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Trevor Kenchington said, about the West coast of Tasmania-

>It is a wicked place to be. Even in a fully-powered 45-metre stern
>trawler, I was always glad to be finished with our work on the west side
>of Tasmania and able to slip around South West and South East capes to
>the quiet anchorage in Adventure Bay that Cook had found and Bligh used
>more than once.

George comments-

I can well believe it, though I don't have Trevor's personal experience. I
was fortunate enough to visit Macquarie harbour in benign weather when the
tourist catamaran could pass out through Hell's Mouth, and nose around
outside. I understand that such days are rare.

It wasn't Cook who found Adventure Bay (on Bruny Island, Tasmania), but
Furneaux, in 1773, without Cook. Adventure was Cook's partner-ship, and the
two vessels had separated. Cook visited the bay on his third and last
voyage, in Resolution, in 1777, with Bligh as master. I think Bligh called
again, Eastbound, on one, or perhaps both, of his "breadfruit" voyages.

When I visited, there was an interesting privately-run museum about the
visits of Cook and Bligh, just by the beach in Adventure Bay. It had some
volumes, under glass, which I seriously coveted.

Adventure Bay was indeed a placid spot, but presumably it gets lively in
the occasional Easterly.

The first European visit to Tasmania was, of course, Tasman's, much
earlier, in 1642,  to the East coast, though Tasman himself didn't land.
Instead, the carpenter swam ashore to plant a flag.

As for Conrad, he knew what he was talking about.

George.

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