Wilsonwalkabout: Happy Easter!

Hello Once again!

I hope you all had a wonderful Easter, as we remembered the sacrifice of our blameless Lord so that we could be saved! We enjoyed reflecting and celebrating this with the Thompsons!

So now I will try to provide a few more details about what we have been doing!

DEVONPORT (March 17-20): We spent most of our time in Devonport relaxing/recovering, doing housekeeping type things, like buying Sara some new shoes (she had grown out of the ones we took with us) and some other things like that, and researching our what to do at the information place. On the Sunday we attended a nice Church of Christ, and we also took in a lovely drive of the general area!

MOLE CREEK (March 20-23): WE used this lovely spot as a base to do a few day tours of things in the area. At Cradle Mountain we did the Dove Lake walk which was so diverse and beautiful and of course took in the lovely views of the mount.
We also checked out the Marakoopa caves, which were fantastic! But this excursion also turned out to be a major highlight as we were able to witness a platypus playing in the creek nearby in the middle of the day! It was so special to see this in the wild!
We also did a walk at Alum Cliffs (very pretty), visited a Honey farm, Cheese Factory and Raspberry farm (All VERY yummy!). Sara loved the cheese so much that she has even learned to say the word!
We also noted that in this area they appear to have major problems with European wasps - they are EVERYWHERE, particularly seeming to be attracted to the bugs on the grill at the front of the car when we park, but have not really bothered us!

Sara and her stitches

WESTBURRY (March 23-27): David and her would go to pet and feed them grass. From here we took a gorgeous Here we stayed at 'Andy's Bakehouse Cafe' a neat place which only cost $2 a night, although the facilities were very basic. The cafe was open 24hrs and served the BEST ice cream ever! Sara loved the horses (or Naaaayyyyyss!') that lived in the paddock behind where we were set up, and every morning David and here would walk around to pet and feed them grass.
One day trip from here, was a scenic drive up the Tamar River's Western side and had a delicious and very generous meal at Beauty Point. (NB. this is near Beaconsfield).
We also went to Burnie and met up with David's Nana (who was stopping there for the day on the cruise ship she was travelling on) which was a really great day! It was so lovely to catch up with her and we had a lovely lunch together! On the way home we stopped to see the beautiful murals that adorn the town of Shefield.
We also had a very sad day when visiting Liffey Falls, as Sara slipped and cut her lip badly requiring 2 stitches! She was very brave and you will be happy to hear that it has healed up beautifully!

LAUNCESTON (March 27-31): Here we had a lovely time in City Park (they have a monkey enclousure in the park - so cool!) and shopping in town, and Dave took in the Boag's brewery. We spent a nice day exploring the Tamar Valley further, including a Strawberry Farm, Batman's Bridge, Platypus House and Seahorse World. All of these were great! and some time just relaxing at camp was great too, after we worked out that it was NOT Good Friday yet. The Hot Cross Buns were yummy anyway!

A lovely veiw from George Town (in the Tamar Valley)

ST. HELENS (March 31-April 5): We stayed in a recreation park called Moulten Bay. We attended the combined service for Palm Sunday of all the local churches on the foreshore. This was very nice. In St. Helen's we particularly enjoyed campfires (thanks Mum and Dad for the jaffal irons!) and a meal shared with our neighbours on one evening. We mainly relaxed and took it easy here although we did go up to the Bay of Fires on one day and also went fossiking a Moorina (we may even have found some very tiny sapphires!), took in a couple of Rain forest walks and another Cheese Factory. On our way to Hobart we had the most amazing pancakes at Elephant Pass!