Monday, February 17, 2014

Bicheno and the East Coast

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 Duncs 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 Duncs 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 ps just like Mr Poppers assistant and Dunc was by far the best (preposterously perfect at pontificating prodigious parses purporting ps)! 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 didnt 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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