During the night the temperature dropped from 35 to 19 degrees and with it came a solid downpour. So we packed up with rain and left the caravan park. It was a nice spot and perhaps if the weather would have stayed nice for another day, we would have too.
Instead we decide to continue the tour of the island which didn’t take long. We also stopped at a local chocolate factory which turned out more to be a fudge selling place with a nice garden. They make 600 to 1,000 kg of fudge a week and sell most of it to shops on the mainland. It was not very interesting.
We drove on to a smokery where they smoked anything seafood. We got smoked salmon pate and a picture of a nice wood sculpture.
That was our last stop for the ferry back from Bruny Island to Tasmania proper. On the way back we were enclosed by trucks.
Back on the other side we decided to finish off the last bit south of Hobart that we missed the day before when we took our shortcut.
Without realising it we took another shortcut back and came past an interesting old winery with a name not that dissimilar from where my sister is skiing this week. She’s in Germany though.
They kept the old workers cottages in shape and it was nice to see how small the pickers had to be to fit in the tiny beds. Perhaps it was child labour?
Meanwhile the weather was still not very nice.
Then we saw that the local council organised a fence sitting competition and people got quite creative.
We arrived at Snug as suggested by the Dutch couple and were surprised to see them pull up behind us. They decided that the rain on Bruny wasn’t great and instead of staying another night there, they decided to also go back to Snug. We parked the bus with a nice view and had a look around.
We had a nice drink and chat with Michiel and Belinda. When it turned too cold they left to make dinner. We had dinner inside and watched a tv series.
A nice day.
Posted from Snug, Tasmania, Australia.
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