Continuing on from day 1:
On the second day of our Tassie leg, we tearfully departed Cradle Mountain. I rank it as one of my favorite places in the world and there were so many more walking routes to discover that we wished we could have stayed another night or two! I hope one day I will return.
First thing's first, we drove about an hour to our brunch destination.
We got sidetracked when we spotted a field full of cows! (I'm quite sure we actually went down a private road to get closer heh.)
The guys were particularly excited to see cows. I was just like, okay, cool. Lol.
Christmas Hills Raspberry Farm - I wanted to come here because everything on the menu has raspberry! Grown right behind the cafe in their farm.
Raspberry latte!
Joel's slow roasted rib-eye beef with bacon on sourdough and tomato relish.
K decided to be adventurous and try the wallaby meat burger. :/
Wallaby and bacon patty with marinated Ashgrove fetta and pepper berry relish.
He liked it :o
(How could you after seeing so many cute wallabies the day before!)
My pancake topped with grilled banana, Mersey Valley cheddar and bacon served with raspberry jam. I really died and went to Raspberry heaven! SOOOO GOOD. I really like dishes that are both sweet and savory. (Now that I'm craving it again I shall try to recreate it. Hmmmm though I doubt I can ever reach this standard!) In the foreground is M's pancake with raspberry icecream and hot raspberry sauce. She ordered from the dessert menu haha.
Every dish we had was soooo good, I really highly recommend this place to anyone visiting Tassie. They also sell a lot of homemade raspberry products. K & M bought back some raspberry wine.
There's even raspberry scented socks? Lol
Behind the cafe, beyond the lake is the raspberry farm. I'm not sure if public entry is allowed, but we didn't venture there.
Someone found a small ball and started kicking it around. lol
How the cafe looks like from the lake! Love this place.
We found a low-hanging tree and started snapping 'candid' shots. "Just pretend to laugh and point in a general direction!" *so natural*
Opposite the road from the cafe was an ice cream shop, so we drove over and picked a cup up. I was too full so the boys shared a cup.
And we found a rainbow on the table outside. And proceeded to spend 5 minutes trying to capture a good shot. haha. #cheapthrills
Next up we drove down to Bicheno. We came here to see the blowhole! The pictures I found of this place were beautiful. The whole place is just gigantic slabs of rock. And if you look over at the horizon, you can see the waves crashing upon the rock. If the wave was big enough, the water would sprout out the blowhole.
The guys had fun playing with different poses. No wonder they are cousins haha.
Until Joel got drenched haha! I told him not to go so close. I told you so!
There's this area called Bay of Fire somewhere north-east of Tassie. It's called that due to the orange hue of the rocks along the beach. But we decided to skip that due to time constraint because it was a detour for us. In the end we found similar rocks near the blowhole anyway! I assume not to the full scale but the idea is there anyway.
We took soooo many coupley/bokeh pictures we lost track of time and ended up spending more hours there than planned.
Just down the road was this seafood shack where we stopped to get some grub.
We had oysters, fish and prawns. And although the food didn't look like it, it was all so fresh and really worth the trip there! Everyone agreed. (I still don't like oysters though. :/ )
And finally, our main destination for the day was Freycinet National Park, which ironically we spent the least time at. Haha. The wallabies here aren't afraid of humans at all! I guess they may be used to our presence, and perhaps people have been feeding them?
(That is our SUV in the background! Our trusty Ford.)
There were a few cars there but unfortunately we met the hikers while they were climbing down. That meant we are the last group to arrive that day! And the sun was setting in less than an hour. This was bad news for us. :(
The climb up to the lookout point for Wineglass Bay was probably 1 hour hike uphill. This isn't the view we came for but it was probably the only thing we saw while there was still daylight.
Somehow, we missed the turn and went the wrong way. (It was getting so dark so we were rushing and didn't see the signage.) And by the time we realised it and retraced our steps to the right route it was past sunset ): And mind you this was probably only 5pm or so.
Our eyes probably captured it better than any camera could, but this is all we saw of Wineglass Bay. Sigh. On a normal day if you had the full day in Freycinet, you could probably hike down to the beach itself and do water activities. Anyway, google Wineglass Bay and you will see really gorgeous pictures! Too bad we missed it.
The trek uphill was bad. But the trek down was an experience in itself. It was PITCH DARK, and there were no lamps or artificial light whatsoever. Luckily, there were two SAF trained men with us so they didn't even bat an eyelid. (Thank you NS?) I, on the other hand, was freaking out cos I HATE to be in the dark especially outdoors in the wilderness where some rogue animal could attack us!!!! Okay, exaggerating here but I really hate all kinds of "night walks".
With the help from our phone torchlights we trekked downhill for what seemed like the most torturous 45 minutes of my life.
As if the night couldn't get any worse, my period came at that moment. ZZZZZ.
*Shakes fist at mother nature*
Such a burden but thankfully my traveling partners were so understanding. Everyone was so tired from our ordeal but no one grumbled and everyone sprung into action to help me locate the toilet - which luckily was near the carpark though we found it to also be in pitch darkness. (-_-")
Dearest M actually stood with me in the cubicle to provide some light. So blessed to have her around!
Moral of the story: proper time management is so important!
What an adventure this is turning out to be.
xxx
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