Shortly after we left Great lakes we turned off the Highland Lakes Rd and onto the Waddamana Road. This road passed by the Penstock Lagoon, and the Waddamana Hydro power station.
This power station was the first Hydro power in Tassie, and was completed and turned on one hundred years ago, in 1916. It was decommissioned in 1964 and has been turned into a museum. The dirt road continued 60km south all the way to the Lyell Hwy in Ouse.
We had a break at Meadowbank Lake
After heading south through Westerway and Bushy Park we headed north again and hit the dirt on Marked Tree Rd.
A minute or so after that picture was taken, near the locality of Pelham, a small wallaby shot out of the bushes on the side of the road and before I could even react i felt my front and rear wheels both go over him. The Super Tenere stayed upright, but I decided to stop and check for any damage. I pulled the front brake lever and it sank all the way to the handlebar with no resistance. Got off and had a look around but there was no sign of any obvious damage to the wheel or brake lines. I pumped the brake a few times while it was stopped and normal pressure built back up. Got back on and moved off again. Tested the front brake and it pulled all the way back to the lever, but if I pumped it a few times then stopping power would return, but this proved to be very problematic while riding, and the front brake wasn't much use except as a park brake and I relied on the rear brake for the 50km or so into Hobart. Straight to the Yamaha dealer and a quick check revealed that the right front disk was warped enough from the wallaby impact to push the brake pistons back into the caliper whenever the wheel rotated. We were planning to stop here for a couple of nights so a new part was ordered from Sydney with the expectation it would probably arrive late on Thursday morning.
We found our motel in Battery Point and settled in.
The locals are quite modest