Day 2 - 17th March
Tuesday. Woke once or twice overnight. Lynn was right to lower the blinds - from the bathroom, one of the fishing boats was blindingly bright, using spotlights to attract fish?
It was another lovely, blue-skied warm day. Woke 7.30 and a leasurely breakfast of (excellent) bacon and eggs. By then we were keen to be out and about.
First we drove to where the Cataraqui wrecked. The turnoff is only a couple of hundred metres south of our lodge, but the rutted track raun south along the coast for quite a way before the plaque to the tragedy. Hard to imagine on a day like today, when it was so calm and the sea so flat.
Then further south the the calcified forest and Seal Rocks. The forest was a pleasant short walk through the scrub, past numerous grey fantails. It was a sandy area with numerous smallish calcified casts of tree roots. Then we drove to Seal Rocks; no seals in view, but a wonderful view south across the low cliffs, and we sat and ate popcorn.
We then drove back to the cabin, where we read, ate lunch (chicken and salad) and finally fell asleep for an hour or more.
When we eventually woke we drove south the Stokes Point, at the far southern end of the island. This involved farm gates and a long track that wound over the hillocks that cover the area, then along the sea edge where the track was alternately sandy and rocky. We walked the final couple of hundred metres ovef a channel that looks to fill at high tide. That took a while and was tiring driving, so we made our leasurely way back again and have been sitting here ever since. We've read, watched the wallabies graze in front of the window and ate salmon and pickled salad for tea.
It was another lovely, blue-skied warm day. Woke 7.30 and a leasurely breakfast of (excellent) bacon and eggs. By then we were keen to be out and about.
First we drove to where the Cataraqui wrecked. The turnoff is only a couple of hundred metres south of our lodge, but the rutted track raun south along the coast for quite a way before the plaque to the tragedy. Hard to imagine on a day like today, when it was so calm and the sea so flat.
Then further south the the calcified forest and Seal Rocks. The forest was a pleasant short walk through the scrub, past numerous grey fantails. It was a sandy area with numerous smallish calcified casts of tree roots. Then we drove to Seal Rocks; no seals in view, but a wonderful view south across the low cliffs, and we sat and ate popcorn.
We then drove back to the cabin, where we read, ate lunch (chicken and salad) and finally fell asleep for an hour or more.
When we eventually woke we drove south the Stokes Point, at the far southern end of the island. This involved farm gates and a long track that wound over the hillocks that cover the area, then along the sea edge where the track was alternately sandy and rocky. We walked the final couple of hundred metres ovef a channel that looks to fill at high tide. That took a while and was tiring driving, so we made our leasurely way back again and have been sitting here ever since. We've read, watched the wallabies graze in front of the window and ate salmon and pickled salad for tea.
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