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.
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