next week.. Que sera sera!
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Those of you who have been paying close attention to the online realtime Garmin map for my Tasmanian Trail journey would have noticed that my map has been stagnant for the last few days showing me in still in New Norfolk. As mentioned in my post earlier this week and in the most recent […]