Estimated Reading Time: 2 minutes Our last day before flying home tonight. Mike was in a deep sleep so I got up at sunrise and sat on the deck with my morning cuppa whilst being laughed at by the Kookaburras. Today was shaping up to be a sunny but smoky day – smoke was blowing across from the east Melbourne…
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Taking it slow
Estimated Reading Time: < 1 minute We weren’t in a rush today so we slept in until 9:30 am, so nice. We had breakfast on the deck before going for a bit of an explore around Sorrento and Portsea. I really liked these towns; Sorrento is very sophisticated with lots of café’s food stores and boutiques (I heard someone say “this…
Back to the mainland
Estimated Reading Time: < 1 minute We were up and out of our accommodation by 10 am. Guess where we had breakfast? You’ve got it, Jackman & McRoss. I had a wonderful baked polenta which had sweetcorn in it, topped with roasted pumpkin, mushroom, artichoke, pepper, goat cheese and brie – Wow! I had to finish on something sweet so I…
MONA – An art museum like no other
Estimated Reading Time: 3 minutes The forecast was for showers and cooler temperatures today, perfect weather to go to the Museum of Old and New Art (MONA). But first…brunch at Jackman and McRoss. The 10 year wait didn’t disappoint. Sweet or savory was the hardest decision of the day. Savory won out! Full to the brim we boarded the 11…
Mesmerizing Maria Island
Estimated Reading Time: 3 minutes Since the Orford Campsite had a great kitchen we cooked up bacon rolls for breakfast to set us up for our active day ahead. Last night was our last night in a tent for this trip and it was dripping with condensation this morning so it will have to be hung out to dry when…
Drinking in Wineglass Bay
Estimated Reading Time: 2 minutes Breakfast was a pot of tea and granola & yoghurt on the beach. We packed up the tent and headed to the trailhead for the Wineglass Bay Viewpoint Walk. Last time we were here the trailhead had a medium sized dirt parking lot, now it is a multi-tiered tarmac lot complete with overflow areas –…
Swapping beautiful Bruny for fabulous Freycinet
Estimated Reading Time: 2 minutes It was tough to leave Bruny but the drastic change in temperature helped get us underway. We got an early ferry to Kettering, followed by a 3 ½ hour drive to Freycinet National Park. We were lucky enough to get a Campsite at Richardson’s Bay which operates on a lottery system in high summer. As…
Breaking records on Bruny
Estimated Reading Time: 2 minutes It was a hot night so we slept with the windows open and were serenaded by the waves all night. The house has lovely bedlinen, I felt like I was in a luxury hotel and yet the whole house was about AUS$150 per night – bargain! After a hearty bacon roll for breakfast we headed…
A spontaneous trip to Bruny
Estimated Reading Time: 3 minutes Slept like logs and it was nice not to have an early wake up call. After a yummy breakfast overlooking the gorge from our townhouse we packed up the car and began the 3 1/2 hour journey south to Kettering to catch the ferry to Bruny Island. This isn’t the itinerary we had planned, but…
Monotreme dream
Estimated Reading Time: 3 minutes Today we did a self-driving tour of the Tamar Valley. It was a pleasant day but despite all the creative marketing, most of the areas along the route have a ways to go to become really viable attractions. Having said that, we might have a different take on it if we were here in spring…