It was hard to believe it was the same town we remembered from twenty years ago for there was so much green covered hills around the area although mostly low shrubbery even the town was nice and green and looked much brighter than I remember .
We rang arou d to do some mining tours but the underground one we wanted to do was only available to kids over 14 so we gave it a miss and the other tour was booked out .
We had a look at the miners sculpture tribute and the nearby museum gallery for town info and walked over to the wilderness railway station the train was out and too dear for us anyway but due to federal budget cuts the station may be closing so we took advantage of the 50% off mist store items such as a fluffy toy for the kids and book for Ej and dash .
We toasted some sangas up in the park in the middle of town which the kids soaked up enthusiastically and all enjoyed a cold drink on this hot day.
A quick look at the geocache app on the iPad and we were off to find several geocache s nearby at some scenic locations which helped understand the area and its past to the kids.
On the way to queenstown we caught up with some people riding around tassie on a tandem bike they seemed to be doing it well and we would see them several more times while we were on the isle.
On the way back we detoured to Strahan to hire some toboggans and sand boards to ride down the Hentie sand dunes just out of town .
Still warm we has a great time here for several hours once we eventually found the correct consistency of sand to board on Shahla and Ej did exceptionally well and shahla's coordination astounded us .
Getting on past tea time we headed into the Regatta Point Tavern near the Strahan Wilderness Railway no luck on the keno here for me so I paid the hard earned for a yummy filling tea.
Home to bed yet another massive day I don't know how we keep backing it up.
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