Today was one of our longest drive days at 184 kms.  Although Google maps might say 2 and a half hours, we knew that it would take a lot longer than that.

We had breakfast in our motel room, loaded up the car and headed west just after 8:00am

I knew that there was not a lot to see but extremely windy, up and down hilly roads.

The first destination was Cradle Mountain.  The road was certainly a lot better than we had encountered in 2005 when we were here last.  There is a lovely new Visitor Centre.

After a look around we drove down the road to the Cradle Mountain Hotel for lunch.

The hotel is tucked into the wilderness and is much larger than I expected. I had planned to have lunch at the “Altitude” restaurant. Their menu had a nice range of little slider burgers.

We chose a Chicken and a Fish slider than then a Pulled Pork and a Beef one and a serve of chips.

After lunch, we asked the reception girls if we could look at a room. We were shown a couple of rooms. they were quite large and we thought we would like to stay here when we move down.

Back on the highway, our next stop was a little “nothing to see” town called Tullah.

Tullah was built to be a workers camp for the damming of rivers to create Lake Rosebery.

I was turning around to get back on the highway, when I saw a little sign that said “Tullah Jetty”. Of course I had to go that way 😀. I little bit off the road was a car park with a walk down to a (strangely enough) jetty.

The jetty is on the side of Lake Rosebery. The lake is now a primary fishing lake stocked with brown and rainbow trout. Although today was a drizzly grey day, we could see that the lake area would be lovely on a fine day.

Further along the highway, we passed through Rosebery which was a tin ming town then on to Zeehan and then finally to our final destination in Strahan.

I had received an email from the Big 4 park where we had booked in for the next 2 nights to say that check in was from 3:00pm.  Well, silly us, turned up at 2:45pm and were tersely told to come back “well after 3:00 – you would have got an email”

So we left 😀

We thought we would find the petrol station and fill up the car, and get some veges for dinner.

As it turned out, the petrol station was right next to IGA. We had the rest of the BBQ chook left, so we just needed potato, carrot, broccoli and some gravy.

We drove around and had a look at Strahan to get some ideas for tomorrow, before heading back to the caravan park just before 4:00pm.  We were allowed to check in and were shown where our cabin was.

We unpacked, cooked our veges and finished off our chicken dinner and settled in for the night.

Tomorrow is a quiet day and we have absolutely nothing planned.