We had a nice breakfast at Matilda’s and then headed off to Freycinet. It was a 3 hour drive and we decided to go up the coast and enjoy the little coastal towns and the ocean views. The road was quite narrow so it was interesting when cars came the other way. We passed many rivers, cliffs, fishing villages, and lots of cattle and sheep farms. We also saw the occasional vineyard. The landscape on this part of the trip was so different. We thought we were in Ireland with many sheep farms, rolling hills and cliffs. We met 2 sheep who we named Laverne and Shirley who would not stop talking to us. Quite the pair.
We stopped in Swansea for lunch which was a little town on Oyster Bay. We ate at a little café and Mark had delicious fresh oysters. Like they had just been picked out of the water.
We finally made it to Freycinet and it is a beautiful national park on the water with huge cliffs called the Hazzards. We stopped in Coles Bay to check into the house we had rented for 3 days. Well one of the slogan’s of Tasmania is “Expect the Unexpected”. Well that happened to us as the house was a dump. No other way to describe it. So we definitely needed a plan B. We decided to try to get a room at the Freycinet Lodge in the park. Luckily they had a cabin for us which was much nicer than the ‘dump’ house. Mark negotiated to get our money back from the dump and we ended up only paying a small cancellation fee. Thank goodness. Since the weather was still nice we decided to do the Wineglass Bay overlook walk which is a 30 minute walk up an incline of stairs and rocks. But it was definitely worth it as the view of Wine Glass Bay was spectacular. Then we did laundry which was wonderful as it is so nice to have clean clothes.
We had drinks at the bar at the lodge in front of a roaring fire. Then we had
dinner at the Bistro at the lodge which was delicious. I had the mussels and they were the gigantic ! On the way back to the room a wombat passed right in front of us. Very peculiar little creature.
No comments:
Post a Comment