Burnie

The makers workshop makes Burnie well worth a stop. I am not sure what else does. Evidence for this was that this morning there were throngs of cruise ship passengers visiting until 12 when they all caught the bus back to the ship for lunch.
So what did I find beyond the workshop. A great deli on the outskirts called Relish and after seeking advice from our receptionist a really good coffee shop the chapel making one of the best flat whites I have had. The owner explained that the flat white concept was originally misappropriated as some sort of latte with the result now that any mixture of milk and coffee is called a flat white..
Enough of flat whites. There is an ice cream shop that mixes ice cream to order and after Simon’s afternoon banana mix, tonight he had liquorice and strawberry yuk!
Burnie has a lovely beach right in the middle of the town and this is where we have hopes tonight of seeing the fairy penguins waddle up the beach to feed their young.
Like much of Tasmania being in Burnie does feel a bit like going back in time. Many shops seem to be trying to sell the impossible. But plenty of people say they would not want to leave Tasmania for the mainland.
The hotel is the beachfront voyager, purporting to be beachfront up market but in reality more like tired seaside with a view. Linda the receptionist is a local, born in Wynard all of 15 kms from Burnie, married with three children with aspirations to travel well beyond Burnie, Tasmania and Australia. Good luck to her and her family.
We now wait for the penguins to arrive...Read more