After our
stay at Port Arthur, we headed up the east coast. We chose Bicheno and St
Helens as our spots to stay, although in hindsight I would thoroughly recommend
Binnalong Bay over St Helens.
In Bicheno
we spent some time chilling out and hitting the schoolbooks, hiking up to the
Wineglass bay lookout, checking out the local penguins (some of whom lived
under the cabins where we were staying!), taking a ride in a glass bottomed
boat and playing at the blow hole.
In St
Helens we got to celebrate Dunc’s birthday over multiple days thanks
to a very poorly timed power outage. We heard the bang and saw the flash as a
good-sized branch hit the power lines outside the caravan park. Thankfully we
had enough food in our plastic tub for dinner. We drove all through town in the
hope of finding somewhere open to eat out and celebrate Dunc’s birthday, but absolutely NOTHING was open. So
Dunc got to have a double birthday.
We spent a
couple of days driving around the Northeastern corner of Tassie. We went to
Pyenganna and saw the Pub in the Paddock which has a beer-drinking pig named
Pinky. We spent the rest of the afternoon speaking in p’s just like Mr Popper’s assistant and Dunc was by far the
best (preposterously perfect at pontificating prodigious parses purporting p’s)! We also stopped at the Pyenganna Dairy Farm
and watched the cows milk themselves. It was an amazing process and we were
quite mesmerised watching the automated milking robot at work.
We headed
up as far North as possible, past Binnalong Bay and the gorgeous Bay of Fires
with its stunning orange rocks, to the Eddystone Point Lighthouse. From the
stunning white sand beaches to the rainforest; we went back to Pyenganna and
checked out the St Columbus waterfall that we didn’t know about the day before – whoops! It also gave Dunc the chance to
check out some ciders and micro-brewed beers at the Welsborough Pub.
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