Blogs from Cradle Mountain - Lake St Clair National Park, Tasmania, Australia, Oceania

After our long day's hike yesterday, we decided to take it a bit easier today. Also the weather was pretty bad, so we didn't want to do too much in the rain. We slept til a little later and then made ourselves some breakfast burritos to set us up for the day. I hadn't had a breakfast burrito in ages. We used to eat them quite often on hiking trips in Korea, so it was good to reminisce. We headed to the visitor centre and took the shuttle bus to the Interpretation centre. From there, we walked to Knyvet Falls. The waterfall was really pretty. In fact, the whole area is just stunning. It's just so green and because of the rain, it looked very lush. We had decided to to the Dove Canyon circuit. The ... read more

We woke early, as today was our last day full day in beautiful cradle mountain, it was raining and the weather report said it was going to rain all day, but we were not deterred, not when there are Wombats to see. We drove down to the main lodge as we wanted out breakfast, and sat in a window seat and watched the weather roll in. The open fire was crackling away, and as we looked out we commented that there seemed to be a lack of wildlife, no pademelons, no Wombats, so when it snows they come out to forage, but when it rains they seem to stay inside. I have been reading a book called the “Secret life of Wombats” written about a 15 year old school boy who went to a privileged school ... read more

Morning All, The last blog had a title called” Freezing the Balls off a Brass monkey”, which was rudely interrupted when we I had to go to bed as we were just so tired and the blog was sort of cut short because of this. The Blog Title was not intended to be rude, but describe how cold it was in Tasmania, ah Beautiful Tasmania, I type this addition or completion to our blog original blog at 06.00 on Saturday 29th August, Caroline is sleeping in bed and I am just about to get ready for a 07.30 HF radio broadcast (Sked) Back to why we are here, I said that I would explain where this Colloquialism of “Freezing the Balls off a Brass Monkey” came from, I had something in the back of my mind, ... read more

I think Andy wants to call this blog "you get less for Murder" It still looks like we are going nowhere today, the snow is still pretty thick on the ground, the roads don't seem to get cleared it all happens naturally. It is still amazingly pretty from our cabin window, a huge slab of snow is overhanging the roof onto the balcony, the icicles are dangerously posed to kill with one wrong move. No early start to today, we just eased into the morning, I made a cup of tea, apparently the one day in the year that I should make the morning tea, perhaps I should mention now that today's date is the very reason that we are here on Cradle Mountain, 25 years ago today, Andy and I got married in Romsey Abbey, ... read more

It's been a while - a very long while! - since I posted any photographs of our "new" home. I say "new", in quotation marks, because in a few short weeks we'll be celebrating the second anniversary of our arrival here, a day we've officially baptised "Tasmania Day". Boy, has time flown. The speed with which we've settled down here has, I think, taken both of us by surprise. We both found work in our chosen fields within weeks, and permanent full-time jobs within months. Somewhat more challenging was finding a roof to put over our heads. Or at least, the right roof. For two rather fussy people like ourselves, I suppose this shouldn't have come as too much of a surprise. And then in September last year, the stars and planets aligned for us and ... read more