We are about to head out to Cradle Mountain National Park for a day of hiking, or drinking coffee and eating home made meat pies, or whatever else we find. Margaret just had home made bread here at the b and b in Wilton, a tiny village just south of "post box row". More on that later.
Yesterday was on our calendar as a driving day and that's what we did. After a hardy breakfast of poached eggs and sausage we bypassed all the wineries we missed the day before and headed up and over and up some more to St. Mary's where we found Purple Possum Wholefoods and Cafe, famous for its rhubarb cake, and now, its gluten free orange almond cake. And great coffee. There's one long hill down then we crossed the Fingal Valley, a mainly agricultural area populated with sheared sheep and milk cows. At the Brickendon Estate farm near Longford we stopped for lunch and a bit of a walk around. Brickendon is one of two World Heritage Convict Sites in the area. Our Wicked Cheese brie nearly ran off the table in the heat (finally) and was great with the Milton Riesling.
We rushed to make it to Trowunna Wildlife Park (here). Since so many of the marsupials here are nocturnal it's nearly impossible to see them, except as roadkill. Until today we'd seen more roos and wallabies, wombats and devils dead on the road than we had alive. But this was a great experience. More later. Off to Cradle Mountain.
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