Tuesday 5th December 2017
Last nights camp site was quiet and beautiful. We packed up this morning and headed on our way. It was a comedy of errors today.

First stop Australian Axeman’s Hall of Fame – 1st dud – closed until next year. Moving right along we went to the Spreyton Cider Co for a taste test of cider and the girls taste tested some juices.. Next stop – Barrington Lake where there was an adventure park and also a 2 hour rainforest walk. Unfortunately a miscommunication occurred and Paul and Ali and DB and I ended up on different sides of the lake about 1 hour by road away fro each other – dud no. 2 – in the wrong place and no adventure park or walk could be found. We would have like to go to Devils Gullet which was about a 2 hour drive away with a 50min walk but on a quick search we found out that this walk had been closed since 2015 – dud no. 3. We then went to Leven Canyon Lookout, this was a 45min loop walk to a couple of lookouts to view the gorge This was quite spectacular. Then we enjoyed a quiet drive through the country to Ulverstone where we are camping tonight in the Big 4. Quite a nice campground but you always have to reset yourself to the changed conditions after spending a night in the bush. After a quick setup and dinner we headed to Lillico Beach to watch the penguins come ashore. This was a free activity with a couple of volunteer tour guides to explain about the penguins and help find them with their red lights. Unfortunately we had to wait a long time for them and there weren’t very many and we couldn’t see them ver well. A little bit of a dud but a good experience all the same.

Our tour guide for today was a little disappointed so many things didn’t work out but at least we managed a nice walk and the drive through the countryside was amazing. Oh well only one day to go.