Tuesday, December 2, 2008

Day 135- TAS - Wine Glass Bay

I woke up early one last time in an attempt to see the sun rise. Unfortunately I miscalculated the rising point again - but it was still pretty. The others got up early too (we needed to make it back to the car before the chocolate all melted) . We started the day with a swim in the freezing waters of wine glass bay. It was beautiful but COLD! After that we hiked back out of the bay - the stairs up were wicked and it took us a long time to get out. Eventually we made it back to the car and discovered the chocolate was still solid. We stopped for morning tea and I ran up to the visitor's center while Victoria and Rosie wrote some postcards. We decided to stop at the light house on the way out - it was pretty cold and windy though. We made a good decision getting out of the park early since it turned so ugly. We started our drive to Launceston (the wrong way unfortunately) - needless to say we figured it out after a little while and then restarted our journey in the right direction. We stopped for a car-lunch break and to look at a roadkill Devil :0( We got to Launceston pretty early and after some frustrating traffic patterns in the city center managed to find the visitor's center and get some camping info and directions to Cataract Gorge. We hiked the Gorge into the evening and once again just barely beat the rain. It was terrible weather during the night and I go soaked sleeping next to our broken flap.


Goodbye Australia


I love sunrises

Brrrr

Another invader - I literally slapped him on the bum when he stuck his nose in our food bag - he didn't even flinch!!

Purty

Hooded Plover

Wine Glass Bay in the morning

Whoa windy!

Launceston

Cataract Gorge

The first basin (complete with swimming pool and terrifying chairlift)

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