We threw in some soups for lunch and some nibbles and wound our way around the side of mount Roland and mount round toward the plateau of cradle mountain.
When we arrived it was fairly busy but as we got closer to dove lake the car numbers thinned but walker numbers increased although still way below annoying numbers.
The last boom gate wash flashing amber at the interpretive centre so we had to wait for another vehicle to exit the dove lake car park before we could enter that area so we explored the information inside the kids especially loving any taxidermy of natives around also the 3d model of the park.
By the time we had taken in the centre the gate let us in to our first walk of the day on the dove lake circuit .
It took a little over two hours to do the circuit as we stopped several times to look around do a few goes and munzees have a snack and of course the obligatory happy snaps of this simple lakeside beauty and the surrounding hills of little horn ,Marion's lookout ,wombat pool hansons peak to name a few.
When we got to a rocky downhill Ej took a face down fall but managed to put his arms out by avoiding a face plant he scraped His legs , belly and arms giving him a instant bruise .
we had a few snaps taken by a passing Asian tourist couple ( cliche hey lol).
walk over we headed back to the rainforest walk and pencil pine falls.
Then a quick heat up of some cup a soups which were watched over by a couple of pademelons ,this warmed us up and egged us on to the enchanted forest walk a little further which the kids really enjoyed especially Shahla bear as we told her it where fairies lived as we sprinkled her hair with dainty myrtle leaves she was astounded and I'm sure this stuck in her head as the afternoon was full of angel and fairy talk.
Time to head back to camp and I noticed a little brake grind , obviously time to change the pads very soon.
Back down the windy road past a massive logging truck and the Forth River and another fire with a few stories and curried snags and a cheese platter.
All in bed at a reasonable hour hoping the good weather would hang around another day or so so we could pack up dry and head to Devonport .
No comments:
Post a Comment