We left home last Monday in the caravan and after saying “go left or right?”, headed up the east coast stopping the first three nights on the beach at Chain of Lagoons just north of Bicheno. It is a beautiful area….the area where we fell in love with Tassie first. The green paddocks meet the ocean. We lit the campfire every night…. and yes we were warm. The beaches are full of shells, in areas at least 30cm deep. Rosie and Creed, I collected some to add to your collection near the swings, back at our bush block. Your shells are still spread out how you left them, although the possums do mess them up occasionally.

The next spot we camped was on the beach at the Bay of Fires east of St Helens. Incredibly clear blue water and very white sand. Today we visited the Pyengana Dairy Company who have been producing English-style cheddar cheese in the Pyengana Valley for three generations and over one-hundred years. We now have a frig of delicious cheeses including some more of the cheese you and Dennis bought us Di !! After that we headed to the Pub in the Paddock for lunch…. very average lunch but a beautiful valley.

 

 

 

 

 

 

In our last post, we mentioned our visit to the Cadbury Factory in Hobart. I now understand why Mal had such an attachment to the chocolates. There was a large photo of a man by the surname of Fry in the Gallery and I mentioned to Mal that maybe he was a relative of his (his Mum is a Fry). We forgot all about it then, until we were chatting to Mal’s Mum yesterday about Cadburys, and she mentioned that Mal’s Grandfather’s cousin started Fry’s Chocolates in Tassie which was later bought by Cadburys. Small world. Now Mal wants to revisit the factory as a descendant of the original owner….. any excuse.