Hobart in June – Winter – Day 4 – Tuesday

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Day 4 – Tuesday

We’re up early because there’s an informal breakfast put on by the resort at 9, with waffles, ice cream, and berries.

It also meant that we would be able to embark on an adventure a lot earlier than we had previously, somewhere about 10:30.

Breakfast ends at about 10, and we take a few minutes to decide what we’re going to do.  The best option is to go to Port Arthur, nearly 100km away, about an hour and a half drive.

The weather is great considering so far we’ve had rain and more rain, insidious cold, and snow, so for the day to be sunny with blue skies is as if the planets have lined up.

Nearly 100 km driving in the rain to visit a penal colony in the rain was not a good prospect.

Along the way, there are several scenic points and intermittent views of the water, which in places give views out to sea, but it seems mostly over estuaries because the water is quite calm.

Only as we approach Port Arthur do we get to see the ocean stretch out to the horizon, and there are lookout points over rocks that display the end result of the ocean’s fury with land.

There are several viewing points for landmarks such as the Blowhole. These we will stop at on the way back

Along with a lavender factory and cafe.

Not far from that lavender factory is a Tasmanian Devil union, which seems to be an odd name for scything, but we don’t stop to see exactly what it is

Just at noon, we arrive at the Port Arthur site to be greeted by two overflow carparks, then a three-tiered carpark.  We try for the first, and closest, and get a park, more by good luck than anything else.

Good luck getting into the settlement other than through the edifice built across the whole front.  This is how you make people feel secure.  Not even an ant could get past it.

There us a restaurant, a Cafe, a gift shop, and an entrance.  The cost is $45 for an adult, $20 for children, and $36 for us.

And from what I can see, if the settlement and the activities included in the admission price, we could not do any of it, so coming was not exactly a waste of time; we had to come to at least see it.

Maybe when Rosemary can walk again.

We spend time in the gift shop, I get a book that has photos of what we’re missing, sad, then we head back.

Lunch at a seafood restaurant beckons.

On the way back, we visit the Lavender farm and, of course, pick up a few lavender items.

Hotel Dunally Seafood Restaurant, or so the sign outside says.

We saw this place on the way to Poet Arthur, and if time allowed, we would check it out for lunch.

About 1 30 pm, we go in.

Sadly, the locally caught Flounder is unavailable; no one has been able to go out and get it, so there is no fresh fish at all, not even the flathead.

Asked about the flathead, but it’s frozen seafood out of a bag and fried.  For a seafood restaurant, it’s very disappointing that it lacks fresh seafood.

We opt for the seafood bake, with chips and salad.  It’s not going to be fresh seafood, but maybe the closest thing to it, with prawns, scallops, and calamari, as well as fish pieces.

We then decided to go back to Daci and Daci again, for another cake.

And got a look at some of the other cakes