Today started at 8am. Off goes the alarm and I jump out of bed, full of energy, cause today we are hiking to Wineglass Bay and Hazards Beach. I drag Chad out of bed again, and we go to breakfast. Was yummo! I had poached plums and creamy mushrooms on toast, and Chad had muesli and scrambled eggs with smoked salmon. We pick up our walkers lunch, and we were off!
The national park is about 5 mins away, so we get our pass and map for the hike. Wineglass Bay and Hazard Beach circuit is 11km. A long way. See how we go.
So we get started, and we get scared, the first part is to go up to the lookout for Wineglass Bay, and it's all up. We start to think the whole thing is going to be like this and start to think we should maybe not do the big one.
Wineglass Bay lookout is beautiful, full of people, but really nice. We don't spend long up there and decide we will do the next bit and go down to the beach. This part is just as bad, only down, there is a lot of jumping off steps, it's super steep. This is also where we realise we are in for the long haul. Because there is no way we going back up this track.
Wineglass beach is really pretty, but again, a lot of people, so I hold hopes that most of them won't do the big hike to Hazard Beach and we will have it to ourselves,
So we walk across the ithsmus to Hazard beach, which was 2km. And I was right! We were the only ones there, you have to walk down the beach to get to the next track, and people were following after us, but that's ok, there were. It as many people.
We sat at the end of Hazard Beach and had our lunch. We were entertained by a little bird that I think was a Little Tern. He was diving for fish again and again. I called him Felix.
The weather started to turn a little cold, so we got up for the biggest leg yet. 6 km. it was nice, took us along the coast, we has fantastic views at some points, but by the end we were stuffed. We were very glad to see the end.
We are now back at Sheoaks. Had a cuppa and Chad is having a nap. He is getting old, needs his nana naps. We are off to Freycinet Lodge for dinner. I hope it's nice
I will let you know...
Over and out.
Thursday, January 12, 2012
Day 8 - 12 January 2012
We woke up at about 9am, check out is't until 11am. We packed all out stuff and tidied the house, said goodbye to Stella and Buster and we were on the road again. Destination: Coles Bay, near Freycinet National Park.
Chad jumped in the drivers seat (its always a battle as to who gets to drive). We had to drive through Hobart again and we saw that Mt Wellington was nowhere to be seen. Good thing we went the other day, it was completely covered by cloud today.
We decided to do a detour through Richmond, as I have heard it is very pretty. And they are not wrong! Its like Windsor on steroids, all Colonial buildings, very very pretty. We found another wood shop and I saw they had these beautiful chests. They are hand chiselled from eucalypt and just stunning.....smallest one is $220 though....aw well.
We had lunch at a bakery (I had a pie - surprise surprise and Chad had a sandwich - surprise surprise) was yummy! Those chests in the wood place were so nice...
Then we popped down to the bridge to have a look then back to the car. We happened to drive past the wood place and Chad pulled over and told me to buy the chest! I bolted out and got it....expensive, but its hand made and I love it!
So we were officially back on the road. Our next stop was Raspins Beach. Its beautiful! Crystal blue waters with mountains in the background, so so pretty.
Next was Kelvedon Beach, this one was bigger, but just as beautiful. I cant beleive this area. Everyone was right when they told us to come here.
We then stopped in Swansea and had a play at an exercise park they have there, they have about 20 pieces of gym equipment in the park that you can use, its brilliant, Chad was in heaven!
Then we drove on to Sheoaks B&B, Chad is asleep on the bed, a day of driving has made him really tired...serves him right for not letting me drive at all.....
Chad jumped in the drivers seat (its always a battle as to who gets to drive). We had to drive through Hobart again and we saw that Mt Wellington was nowhere to be seen. Good thing we went the other day, it was completely covered by cloud today.
We decided to do a detour through Richmond, as I have heard it is very pretty. And they are not wrong! Its like Windsor on steroids, all Colonial buildings, very very pretty. We found another wood shop and I saw they had these beautiful chests. They are hand chiselled from eucalypt and just stunning.....smallest one is $220 though....aw well.
We had lunch at a bakery (I had a pie - surprise surprise and Chad had a sandwich - surprise surprise) was yummy! Those chests in the wood place were so nice...
Then we popped down to the bridge to have a look then back to the car. We happened to drive past the wood place and Chad pulled over and told me to buy the chest! I bolted out and got it....expensive, but its hand made and I love it!
So we were officially back on the road. Our next stop was Raspins Beach. Its beautiful! Crystal blue waters with mountains in the background, so so pretty.
Next was Kelvedon Beach, this one was bigger, but just as beautiful. I cant beleive this area. Everyone was right when they told us to come here.
We then stopped in Swansea and had a play at an exercise park they have there, they have about 20 pieces of gym equipment in the park that you can use, its brilliant, Chad was in heaven!
Then we drove on to Sheoaks B&B, Chad is asleep on the bed, a day of driving has made him really tired...serves him right for not letting me drive at all.....
Day 7 - 11 January 2012
I woke to a very brisk morning. They are predicting snow. Stupid place to live, way too cold. I loaded Zelda and waiting for Sarah to wake. She has a sore throat and not feeling great.
I fired up the kettle and made her breakfast in bed. We then got ready and loaded up the washing machine with all our cloths to hopefully get a full set of clean cloths in our bags again.
Buster the resident dog greted us again this morning. Although he does not live here, he spends most of his days there.
The weather does not look good for a skywalk. We decided to go to the place anyway just in case the day changes (it did, several times). The main goal for the day however was to find some Huon Pine, anything made from the glorious smelly wood.
After a sort discussion with the owners of the place, they suggested we travel to Geeveston... as there are some stores there that sell Huon Pine crafts. They also mentioned they went for a swim a few years back... once... and that only last year they put the air conditioner on cooling for the first time in a while... screw this place for living in. So cold here.
On the road again, with about a 1.5hour drive. While driving the rain started, stopped and started and stop and started again. Now, I'm not talking rain, rain sounds too soft for what we had. This 'rain' would clean out Cranebrook in a few hours. It still shocks me that there is so much water around and the grass is not green. The fields are all shades of brown.
We arrived at Geevestone hoping to find a few signs to say, 'Houn Pine here'. There was none. We parked the car and on getting out, we froze. Jackets on, Jumpers on, shaking with cold. We headed for a walk down the street. Seems that Tasmanian's love their pies, this suits Sarah's needs. Pie shop after Pie shop.
Realising that the temperature was freezing while in town, we decided that it would not be a good idea to visit the skywalk. The walk is like a bridge up in the mountains that travels over canyons and over treetops. This would have been uncomfortable for both of us so we decided to just have some lunch and look for wood.
There was one shop in Geeveston that sold Huon Pine. This shop was also the place you get your tickets for the skywalk. The wood was soooo expensive, too expensive. There must be better around.
Across the road was a shop called 'The wall of lollies', we entered and exited without buying anything. My dentist would be proud of me.
Up to the Pie shop for some lunch, hold on... 'Not open Wednesdays' of cause I forgot about how random Tasmanian's are, silly me. Most things are not open Wednesday. Across the road to another pie shop. 12:21pm and they have about 4 pies left. I don't know why, it's that randomness that Tasmanian's have again. Best pie Sarah ever had she said.
Back in the car and we headed back home. On the way in we saw a sign that said 'Enchanted Woods, Huon Pine craft'. So we decided to head for that place. Four seasons along the road and we finally get there. This place was fantastic. The wood craft was awesome. The lady there got talking and she looked a little familiar. She used to teach at a school local to where we loved and she has taught at the school I went too. She lived local for a while and knew most of the teachers I had. Small world. We ended up spending a lot of money here as the woodwork was fantastic. The smells are amazing.
Back on track to home, and halfway down the driveway Sarah say's "You should have got a bowl for the wood fruit you got". We skidded to a halt and I ran back up the drive, you don't come to Tasmania that often do you. Back inside to pick a nice bowl. The lovely lady gave me a free piece of fruit with the new bowl.
Okay, so now we are back on track. Now fully happy with our purchases :D. I'm starving so we headed to the closest food. In Huonville I remembered the cafe Banjo's. Perfect. coffee cross bakery. To get there we needed to park the car and dig out the wet weather gear, a kyak and paddles (as we had to cross the road). Rain Rain Rain Rain Rain Rain. Went we got into Banjo's the rain eased off. Nice thanks...
The coffee I had was great, it tasked like those in the UK and was massive.
Home time to settle in for the afternoon/night. We sat back and watch some tv shows and movie's. The first season of 'Very Small Business' (funny show). Movies watched: Object of my affection and Where the Wild things are.
Sleep.
I fired up the kettle and made her breakfast in bed. We then got ready and loaded up the washing machine with all our cloths to hopefully get a full set of clean cloths in our bags again.
Buster the resident dog greted us again this morning. Although he does not live here, he spends most of his days there.
The weather does not look good for a skywalk. We decided to go to the place anyway just in case the day changes (it did, several times). The main goal for the day however was to find some Huon Pine, anything made from the glorious smelly wood.
After a sort discussion with the owners of the place, they suggested we travel to Geeveston... as there are some stores there that sell Huon Pine crafts. They also mentioned they went for a swim a few years back... once... and that only last year they put the air conditioner on cooling for the first time in a while... screw this place for living in. So cold here.
On the road again, with about a 1.5hour drive. While driving the rain started, stopped and started and stop and started again. Now, I'm not talking rain, rain sounds too soft for what we had. This 'rain' would clean out Cranebrook in a few hours. It still shocks me that there is so much water around and the grass is not green. The fields are all shades of brown.
We arrived at Geevestone hoping to find a few signs to say, 'Houn Pine here'. There was none. We parked the car and on getting out, we froze. Jackets on, Jumpers on, shaking with cold. We headed for a walk down the street. Seems that Tasmanian's love their pies, this suits Sarah's needs. Pie shop after Pie shop.
Realising that the temperature was freezing while in town, we decided that it would not be a good idea to visit the skywalk. The walk is like a bridge up in the mountains that travels over canyons and over treetops. This would have been uncomfortable for both of us so we decided to just have some lunch and look for wood.
There was one shop in Geeveston that sold Huon Pine. This shop was also the place you get your tickets for the skywalk. The wood was soooo expensive, too expensive. There must be better around.
Across the road was a shop called 'The wall of lollies', we entered and exited without buying anything. My dentist would be proud of me.
Up to the Pie shop for some lunch, hold on... 'Not open Wednesdays' of cause I forgot about how random Tasmanian's are, silly me. Most things are not open Wednesday. Across the road to another pie shop. 12:21pm and they have about 4 pies left. I don't know why, it's that randomness that Tasmanian's have again. Best pie Sarah ever had she said.
Back in the car and we headed back home. On the way in we saw a sign that said 'Enchanted Woods, Huon Pine craft'. So we decided to head for that place. Four seasons along the road and we finally get there. This place was fantastic. The wood craft was awesome. The lady there got talking and she looked a little familiar. She used to teach at a school local to where we loved and she has taught at the school I went too. She lived local for a while and knew most of the teachers I had. Small world. We ended up spending a lot of money here as the woodwork was fantastic. The smells are amazing.
Back on track to home, and halfway down the driveway Sarah say's "You should have got a bowl for the wood fruit you got". We skidded to a halt and I ran back up the drive, you don't come to Tasmania that often do you. Back inside to pick a nice bowl. The lovely lady gave me a free piece of fruit with the new bowl.
Okay, so now we are back on track. Now fully happy with our purchases :D. I'm starving so we headed to the closest food. In Huonville I remembered the cafe Banjo's. Perfect. coffee cross bakery. To get there we needed to park the car and dig out the wet weather gear, a kyak and paddles (as we had to cross the road). Rain Rain Rain Rain Rain Rain. Went we got into Banjo's the rain eased off. Nice thanks...
The coffee I had was great, it tasked like those in the UK and was massive.
Home time to settle in for the afternoon/night. We sat back and watch some tv shows and movie's. The first season of 'Very Small Business' (funny show). Movies watched: Object of my affection and Where the Wild things are.
Sleep.
Tuesday, January 10, 2012
Day 6 - 10 January 2012
Ok so the night was not so good. The wind was really bad and kept coming down both the chimney and range-hood. This made some odd noises in the place that sounded like someone was still up. Both Sarah and me had weird dreams about ghosts and things that where not fun. I was up at 4:30am playing Zelda on my Gameboy. I got to another Dungeon :D was productive actually.
I finally got back to sleep. Sarah was up before me again, she was waiting very paciently as today was our trip to The Cadbury factory. Get up Get up Get up Get up Get up !!!
As we walked out of our place there was a guy having trouble putting a fridge onto his trailer. I offered to help and after lifting the fridge up and on the trailer we found out he owns the place. I said to him I thought the place was going to blow away. He then said he built the place... HA!
1 hour drive ahead of us. Apparently if you want to get anywhere in Tasmania you need to go through Hobart first. There is no Hobart bypass (if there was I would call it Hopass). So through the city centre we go again, so painful. Actually was not so bad as Sarah was driving.
Once arriving, we lined up (starting outside the door) and bought our tickets. We just missed out on the 1pm presentation. 1:30pm it is then. At the moment it's 12:30pm so the lady at the front suggested we check out the chocolate shop, how convenient. Sarah was well pleased with this and took no time in finding the shop doors. So confusing as it is, some stuff is more expensive here than at a normal shop? I guess because they have to ship.... wait, don't they make it here?... What? Why are they more expensive?
I purchased some dark chocolate with 85% cocoa and some white chocolate (that doesn't contain any cocoa, kinda). Sarah bought a few blocks of chocolate and some curley whirlys, pineapple chocolate and some twirls.
Through Hobart again and we decided to check out Wellington mountain. Most normal people would say Wellington Mountain was named after an explorer or someone important. Sarah asked me "does it look like a wellie?" me: "eeerrr whats a wellie?". After much laughter from my side of the car and some googleing, a "wellie" is a nickname for a English boot. Funny times. It wasn't named after a boot
So we climbed the boot and once getting out, there is a crisp temperature of 4c. The wind chill was even colder. Sarah drove up and was a little stressed, even though she was fantastic at getting us up there alive. The roads are very small and in some parts only one way. Thanks.
At the top, 20 minutes had passed, some lovely video footage and stunning pictures from Sarah we needed to head off. It was too cold. halfway back down the mountain the temperature read 8c. Once we reached the bottom, 12c.
On our travels Sarah would see a cherry's for sale sign and say "Cherry's?" to ask if I want cherry's. I would answer "Na" each time and to her it seems like I am abruptly saying Na!. She would then follow up with a "You are the worst person ever...". On the way back this time she says "Cherry's", I say "If you like" and skidded the car to a halt and turned into this fresh cherry's for sale place. She was shocked and did't really want cherry's but by the time she was saying "no no no no I don't want any" I was already out of the car. I bought her a 1kg bag of cherry's all to herself. Each sign after that she just smiled and never said "cherry's?" again.
Back to our place again and the rain and wind was set in again. We lite the fire up again and settled in to watch a few movie's. First off 'The kings speech', Second 'Rise of the Planet of the Apes' and finishing with 'You me and Dupree'. We have 8 cherry's left from the 1kg bag. Sarah has had a lot of fruit. does everyone know what fruit does to people if your not used to it... HAHAHAHHAHAH!!! she stinks!
Off to bed and you can hear the house cracking and moving again as it cools down.
So Cold...
I finally got back to sleep. Sarah was up before me again, she was waiting very paciently as today was our trip to The Cadbury factory. Get up Get up Get up Get up Get up !!!
As we walked out of our place there was a guy having trouble putting a fridge onto his trailer. I offered to help and after lifting the fridge up and on the trailer we found out he owns the place. I said to him I thought the place was going to blow away. He then said he built the place... HA!
1 hour drive ahead of us. Apparently if you want to get anywhere in Tasmania you need to go through Hobart first. There is no Hobart bypass (if there was I would call it Hopass). So through the city centre we go again, so painful. Actually was not so bad as Sarah was driving.
Once arriving, we lined up (starting outside the door) and bought our tickets. We just missed out on the 1pm presentation. 1:30pm it is then. At the moment it's 12:30pm so the lady at the front suggested we check out the chocolate shop, how convenient. Sarah was well pleased with this and took no time in finding the shop doors. So confusing as it is, some stuff is more expensive here than at a normal shop? I guess because they have to ship.... wait, don't they make it here?... What? Why are they more expensive?
I purchased some dark chocolate with 85% cocoa and some white chocolate (that doesn't contain any cocoa, kinda). Sarah bought a few blocks of chocolate and some curley whirlys, pineapple chocolate and some twirls.
Through Hobart again and we decided to check out Wellington mountain. Most normal people would say Wellington Mountain was named after an explorer or someone important. Sarah asked me "does it look like a wellie?" me: "eeerrr whats a wellie?". After much laughter from my side of the car and some googleing, a "wellie" is a nickname for a English boot. Funny times. It wasn't named after a boot
So we climbed the boot and once getting out, there is a crisp temperature of 4c. The wind chill was even colder. Sarah drove up and was a little stressed, even though she was fantastic at getting us up there alive. The roads are very small and in some parts only one way. Thanks.
At the top, 20 minutes had passed, some lovely video footage and stunning pictures from Sarah we needed to head off. It was too cold. halfway back down the mountain the temperature read 8c. Once we reached the bottom, 12c.
On our travels Sarah would see a cherry's for sale sign and say "Cherry's?" to ask if I want cherry's. I would answer "Na" each time and to her it seems like I am abruptly saying Na!. She would then follow up with a "You are the worst person ever...". On the way back this time she says "Cherry's", I say "If you like" and skidded the car to a halt and turned into this fresh cherry's for sale place. She was shocked and did't really want cherry's but by the time she was saying "no no no no I don't want any" I was already out of the car. I bought her a 1kg bag of cherry's all to herself. Each sign after that she just smiled and never said "cherry's?" again.
Back to our place again and the rain and wind was set in again. We lite the fire up again and settled in to watch a few movie's. First off 'The kings speech', Second 'Rise of the Planet of the Apes' and finishing with 'You me and Dupree'. We have 8 cherry's left from the 1kg bag. Sarah has had a lot of fruit. does everyone know what fruit does to people if your not used to it... HAHAHAHHAHAH!!! she stinks!
Off to bed and you can hear the house cracking and moving again as it cools down.
So Cold...
Monday, January 9, 2012
Day 5 - 9 January 2012
I woke up to the lovely smell of coffee. Thank you Sarah. We packed our bags and the car in a brisk temperature of 8c. Before checking out of the Chateau we had the Continental breakfast. After filling my plate with poached eggs and scrambled eggs I was told by Sarah very quietly 'The continental breakfast does not include the hot food'. So i raced to my tabled and ate them as quick as possible. $18 each for cereal, I don't think so!! Give me the hot food for that price.
6 Hours of driving ahead of us and we are off.
Detour through Hobart to have a sticky beak at the shops and town. Not impressed actually. Two words sprung to mind, Gritty and Rushed. I guess with any unplanned town you will have issues with buildings stacked against the next. Almost bought a laptop, i just couldn't justify the money just yet, the laptop I am using to write this does the job just fine. Kinda. Had a coffee at Gloria Jeans again and just as we got to the car, I needed to crap. So we raced around for a while until we found a place to poo and I was ready to go again.
We arrived at our place near Cygnet called Moon river Retreat. This place is stunning. The views are amazing. Although there is a 3 meters high of glass at the front and the wind is at high speed, it is very warm in the house. Sarah has been reading out the instructions to the place and there seems to be a media player. After further investigating there is a hard drive next the TV, Jackpot :D.
No placed to eat out tonight as this is Tasmania and everyone closes at 4pm. We headed to the local IGA and we bought food to make spag bowl for the next few days. I bought stuff to make fresh bread also. Spag Bowl and fresh raisin bread/roll was awesome. Much better than eating out.
I just spoke to Mum and Dad. As we were talking the sun came out of the clouds and Sarah in a panic ran to the balcony to get some pictures. I filmed the whole thing.
Sarah is still having issues with the sun set as the weather down here changes minute by minute. Clouds, Sun, Clouds, Sun... Dark, Rain, Wind... Ow well maybe tomorrow we get a nice sunset shot hey Sarah?
6 Hours of driving ahead of us and we are off.
Detour through Hobart to have a sticky beak at the shops and town. Not impressed actually. Two words sprung to mind, Gritty and Rushed. I guess with any unplanned town you will have issues with buildings stacked against the next. Almost bought a laptop, i just couldn't justify the money just yet, the laptop I am using to write this does the job just fine. Kinda. Had a coffee at Gloria Jeans again and just as we got to the car, I needed to crap. So we raced around for a while until we found a place to poo and I was ready to go again.
We arrived at our place near Cygnet called Moon river Retreat. This place is stunning. The views are amazing. Although there is a 3 meters high of glass at the front and the wind is at high speed, it is very warm in the house. Sarah has been reading out the instructions to the place and there seems to be a media player. After further investigating there is a hard drive next the TV, Jackpot :D.
No placed to eat out tonight as this is Tasmania and everyone closes at 4pm. We headed to the local IGA and we bought food to make spag bowl for the next few days. I bought stuff to make fresh bread also. Spag Bowl and fresh raisin bread/roll was awesome. Much better than eating out.
I just spoke to Mum and Dad. As we were talking the sun came out of the clouds and Sarah in a panic ran to the balcony to get some pictures. I filmed the whole thing.
Sarah is still having issues with the sun set as the weather down here changes minute by minute. Clouds, Sun, Clouds, Sun... Dark, Rain, Wind... Ow well maybe tomorrow we get a nice sunset shot hey Sarah?
Saturday, January 7, 2012
Day 4 - 8 January 2012
Late start for myself (10:30). I am still not well. But getting there.
Sarah has been watching the rain this morning, she was a little disappointed with the weather as we wanted to walk around cradle mountain today. As I woke the sun came out so we had a banana for breakfast and headed to the mountain.
You buy a national park pass from the reception here and that allows you to either drive up to the walks or get a shuttle bus. We caught the shuttle bus up there. I am glad we did as the roads were one way most of the way.
The weather was holding out and seemed to be okay (still very fresh). Halfway up I went to record some video... Forgot the SD card for the camera. After thinking about having to head back down the mountain and then back up I though too bad, then I thought maybe we should share the SD card that Sarah was using. Worked perfectly.
We get to the top and we are ready for our walk. The walk we did was Dove Lakes Circuit, a 2 hour walk. That is 2 hours without stopping it seems.
Off we went stopping and taking pictures, taking video, constantly swapping the SD cards from camera to camera. The views were amazing and the weather was stunning. Check out the photo's and Video's. There was a constant battle between some groups, we would overtake, they would overtake then we all stopped at the same spot. Was a fun walk.
We got back and signed our names out of the registry just in time to get on the shuttle bus. By this time it was 14:51 and we both were starving. IT STARTED RAINING, POURING! We had walked the entire Cradle mountains walk without one drop of rain and here we are finished on the bus to come home and BAM! raining like crazy. We were so lucking and felt very happy about today's weather.
After getting back to the café where the shuttle bus drops you off, we had chicken wrap and coffee for myself and Thai pumpkin soup with hot chocolate for Sarah. Then we headed to 'Cradle Mountain Shop', this place looked like where me and my sister had our picture taken ages ago, probably not but we went there anyway.
Back to the Chateua where we are staying and we jumped into the photography gallery that they have on site. Amazing pictures in there. Nothing Sarah can not take though!! When we get back I will be getting a decent computer for her so she can work on her photography career. Probably a mac to go with her ipad, they have awesome screens.
We are now sitting in our room waiting for dinner time 19:00. Sarah is editing video on her iPad... I am on my laptop writing this journal. I'm wishing I had a better laptop so I can edit when traveling, I am thinking an Macbook air (i7 128SSD) be perfect for editing. If Sarah can edit on her iPad that would handle anything. I'll get one when we get back as there are no Apple stores in Tas :D
Over and out for today.
Sarah has been watching the rain this morning, she was a little disappointed with the weather as we wanted to walk around cradle mountain today. As I woke the sun came out so we had a banana for breakfast and headed to the mountain.
You buy a national park pass from the reception here and that allows you to either drive up to the walks or get a shuttle bus. We caught the shuttle bus up there. I am glad we did as the roads were one way most of the way.
The weather was holding out and seemed to be okay (still very fresh). Halfway up I went to record some video... Forgot the SD card for the camera. After thinking about having to head back down the mountain and then back up I though too bad, then I thought maybe we should share the SD card that Sarah was using. Worked perfectly.
We get to the top and we are ready for our walk. The walk we did was Dove Lakes Circuit, a 2 hour walk. That is 2 hours without stopping it seems.
Off we went stopping and taking pictures, taking video, constantly swapping the SD cards from camera to camera. The views were amazing and the weather was stunning. Check out the photo's and Video's. There was a constant battle between some groups, we would overtake, they would overtake then we all stopped at the same spot. Was a fun walk.
We got back and signed our names out of the registry just in time to get on the shuttle bus. By this time it was 14:51 and we both were starving. IT STARTED RAINING, POURING! We had walked the entire Cradle mountains walk without one drop of rain and here we are finished on the bus to come home and BAM! raining like crazy. We were so lucking and felt very happy about today's weather.
After getting back to the café where the shuttle bus drops you off, we had chicken wrap and coffee for myself and Thai pumpkin soup with hot chocolate for Sarah. Then we headed to 'Cradle Mountain Shop', this place looked like where me and my sister had our picture taken ages ago, probably not but we went there anyway.
Back to the Chateua where we are staying and we jumped into the photography gallery that they have on site. Amazing pictures in there. Nothing Sarah can not take though!! When we get back I will be getting a decent computer for her so she can work on her photography career. Probably a mac to go with her ipad, they have awesome screens.
We are now sitting in our room waiting for dinner time 19:00. Sarah is editing video on her iPad... I am on my laptop writing this journal. I'm wishing I had a better laptop so I can edit when traveling, I am thinking an Macbook air (i7 128SSD) be perfect for editing. If Sarah can edit on her iPad that would handle anything. I'll get one when we get back as there are no Apple stores in Tas :D
Over and out for today.
Day 3 - 7 January 2012
Sarah was up again at the break of dawn to catch the sun rising. I slept, I'm still sick and catching up of some sleep really makes me feel better for the day.
We left our first place we stayed to head first to a petrol station, I was stressing over no fuel. To the 'Tasmanian Zoo'. It was so funny, all the animals are so cheeky there, they call you over cause you have food then try and steal it from you hahha. Loads of video footage. Funniest thing is when a tassi devil tried to eat my camera
Then after a decent couple of hours we had seen all the check we could and headed to GET PETROL! still none.
Finally we got some at a Service station, that's right a service station, where they service you. Where they put petrol in your car. This lovely lady put petrol in my car and told me that the first time she went to Sydney was a little while ago to see ZZ top. She said next time she goes (not that she wants to) she will take salad sandwiches, so when the homeless ask for money she will hand out these sandwiches. Such a nice lady. He eyes hurt from all the car fumes in Sydney. Moving on.
To the Tasmazia or the maze place. Was unreal. I lost Sarah once and I have it on film, I won one race with her through one of the mazes. It's all on film and is loads of fun.
Sarah talking now! So the mazes were so much fun, we had a great time racing each other, but it was time to get on the road again. We were headed to Cradle Mountain.
I made Chad stop a few times for photo opportunities, there was a really cute sheep at one stop that licked my hand and tried to bite my bum.
We started winding up the really steep hills which eventually evened out to a horrible place called Middlesex Plains, it was a huge area just full of dead trees, was very morbid and in this overcast weather, it made it worse.
But then we came across our accommodation, Cradle Mountain Chateau. It's lovely, we have a king split level room that looks out onto the bush. AND it has a spa, which I will define fly be using later.
We booked in for an early dinner at Grey Gums fine dining restaurant. It was soooo good, I had pork belly and Chad had slaughter baby wallaby thrown on a char grill. Poor baby wallaby, he seemed to enjoy other though.
For dessert I had Creme brûlée (surprise surprise) and Chad had caramel pariffe, and he also discovered he does not like Khalua.
During dinner it started to rain, which is making us second guess tomorrows hike, we may spend the day in front of the fire......it's so cold!
So I think I a, going to have a spa, so that's it for day 3.....onto the next!
We left our first place we stayed to head first to a petrol station, I was stressing over no fuel. To the 'Tasmanian Zoo'. It was so funny, all the animals are so cheeky there, they call you over cause you have food then try and steal it from you hahha. Loads of video footage. Funniest thing is when a tassi devil tried to eat my camera
Then after a decent couple of hours we had seen all the check we could and headed to GET PETROL! still none.
Finally we got some at a Service station, that's right a service station, where they service you. Where they put petrol in your car. This lovely lady put petrol in my car and told me that the first time she went to Sydney was a little while ago to see ZZ top. She said next time she goes (not that she wants to) she will take salad sandwiches, so when the homeless ask for money she will hand out these sandwiches. Such a nice lady. He eyes hurt from all the car fumes in Sydney. Moving on.
To the Tasmazia or the maze place. Was unreal. I lost Sarah once and I have it on film, I won one race with her through one of the mazes. It's all on film and is loads of fun.
Sarah talking now! So the mazes were so much fun, we had a great time racing each other, but it was time to get on the road again. We were headed to Cradle Mountain.
I made Chad stop a few times for photo opportunities, there was a really cute sheep at one stop that licked my hand and tried to bite my bum.
We started winding up the really steep hills which eventually evened out to a horrible place called Middlesex Plains, it was a huge area just full of dead trees, was very morbid and in this overcast weather, it made it worse.
But then we came across our accommodation, Cradle Mountain Chateau. It's lovely, we have a king split level room that looks out onto the bush. AND it has a spa, which I will define fly be using later.
We booked in for an early dinner at Grey Gums fine dining restaurant. It was soooo good, I had pork belly and Chad had slaughter baby wallaby thrown on a char grill. Poor baby wallaby, he seemed to enjoy other though.
For dessert I had Creme brûlée (surprise surprise) and Chad had caramel pariffe, and he also discovered he does not like Khalua.
During dinner it started to rain, which is making us second guess tomorrows hike, we may spend the day in front of the fire......it's so cold!
So I think I a, going to have a spa, so that's it for day 3.....onto the next!
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