Our first day started with a portion of the Tarkine Trail. We decided to do it in two stages with today focusing on the eastern portion or the forest part of the trail. This started with Trowutta Arch. Milkshake hills was a bit boring but the rest was interesting. We stopped at rocky Cape national Park on the way back to the accommodation and first saw the lighthouse and then the Northwest cave. It was a long day of driving but some interesting sights.Read more
Today was exploring the western portion of the Tarkine Trail which was all coastal. Absolutely stunning coastal vistas and bright blue water. On the way back we stopped off in Stanley and saw the nut and had a delicious Persian live cake and lemon cheesecake. We also stopped off and tried a scallop pie and a crayfish pie (which was not cheap) to bring back to the accommodation (they were both delicious). Buildings in stanley were so cute and full of character.Read more
We left Sisters Beach today and made our way across to Campbell Town on our way to Hobart. On the way we stopped off at the Arboretum run by volunteers which was lovely to walk around in. Our accommodation for the night was Solomon's Cottage in campbell town. It was a lovely stay with an even lovelier garden out the back with lots of fresh produce. The host was more than happy to show us around and allowed us to try lots of produce.Read more
Leaving Campbell Town we made our way to the east coast to make our way towards Hobart. We did this specifically to visit Kate's Berry farm where we had their humble Berry pie and bought some chocolate coated berries and nuts. Our accommodation in Hobart was a refurbished barn behind the house which I have wanted to stay at previously. Such a beautiful space. Our dinner that night - Don Camillo. Delicious as usual.Read more
Today was the when Kirk needed to attend a funeral. I dropped him at the airport and stopped off at Richmond for some brekky before heading back to the accommodation. I ordered some lovely Berry waffles and a coffee at czegs and just sat and contemplated and read the news a day played with my phone. Before I knew it, the shops were starting to open so I walked by for some retail therapy. On the way back from Richmond I stopped at the botanical Gardens and had a short walk through there. I was tired at this point so went back and had a nap before I needed to walk down to black footed pig for dinner with Penny. It was a bit of a disappointing dinner to be honest but was great to catch up!Read more
We had a lazy day today. Decided to head south towards Huonville and visited Willie Smith's Apple shed to try their toasted sanger. We had that and their apple pie. The sanger was absolutely amazing but their apple pie still wasn't as good as what we had in Stanthorpe. After that we went back to the accomodation and walked down to Battery Point in the afternoon to kill some time before having yet another dinner at Don Camillo. It was a lovely easy going day especially walking via Kelly's steps past all the lovely old houses back to Sandy bay and another delicious dinner of gnocchi with lamb ragu, steak that was cooked beautifully and the best pannacotta I've ever had.Read more
On our last full day we decided to go and explore the sights on the way to Port Arthur. There are lots of little walks that you can turn off and do on the way down and we did a lot of them. We went and saw Tesselated beach, Tasman Arch and Devil's kitchen. One of the best decisions we made was to do the one hour walk to Waterfall Bay which had some lovely views along the cliff. It was definitely 30 minutes there and back and hardly anyone on the track at all. Definitely a must do when seeing the Tasman Arch. Port Arthur itself cost $45 entry and I wasn't fussed to be honest as Kirk had already been. I was more interested in the natural scenery and I was very happy with what we had seen. Remarkable cave was after Port Arthur before we turned around and started our trip back to Hobart.Read more
On our way back we stopped at Port Arthur Lavendar Farm and had their Cheesecake. It looked magnificent but was a tad disappointing. I'm not a fan of lavender in food so it all tasted a bit like I was eating soap. It was in lovely grounds though and we enjoyed browsing through their gift shop! Of course for our last night we had to finish up at our favourite restaurant where we were given the best table and Kirk even got a free glass of wine. This time we had the prawn brushcetta, the sausage special (which Kirk had remembered from the first time we found the restaurant) and the vegetarian pasta finished off with the sticky fig pudding with butterscotch sauce (not pictured) - all absolutely delicious as per usual.Read more