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Bridport to Melbourne


09 Oct

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This morning the kids and I went for a walk before breakfast. We visited the chickens and the horse again. We held out our hands for the horse to sniff, and Nathan accidentally touched the electric tape and got a shock. He was a bit upset, but for some reason he wouldn’t admit that he had had a shock, but I had heard it so I knew that he had.

We went back to our room and had breakfast and loaded the car. It was getting a bit late so we didn’t really have time to explore the beach, and so we headed straight to Beauty Point where Seahorse World is, stopping at Beaonsfield for some food before finally arriving at Beauty Point.

Seahorse world was really interesting. We had to go on a tour of the premesis which was set up for tourists, with their main operations being in a different building. An effort was made to set up a seahorse farm some 10 years or so ago, with the aim of supplying sea horses for the Chinese market. There were problems that had to be overcome like how to feed the seahorses. They had to grow live food for them, and that had its own problems. They worked out how to feed the older sea horses dried food, since prior to that they had to grow life food for them as well. In the end, they were unable to provide the Chinese market with 50 kg of sea horses a month, and changed to supplying the aquarium market with live sea horses. It was very interesting seeing how they went about it all, and seeing the size of baby sea horses.

When we left Seahorse world we drove most of the way to Launceston to have a look at the Tamar wetlands. There was a long board walk onto an island in the Tamar river, and a bird hide, and I’m sure it would be a great place to look for birds if…..you didn’t take two small children along, you had more time, it didn’t rain and you could get up high enough to see into the long reeds and grasses. Certainly an interesting place.

From there we drove to Devonport where the kids had a play on a pretty cool playground and we had some dinner before getting onto the boat. Our room this time didn’t have a window, and it vibrated a lot! Still, it was a place to lie down and sleep. Toby is getting a cold, and his coughing woke him and me up at 3:30 am, with his coughing waking Nathan up at 4:15. We all left the cabin to wander the ship and let Andrew sleep.

The ship docked at about 6:30 am, and it was a quick process to drive off the boat (no quarantine this time) and we were home just after 7 am.

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I have enjoyed looking at the maps app on the iPad while we are driving along. The blue dot shows where we were at the time.

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Coles Bay to Bridport


07 Oct

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I took the kids to the playground this morning while Andrew packed the car. We drove the short distance to Freycinet National Park and took a road up to a lighthouse where there was a nice little walking track along a well-formed track suitable for wheelchairs. There was an interesting part on the track that showed how long various sea creatures are. I’m not as long as the shortest animal which was a seal.

We drove back to the main road and parked at the end, which was where most of the walks went from. We had planned to do the 1 hour return walk to the Wineglass Bay lookout (expecting it to take us longer than an hour). Unfortunately when we got there we saw a notice advising us that the lookout was being upgraded and was not open, and the track did not have any viewing spots of Wineglass Bay unless you went the entire way to the beach, some 3 hours return. We just didn’t have the time for that walk, so we had to get into the car and make other plans. We did get to see a Bennett’s wallaby and her joey at the car park, so it was still worth the trip.

We hit the road and started driving north up the east coast. Andrew was keen to drive a road called Elephant’s Pass. It was a very windy road through a beautiful area between Lagoons and St. Marys. After a brief stop at St. Marys we continued on to St. Helens where we had some lunch. We visited a Tourist Information centre in an effort to find some accommodation for the night and decided to stay at Bridport at a place called Platypus Retreat.

It took an hour and a half to drive to Bridport on some very twisty roads. Platypus Retreat is a sort of farm-stay. We were visited by a couple of cats, and both kids were excited to see chickens and a horse on the property as well. The great thing about it is that it is safe for them to run outdoors, so they stayed out of trouble while Andrew and I did our jobs getting gear out of the car and getting dinner ready.

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View from lighthouse walk, Freycinet National Park

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The kids are big on being barriers or boom gates lately. Here is Toby being a boom gate, blocking the path.

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This way Mummy!

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Nathan is shorter than a seal

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Bennetts wallaby and joey

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Port Arthur to Coles Bay


06 Oct

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It was a long, long night last night. I have had a cold for nearly our entire holiday, and Nathan has come down with it as well. He has had a bad cough for a couple of days, but last night he woke up with his coughing, was very upset and was crying as well. It all meant that he had a really hard time breathing until we could calm him down, and he found his difficulty in breathing to be very distressing as well. Of course all the noise of his coughing and crying woke Toby up too, so he started crying….suffice to say we had two very unhappy children for a while. Nathan ended up sleeping in bed with us, which doesn’t work for Toby because he doesn’t have room to roll over in his sleep. So Toby was a lot more wakeful during the night than normal, which meant that I was too. Between Toby’s wakefulness and Nathan’s coughing fits and my worrying about his fever and breathing, there wasn’t much sleep happening for me, and probably only a little more for Andrew.

When the day finally started, it pretty much drizzled all morning. We went to the Port Arthur historical site…by car this time. While we waited for the 40-minute walking tour, we checked out our criminals. When we paid for entry we were given a playing card each, and we had to find our convicts and read about them. I had a 35-year-old who was transported from England for stealing from a house. After the walking tour we went on the 20-minute boat tour before having lunch and regrettably deciding that we had better start driving or we wouldn’t make it to Coles Bay for the night where we had a cabin booked. Port Arthur was a very interesting place, and we could have easily spent a lot more time there, though Nathan and Toby need to be a bit older for them to really appreciate the place.

We left the peninsula and decided to take a road north that the GPS didn’t seem to want us to take. It ended up being a lot shorter in kilometers, but only gained us 6 minutes (according to the car GPS), and it was on mostly dirt roads that were a bit rough at times. We also got to see some unexpected lookouts over Great Oyster Bay. Nathan had a terrible time with his coughing in the car, but thankfully he fell asleep for a while.

We stopped at Swansea to get petrol and to also go to a Pharmacy to see if there was anything that we could get that might help Nathan. His biggest problem is that he wheezes and that is causing him to cough, but besides suggesting an expectorant there wasn’t much else they could suggest except a long, hot shower to help his wheezing. The kids had a play in a playground while I bought some things for dinner, and then it was back on the road for the final haul to Coles Bay.

Our cabin was much bigger than the one we had in Hobart, though smaller that the Port Arthur one, and it had bunk beds in one of the two bedrooms. It was the first set of bunks that we have come across that didn’t have removable ladders, so we had a hard time keeping the kids out of the room. Nathan thought it was great climbing to the top bunk, as did Toby, but we really couldn’t let Toby play on the top bunk unsupervised, so the room was off limits. Even in sparsely furnished places, the kids manage to find so many things that they shouldn’t touch that it becomes draining to continuously tell them not to do things.

Anyway, I do hope that Nathan has a better night tonight.

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Picking flowers in the grass at Port Arthur

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Spiky Bridge near Orford

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Pkayground at the caravan park

Hobart to Port Arthur


05 Oct

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Walk from our accommodation to Port Arthur

Today we got up and packed the rest of our stuff and loaded it into the car. We left at 9:30 am and drove to Richmond to look at the old bridge that was built in 1823. There were ducks and ducklings in the river which Nathan and Toby loved. Then we continued on our way to Port Arthur. We made a couple of stops near Eaglehawk Neck; one to see the tessellated pavement, and another to visit the Tasmanian Devil Conservation Park.

At the Tasmanian Devil Conservation Park we saw a couple of devils being fed. The first one was the mother of 4 month old imps (baby devils, they can also be called joeys), but they were too young to eat meat, so they did not come out of the nest. We had some lunch and then went to see another Tasmanian Devil being fed. The enclosure he was in had a tunnel that we (or the kids) could crawl through, and there was a plastic dome, or bubble, where you could look out into the enclosure. When the keeper came he threw some food right up to the bubble, so we had a very close encounter with the devil. I tried to hold both kids up to the bubble at the same time, but they are heavy and I wasn’t really successful.

We had a look at some of the other devils there, and some other birds and animals, but Toby was tired and resisting being in the mei tai so we left, and Toby was asleep 5 minutes later in the car. We drove to our accommodation, a very nice cabin close to the historic site of Port Arthur. It was very fancy, with loads of space, a balcony, spa bath, nice kitchen, and even a dishwasher, washing machine and dryer. We had a lovely view from the windows of trees, since it was a pretty bushy place but Andrew was disappointed that we didn’t have a view if the bay.

Toby didn’t sleep long, so after he woke we went to a supermarket to get a few things, then went for a walk from our cabin to the historic site. By this time it was getting quite late in the afternoon, and both Toby and Nathan were tired and cranky and it was a very difficult walk, so I took them back to the cabin and left Andrew to look around the historical site for a bit before coming back.

The kids had a bubble bath in the spa while i cooked dinner. It was their first bath since we have been away, so it was already exciting for them to have a bath, but life couldn’t get any better for them when we turned on the spa jets. After dinner the kids were so tired that they both went to sleep pretty easily, so I got to relax in the bath before bed (without the jets because they were pretty noisy).

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Toby showing Angus Bear the sights

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Lookout on the way to the Tessellated Pavement

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Mummy devil having lunch next to her nest

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Kiln at Port Arthur historical site

Bruny Island


04 Oct

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Today we got up really early, especially considering that Nathan went to sleep quite late last night after his little nap in the car yesterday. I had to wake Nathan up at 6:15 am and he wasn’t too happy about that. We had breakfast and got dressed in record time, and by 6:45 am we were in the car and driving to Kettering where we would catch the ferry to Bruny Island.

We got to Kettering nice and early, and paid our $28 as we drove onto the ferry. It took about 15 minutes to get across to the island. We had a boat trip booked from Adventure Bay, so we headed towards south Bruny. We stopped at the very thin neck to walk up to a lookout. There was a great view from on top of the big hill that we walked up. Then we took the other track to the beach. We saw some little footprints in the sand that we assume were made by penguins, since the area is a Little Penguin rookery. They went straight from the grassy bit across the sand to the water, and the same footprints coming from the water straight up to the grass. We also saw other footprints on the sand that looked as if they came from a small hopping marsupial. The kids had a lot of fun on the beach. Toby kept calling it a sandpit. Pretty big sandpit! We picked up a few shells, Toby dug and Nathan made train tracks in the sand. The sand was very fine and squeaked when we walked on it.

We then drove straight to Adventure Bay. Toby had fallen asleep, so Andrew and Nathan went to pay for our booked trip and I kept an eye on Toby. He woke up just before we had to head off to the boat, about a 300 metre walk away. There were three boats to take all the people, and we were told to sit towards the back if we had any sea sickness issues, since the back of the boat doesn’t move around as much as the front. Needless to say, I sat at the back!

We looked at a lot of features and creatures near the shore on the way down the coast of South Bruny, and the two men driving the boat and telling us all about the area were adept at maneuvering the boat so that everyone on it got a good view of whatever they were telling us about.

We saw black-faced cormorants, wonderful rock formations and caves, a blow hole, seals, nesting cormorants, and on the way back we went further from shore and saw albatross flying around, and one of the other boats saw a whale so our boat went to where the sighting was. One of the women on our boat said she saw the tail, but then we didn’t see it again, so we headed back to shore. Nathan loved the boat trip, and Toby did when we were going slow and looking at things, but he was very distressed when we went fast. He doesn’t like wind at any time, and it was very windy and bumpy and he cried and cried and screamed and it was heartbreaking to listen to him. By the time we got to the seals, he was so upset that all he wanted was a breastfeed and he wouldn’t even look at the seals, even though he had been so very excited before the trip to be seeing seals.

Back on shore we had some lunch and started driving down to the very bottom of South Bruny to look at the lighthouse. We took a dirt road that wasn’t the main road. It was a bit bumpy at times, but we came across some unexpected lookouts which were very pretty.

There was a short walk uphill to the lighthouse. Toby desperately wanted to get inside, but the door wouldn’t budge for him, no matter how much hd tried. Nathan took a few photos, including the one below of Andrew, Toby and me in front of the lighthouse door below.

We drove back to the ferry on North Bruny, a drive of some 70 minutes without stops. We did stop on the way to see if any penguins were coming in for the night, but it is now daylight savings time and so it wasn’t anywhere near dusk at 6:00 pm. We made it back in plenty of time for the 7:00 pm ferry, the last ferry of the day. We thought the kids might go to sleep in the car on the way back to Hobart, but they didn’t and it ended up being a very late night for them, and even later one for Andrew and I because we packed up as much of our stuff as we could before going to bed.

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We saw the sunrise! Daylight savings had just kicked in.

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Huon Valley


03 Oct

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Today was another fine day with sunshine. We went for a drive to Tahune Airwalk in the Southern Forests. We stopped at Huonville where the kids had at some fun at a playground. Our next stop was Geeveston. There were signs informing us this was where you buy the Airwalk tickets, and although we thought that tickets would have to be sold at the Airwalk we stopped anyway for a look around the forestry centre and, of course, to buy our tickets.

We drove on to the Airwalk, stopping only once to look at the Big Tree. And boy, was it big! It is said to be the biggest tree by mass in Australia. It is slowly dying and shrinking, though, so another tree will take it’s place in the record books in the relatively near future. The photos I took of it don’t really show the enormousness of the tree.

In fact, the forest was full of huge, tall trees, and it was quite impressive walking amongst them. There were signs telling us that the forest was maintained for multiple uses, which is their way of saying that even though we are logging them, there is still plenty of forest for people to enjoy.

The Airwalk was a walkway built at the level of the tree canopy, and from it you had some nice views. There was some movement of the walkway when walking on it, but not much compared to the swinging bridges we walked to after the Airwalk. The walk to the swinging bridges took us through some magnificent forest and then over two suspension bridges that crossed two rivers that met just past the bridges.

We left the Airwalk and went back to Hobart the long way, going through Cygnet and Kettering. There were lots of apple trees and other fruit trees with many being in flower. The countryside was very pretty.

Unfortunately, Nathan fell asleep in the car which meant he wasn’t in any mood to go to bed at a reasonable time tonight. I tried to explain to him that we were planning on getting up very early in the morning so we could catch the ferry to Bruny Island, but he was adamant that he would wake up when he was ready. I think he is in for a bit of a shock tomorrow morning.

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Inside the forestry centre at Geeveston

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Swinging bridge

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Mona


02 Oct

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Mona from near the jetty

Today was fine all day, in fact there was barely a cloud in the sky. We drove to Battery Point and parked the car for the day. We took a ferry to Mona, a museum for old and new art. The ferry ride was nice, but was bitterly cold once the boat started moving. I was interested to go past the Aurora Australis, after all, you don’t get to see an Antarctic ship every day.

Mona was fabulous. On the way into the building we were supplied with iPods that held all the information about the artworks that would otherwise be on a plaque next to the artwork. The iPod was easy to use, it provided you with options for the closest artworks to click on, and it was nice to be able to read about a piece without crowding it so you could read a small caption. And, of course, the kids loved playing with them!

There were some interactive pieces at Mona which were a lot of fun, but Nathan’s favourites were pieces of art that related to the human body. I don’t think I had a favourite, but I have a few photos at the end of some that we particularly liked. There are some photos of a sort of scanner which Nathan had to show Toby after Toby woke from his nap on my back. Other interactive ones we liked were hanging baskets of plants that made noises when you touched the leaves, and an old typewriter that turned your words into little mobile bugs on the sheet of paper that you could sort of get the typewriter to gobble when you turn the paper roller.

We caught the ferry back to the city and wandered around the Battery Point area for a couple of hours. We found a little playground, a fountain, streets that look quite English, a nice bakery and an ice-cream place (the kids and I indulged in sharing a scoop of Tasmanian ice-cream). We had some very nice fish and chips for dinner before heading back to the cabin.

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Concrete mixer

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A tribute to Madonna, a bunch of people singing Madonna songs

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One of Nathan’s favourites, red liquid being pumped through tubes attached to a white dress.

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Nathan working the iPod

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A scanner you had to press yourself to for getting scanned

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Nathan’s scanner image

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An image of Nathan and me

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Toby with iPod

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Words (news related) created in water droplets

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Nathan watching scenes from Martin Place in Sydney

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Sandstone walls and glass lift at the end

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The boat to and from Mona

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Hi ho Silver!

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Running back to the horse…both kids loved it

Derwent Bridge to Hobart


01 Oct

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Today started out sunny but cold. We packed the car and drove to Lake St. Claire National Park. Neither of the kids seem to be in a good mood today, after a late night last night and an early morning this morning. Nathan, in particular, was being very difficult and easily upset, so our planned short walk was aborted not far in and we walked back to the start along the edge of the lake. He did, however, have fun throwing stones (which were abundant at the edge of the lake) into the lake. So did Toby, for that matter.

The drive from Lake St. Claire was through a drier-looking forest than what we had previously driven through. We stopped at Tarraleah to look at the hydro-electricity water pipes, and because Toby woke up from a short nap we decided to get some lunch from a cafe in ‘town’. I use inverted commas because the whole place is a resort with conference centre on 300 acres of land.

We soon left the National Park/State Forests behind and entered hilly farm land. We finally made it to Hobart and Andrew decided to drive up Mt, Wellington. He said we might even see snow up there. I didn’t think there was any chance of any decent snow, though perhaps there might be some in shadowed crevices. I voiced my opinion, and Andrew informed me that Mt, Wellington is around 1300 metres high and the temperature drops dramatically on the way up the mountain. Our car was showing an outside temperature of 11 degrees, and that dropped pretty quickly to 5 degrees and we weren’t at the top yet.

When we finally got to the top it was really cold and windy. We rugged the kids up as much as we possibly could. Nathan wore his beanie, hooded jumper with hood on, and raincoat. In addition to what Nathan was wearing, Toby wore a wool jumper of Nathan’s and had the sleeves of both the jumper and raincoat covering us hands. Nathan took great delight in knocking the chunky ice off posts and fence wire, while I froze in my thin jumper, raincoat and scarf.

We raced to an observation building that gave us some protection from the bone-numbing cold. The kids ran around and around a raised platform and had a lot of fun. We braced ourselves for the outside again and walked to the lookout platforms. Somehow it didn’t feel quite as cold as when we had first got out of the car, but it was still bitterly cold…except if you could get get of the wind and the sun was shining, which didn’t last long when it did happen.

And yes, in addition to the the thick ice coating everything, there was also snow! It was soft and powdery, like tiny cold polystyrene beads. Andrew and Nathan tried to make it into snow balls and throw it at each other, and Toby just stomped on it. Then both kids decided to climb rocks and were upset when we said it was time to get back into the car.

The car showed the temperature as -1 degree celsius. Andrew had checked the Mt. Wellington weather station online and found that the temperature was -0.7 degrees with a feels-like temperature of -5 degrees. No wonder it felt cold! Mind you, Andrew was wearing shorts….with his really warm jumper, raincoat and beanie. I had felt like my hands were literally freezing, so I don’t know what bare legs would have felt like! Eh, I’m not complaining about the weather, we all had a ball in it.

We eventually made it to our accommodation for the next 4 nights. We are staying in a cabin in a caravan park some 8 km from the city.

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Cradle Mountain Lodge to Derwent Bridge


30 Sep

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Today the weather alternated between rain and sunshine. It felt really warm when the sun was out, and decidedly chilly when it wasn’t. We started the day with another big breakfast and had planned to do a waterfall walk before heading to Strahan, but decided against it when it started raining. Instead we packed the car and left.

We stopped at a little playground in Rosebury, Nathan and Andrew looked at some trains in Zeehan that were part of a museum, and made it to Strahan for lunch. The kids both fell asleep in the car, so they missed the incredible sand dunes before we got to Strahan. The sand dunes are 30 metres high and extend 15 km north along the coast from Strahan. They change as humans, vegetation, and the Roaring Fourties winds influence their shape.

We had planned to stay in Strahan for the night, and do a cruise along the Gordon River. However, we had not realized that the cruises were 6 hours long. They all left in the early morning, so we had missed any chance of a cruise today, and we didn’t have time for one tomorrow. There is a cog-wheel railway in Strahan as well, but it was the same story as the cruise in that it only went once in the morning, and you didn’t get back until the afternoon. We had some lunch and decided that we would push on to Derwent Bridge so that our trip to Hobart tomorrow won’t be so long. We did visit Ocean Beach before leaving Strahan. It is the longest beach in Tasmania and had stones and large shells scattered on the sand.

Queenstown has the most incredible looking bare hills around the town though, of course, they represent at ecological disaster caused by the mining industry of yesteryear. I was interested to see tall, reed-like grasses to be growing over the hills. I can’t remember if the hills had anything growing on them last time I was here….some 25-ish years ago. We stopped on the way out of Queenstown to look into an open cut mine and then it was on to Derwent Bridge for the night.

The road between Queenstown and Derwent Bridge was magnificent. We were in National Parks the entire way. Unfortunately it was getting late in the day, and we didn’t have time to stop and explore some of the short walks from picnic areas along the way, though we did stop to look at the Franklin River when we crossed it.

Finally we made it to Derwent Bridge where we are staying at the only hotel in this small town

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Ocean Beach

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Cold and windy on Ocean Beach

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Poo with a view! Between Strahan and Queenstown

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Cradle Mountain


29 Sep

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This morning, after (a big) breakfast, we went for a short walk (~30 minutes) from our accommodation called Enchanted Walk. It was really lovely, with moss and lichen everywhere, and waterfalls along the river. There were even three little tunnels with pictures on both sides for the littlies who did the walk. We saw a pademelon at the start, a wallaby further along the track, and a platypus once we got back to the dam near the lodge.

We made some sandwiches for lunch, packed our wet weather gear, beanies, sun hats and sunscreen and drive back to Dove Lake. We were prepared for all weather, but decided to just take the gear for wet and cold weather on the walk.

After slathering on the sunscreen (and we still got sunburnt) Andrew and Nathan entered the details of our walk in the Walker Registration book. Toby went unhappily on my back, Andrew had our gear, food and water in a backpack, and Nathan had his own backpack for his raincoat, sandwiches and drink bottle and set off on the Dove Lake circuit, gazetted as being 6 km long and expected to take 1-2 hours. Andrew had a GPS app that seems to think we walked 7 km. Whatever the distance, it took us 4 hours all up, including stops for photos, lunch, drinks, rain, hail, Toby complaining and probably a bunch of other reasons.

It was a stunning walk, and Nathan walked the entire way without complaint. I think the thing that Nathan enjoyed most was that there was so much water around that one part of the track was more like a river than a foot-track. He ended up walking through so many puddles and running water that he was drenched from the knees down. Toby would have loved to walk, but it was too hard for him with all the stones, ad he fell over after about 3 steps every time I put him down.

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Tiny pink-orange fungi

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Along the Enchanted Walk

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Nathan amused himself by banging two stones together to make ‘music’.

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I have been fascinated by all the red growth we’ve seen on rocks

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An old boat shed near the end of the walk.

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