Monday, 20 February 2017

Today was a special day as I had planned from go to visit Wineglass Bay but first we left Scamander heading for St Marys and then heading for the coast again stumbled upon the Mt Elephant Cafe at the top of Mt Elephant. Crepes were the speciality which we had to try and they were excellent. Had an issue as the cafe way up in the mountains it had no eftpos, cash only. If the customer does not have cash the process of trust involves the customer taking an envelope with the bill down to the nearest town, Bicheno, go to the ATM and drop in the cash and the envelope to the newsagent. Bicheno is a magic place and although the weather was lousy the scenery and facilities were superb.  The blow hole was amazing and the nearby rock island had a seal colony basking in the rain and wind. The sheltered inlet was picture perfect and we were told the weather was perfect, yesterday.
From Bicheno we headed off down the Freycinet Peninsula to get to Wineglass Bay. To get to the bay it is quite a trek and after some toing and froing we decided to give it a go. Many, many steps, steep climbs and around 1 hour we made it to the Wineglass Bay lookout. Burning calf muscles and heart pounding was worth the view and the trek.
A quick visit to the Eureka Berry farm at Swansea before settling in for the night around Swansea Villas.



1 comment:

  1. Hi wow lots of interesting reading your trip sounds great and you have seen so much. Agree Bicheno is lovely that is where we saw the pengium migration a few years ago. Catching up with Mat must have been good something you could have done a few years ago. It is only a small island but there is so much to see, we coiuld certainly go again. Is Roberta getting to Salamanca markets in Hobart! Have a good trip home we will see you on your return for ore details love Colleen and Barry xx

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