A short visit.

Ollie's parents visited us this weekend just past. Was a lovely fun filled weekend.

After picking them up from the airport, we headed out to Rosevears Pub for lunch...We'd heard good stories of this place, and it sounded nice having a view over the river. Unfortunately we arrived about 5mins after the kitchen had closed! So we headed to a little cafe in Gravelly Beach which made very lovely food.

We tiki-toured on the way home, going over the Batman Bridge, and out to Low Head to see the light house, and where the river meets the sea.

Saturday we took a trip to Hobart-town, getting there in time to look through the Salamanca Market, Salamanca Place (out behind the market) and along the water front.

 The day had cleared up quite a bit so we then drove up to the top of Mt Wellington to see the view. Was icy cold like last time, but hardly any snow around.

  

Sunday we stayed round Launceston. Ollie and I took the opportunity of having a car to do the supermarket shopping in ease, while we were gone Theo & Wieke took some more photos :)

We then started our day with coffee down by the river front - where it was low tide, so all the boats were sitting in the mud!!

We then wandered along the rivers edge, stopping to look at a Gunpowder Mill, and into a little shop to get some dropjes (dutch liquorice!).

We then headed up the Cataract Gorge. A great day for showing it off :)

By the time we walked back from Cataract Gorge we were already for a sit down and some lunch. We went to a lovely restaurant in Seaport (on the river front) called Silt, where we had a lovely meal. We decided to then drive (no more walking!) up to the Trevellyn Dam, so see the river that flows through the Gorge, further up.

Then it was home for a last lot of shared wine & cheese before our visitors returned to NZ early Monday morning. Was a short but very sweet trip.

 

To the Edge of The World and back.

After leaving Stanley we drove to The Edge of The World. Its a little point on the west coast of Tasmania, near the Arthur River.

Lovely views out to sea, and lots of waves rolling in onto the beach, just what we like watching! 

  

  

  

  

  

On our way back we stopped at Dismal Swamp in the Tarkine Forest for lunch. From the information the ranger there gave us its a pretty unique place - one of the largest sink holes around.

If feeling adventurous there is a big slide to get into the the forest (we gave this a miss though...maybe next time if we get back up that way!). We just went out on the cantilevered platform to have a look.

This was the view looking down from the platform - looked a bit like NZ bush with all the ferns!

Our last sight seeing stop on the way home was the Table Cape Tulip Farm as we had heard that their fields of tulips should be in bloom by now. Not the peak of their flowering season but still a good sight - enough to imagine how impressive it would be at the blooming peak.

  

  

  

 Very pretty :)