Catch up with Roger

 Roger came to Sydney for a few days and it was lovely to catch up.  We went to a great Thai place for dinner, finished off with Messina Ice-cream, the best ice-cream in all of Sydney.

Roger and Jocelyn visit from Melbourne

 

 

Living in the time of Corona

Launceston

We explored the Cataract Gorge on the "inclinator" and then admired their resident peacocks.  

Roger and Jocelyn stayed on in Launceston as they needed to get the ferry back to Melbourne the next day.  Russell and I hired a car and drove to Mount Fields as we had two days left to explore.

If you look carefully, you can see the little Joey.

Near Cradle Mountain

Tasmania experienced its biggest snow fall of the year just before we went.  Unfortunately this meant that Cradle Mountain and Dove Lake were inaccessible but this didn't stop us from having lots of playful fun in the snow.  

A cute wombat foraging in the snow

Waterfall Walk

The lodge where we stayed had two awesome walks in the surrounding mountains with some beautiful waterfalls.  It was wonderful to get out into the mountains again with Russell.

Stanley

Stanley was a lovely, sleepy town on the northern coast of Tasmania. We stayed in a cosey place close to the water.  Thankfully they had a powerful heater as the weather was extremely brisk!  We all went for an invigorating walk on the hill overlooking the town and enjoyed some great views.

The sea side town of Stanley

Climbing the local hill

Overlooking the town the next morning

The newly weds !

On the road in Tasmania

Paper museum

Breakfast

One of the nicest meals we had: an omelette to beat all omelettes.

Beautiful Tassie

A spontaneous dunk in the ocean

Brrrrr, it was freezing !!!  Roger dived in too, brave soul.  Russell was about to when the frigid wind came up, and he promptly changed his mind !

Lovely fudge

So many novel flavours to try.  The coffee was good too.

Tassie cows

Roger's raucous bachelor's party

It started with some extreme ironing !!

Then onto some intense bow tying ...

... and raucous shoe polishing.

Then we downed glasses of water ...

... before moving onto the hard stuff.   Mocha !!!