Day 3 - 18th March

We woke up slowly before a luxurious breakfast, made by Lynn from the provisions left for us. Then we had some time as Lynn ahd calculated we needed to leave a bit after 10 to be at our stop by 11am. It was very grey and starting to rain when we set out, but this turned out to be the worst weather of the day and after that there was no rain and only a moderate wind.

The first stop was the whale tail house (as featured on the Australian Grand Designs program), built on a grassed over sand dune just back from the coast at Yellow Rocks. We were met by Andrew and Di, who gave us a tour of the house and their art collection before we had lunch - soup and salad, sent ahead from Kittawa Lodge.

We were there until nearly 2pm when we drove north to Egg Lagoon, where Ana showed us around their cattle farm on the 'Meat your Beef' farm tour. We saw different pastures, mature cattle and bulls and the calves being weaned.


Finally, we drove up to Cape Wickham lighthouse on the northern end of the island. On the way back we stopped at the cheese shop, but didn't by anything (apart from pickled walnuts) as Lynn wasn't confident of getting the soft cheeses home.


By the time we got back to our cabin it had been decorated and a bath run. So we had a bath, drank champagne and lazed around until dinner at 6.30 or so. This was brought to our cabin one course at a time (salmon carpaccio, gnocci, beed and pavlova) which was a very relaxed way to eat as we could sit around between courses. This was all very exhausting and we didn't stay up much later than the end of the meal (which is why I'm writing this on Thursday morning).


Location: 1272 South Rd, Pearshape TAS 7256, Australia

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