Whew! It’s pretty hot over here. Well, to us. It’s probably only 29 degrees or so, but after weeks of cool weather it feels boiling. This morning we drove to Launceston, stopping on the way to do a quick walk to a lookout; Brady’s Lookout. The lookout overlooked a beautiful river with charming little houses on the banks. At Launceston, our first stop was the Harvest Market where we purchased various fruit and vegetables, including some delicious apricots, as well as some bacon and chorizo. Gabby and I also ate a yummy popsicle each; one flavoured rhubarb and cream, the other flavoured raspberry sorbet. After dumping the produce at the bus, and eating an apricot each; accompanied by a glass of goats milk or ice coffee (the morning tea of champions), we started our walk around Launceston. Some memorable spots were the monkey park, a solo trombonist and various heritage buildings. The city park, also known as monkey park by Gabby and me, housed beautiful exotic animals including Japanese Snow Monkeys and a solo trombonist (hee hee). The Japanese Snow Monkeys were adorable; there were several little babies playing and one little wussy monkey clutching to his Mum. The trombonist was awesome; he played along to a karaoke machine playing various songs including: Live While We’re Young by One Direction (eww), Some Nights by Fun, Skyfall by Adele and Knew You Were Trouble by Taylor Swift. He was very good. The heritage buildings were also fabulous. One of my favourites was an Indian restaurant that had taken advantage of the brickwork and placed black silhouettes of Indian buildings on the brickwork. After lunch we headed to Cataract Gorge. Cataract Gorge was awesome! It housed a free swimming pool, a chairlift, peacocks, various walks, a suspension bridge (which I was unfortunately unable to swing, safety regulations and all that) and several dozen idiots who decided to jump off tall rocks into the murky water. Gabby and I swam in the blue waters of the pool, not the murky waters of the river inside the gorge. The water was FREEZING, but it was warm outside and we managed a couple laps before drying ourselves in the sunshine. On the way to the swimming pool we passed through the gorge - ous (ha ha ha) gardens and peacocks. We left the gorge via a steep track and a lookout. We shall return to the gorge on Monday to do some of the other walks. After a short detour to a gallery and gift shop, the gallery housed lovely photographs of different Tasmanian Tarcine forests, we walked back to the bus and drove to the caravan park in which we are now situated.
Hope you are all surviving the hot weather, Maddy.
Fauna: Peacocks, monkeys (duh), a bug in my lettuce (eurgh), possum (up in a tree with dogs underneath it at the Harvest Markets) and a pademelon (or other such animal; Gabby and I can’t decide).
Vehicles Overtaken: 1(Yes!!!)
Wicked Vans: 0
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