It has been over fifteen years since we have been to Marion Bay, on Tassies East Coast. It was the home of the Tassie Falls Festival, which we worked at in exchange for tickets years ago. Revisiting on this trip, we see very little has changed. There's a lot of farmland, a few shacks and houses, an incredible bay and estuary, and stunning beaches.

My mate and I wanted to surf, but it was a bit windy, especially for me on the SUP.

However, in the distance, we could see Boneyard breaking. The break forms out of almost flat sea on an outer reef - quite the mammoth paddle. We could just see it via the binoculars.

To get there, we had to take the 4wd track along the spit which was great fun with my mates in the back. It had been raining so we had some spectacular mud and water to go through.

After a walk on the beach we headed to the next town of Dunalley, five minutes up the road, for one of Tassies famous scallop pies. I'm not overly keen on them but Jamie enjoyed it!

But what he REALLY enjoyed was spotting a farm full of Landrovers. Screeching to a halt, he took the next right and pulled in their driveway. The young man whose cars they were came out with his Dad to admire our Series 3. Apparently we gave them quite the inspiration. That made Jamie feel really good, as he has put so much work into it.

Jessie had only been collecting Landrovers for two years. He had taken a shine to them when he bought his Defender and own Series 3 and had been buying them up to sell their parts.

It was really cool walking around and looking at them all. One of the things we love about them is they have such a history - every owner has also put their own mark on them too.

Jessie politely kept his distance from us, saying he had a cold. Since they opened the borders, COVID has ripped through the Tassie youth. We weren't worried about getting it, except that we didn't want to spend our holidays with a cold.

After we got home, we got an Instagram message from him telling us he just dida RAT test and DID have COVID, all the way out in the middle of nowhere. Now that's probably not a crazy thing if you live in areas where COVID is common, but Tassie escaped it until a month or so ago, so it was a little interesting!

We reassured him we didn't care, because we are all bound to get it eventually.

What a lovely day, all told. A few days on, we still don't have it, so there you go. All's well that ends well.

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