Today we travelled from Cradle Mountain to Stanley in indifferent weather -the heat wave has ended and the more we went North and West the cooler it got. The highlight of the day for John was getting to Somerset, but it was not to be on home turf, it was finding a hairdressers open. (Interestingly Somerset is on the River Cam - the same name as the river we live besides in Cambridge!) Importantly on the hairdressing front a young stylist who had just finished a...

I sit writing this a tad exhausted - as I am recovering from walking the tracks around Cradle Mountain. As the forecast was for another scorcher we were up early and caught the first shuttle bus of the day into the park which left a few minutes after 8am. We alighted at Ronnie's Creek and then walked on board walk across the button grass plain and marshy areas up past Crater Falls, onto Crater Lake then followed the path via Wombat Peak and Wombat pools - in the ...

We were up early to avoid the heat of the day - at 0600 it was overcast, a cool 18 degrees with some rain in the air. We packed up, left Driftwood Villas and headed to Banjos bakery for breakfast - coffee and a ham and cheese toasty for John and coffee with a cheesy herb pita for me - a different but unusually nice breakfast. We were soon on the road to travel the 140 kms to Cradle Mountain - luckily not as twisty as yesterday but still some twisty parts - we pas...

By the time we left Hamlet Downs, after a relaxing start preparing and eating our own continental breakfast it was already 23 degrees - the sky was clear blue and as we crossed over Meadowbank Lake, enroute to the A10, the surrounding scenery was almost perfectly reflected in the water - a truly spectacular sight which warranted photographing. (one is today's photograph). We then made our way through lovely countryside, reminiscent of Scotland - except for the ...

We packed up had breakfast, said our goodbyes to Tonia and set off for the ferry back to the mainland - we thought we might make the 1000 ferry but if not we would have a coffee at the small cafe and catch the 1135 - Tonia reminded us that the 1000 may not be the 1000 and she was right - as we arrived just after 0930 the ferry had loaded some vehicles and was loading a large lorry and not without difficulty then left - much to the disappointment of a long line o...