Day 8, Thursday 2/1/2014, Hobart to South Kingston

Not much sleep last night! Very loud wind and flapping tents. There was dirt blowing into our tent from every possible gauze section, my hair full of it. Winds up to 70 notts (140km/hr) overnight.
Lucky Morgans slept in the car. They had about 7 split poles in their tent. William's tent is now starting to split away from the floor.
Ours and the tent the teens are in fared well, about the the best in the campground. Lucky we had our tent angle facing the wind. There is stronger wind forecast for Saturday at 50 to 150km/hr.
There were tents and tent bags blowing across the river.

Fiona wanted to move to a flash hotel, Col happy for a more protected camp ground and Gary wanting to go straight back to The Spirit of Tasmania.
A compromise was needed to keep this group and trip on track.
After packing our tents we headed in to a cafe in the old section of Hobart to discuss our options and decided to head to the Tourist Information Office to find a cheap, safe alternate accommodation for the next 3 nights.

It was a perfect outcome, managing to book the last 3 cabins (all together) just south of Hobart, near Kingston. They are on the scout grounds. This has turned out to be the perfect central spot for out adventures down around the Huon Valley and gives everyone a break from the weather.

Williams and Parkes then got the ferry back up the river to the MONA art gallery. Morgan's drove as Gary gets seasick but had trouble parking and went out to lunch instead.

The boat trip was surprisingly smooth, the boat cutting right through the swell. The art show begins in the boat which is fascinatingly decorated. I enjoyed a tasty apple cider on the way.
MONA was amazing. Very different, interesting! I even love the building which is built into the sandstone point, with huge walls of carved out sandstone, metal beams and glass.
There were little rooms going everywhere on 4 levels of surprising and sometimes shocking stuff! I felt like I was touring inside someone's head (nightmare). We sent a text to Leah warning her it was probably not appropriate for the kids. It was a sensory overload, at times quite X-rated, and some disturbing stuff. But I loved it. So interesting!

After checking into our cabins we all had a coffee and Christmas cake in William's cabin to plan our swinging bridge and treetop walk in the morning, followed by farm stop tastings, after which Leah and Gary will drop their poles off to a camping guy who will take them home and fix them by Saturday.
Just got an accommodation offer off Seren via Facebook. Thanks heaps. We may have needed that, but were lucky to get these cabins.