headed off towards launceston. stopped by lavender farms. beautiful fields of purple.
left my phone and had to detour sigh. major emotional meltdown from me.
checked in at lauceston motel nightcap at launceston. very pleasant. ashwin helped choose this according to our budget.
gave us a welcome drink. then we walked over to jungles Indian restaurant. had an amazing dinner kids made friends with a couple nearby from Melbourne who enthused them properly for cradle mountain and cataract gorge.
day 7: headed to cradle mountain.
stayed at discovery Park cabin. amazing. had a welcome by a wombat as soon as we entered. ashwin got super close and fab pics. aishued named her wombi. fairly sure she was carrying a baby too! wombi junior or cutie.
went for the enchanted walk got awesome photos. saw an pademellon
like a wallaby but smaller more mouse like face.
ashwin and I made pasta dinner yummy. ashwin has the touch!
then watched a family movie about a school pet lizard that can talk and fixes the 5th graders lives in his last year . I slept intermittently.
Day 8: woke early coz I was freezing. 4 degrees outside. walked a bit came back to layer up walked some more. then drove out to do the rainforest walk.
got ashwin we both walked too, he got so cold he dashed to the discovery centre ans had a hot chocolate for the first time. his first hot drink ever.
finally by 12 we set off, took the bus saw cradle mountain by dove lake. amazing. then stopped by devil's at cradle saw baby devils. amazing story..20 years ago whole country was depressed that 80% of them had died in a matter of 8 years due to face cancer. now there is a vaccine, a recovery programme etc. very inspiring. saro was mesmerised by some skull crunching the devils were doing. we also learnt more about quolls. spotted tails and Eastern ones. very interesting.
then we had late lunch at peppers Lodge. Good one. then headed back to waterfall walk and rewarded with sighting of pademelon and baby pademelon! then the best part of the whole trip so far. a self drive to Ronnie creek! should be called wombat world according to aswhin and he is right. they graze the hills like sheep! one came so close to us we felt so blessed. like we were in a documentary. heard it crunch the grass! it pooped right by us, caught on camera. we could have reached out and touched it if we wanted. it didn't care that we were there. am so happy for that means they have no predators or obvious threats. just mind their own business munching munching. we named this guy gundu kathirikai. other wombat names from the previous day are huppy - hungry and happy fellow l and chubs. we absolutely adore them lah
then back down to cradle mountain for evening views got the reflection photo wow wow wow.
then back up to our cabin and ashwin and saro whipped up friend rice for us just amazing.
day 8. I woke up earlier than the rest and had the most amazing walk down to pencil pine falls and kynvyt falls. magical, a moment I cherish. wanted to so much to bring the rest but couldn't.
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