After a comfortable nights sleep, we woke and made breakfast before getting ready to go exploring.

All was well until, I was getting ready to have a shower and turned on the “tastic” heat light in the bathroom.  The power tripped 🙁

We needed to call the owner, Glen,  and find out where the switch box was.  He asked us to try it again, and sure enough it tripped again :(.   Glen said it sometimes done this if there is a bit of lint in the fan, and he would fix it later in the morning when he got home.   No huge drama, I had my shower without the heat function on.  It was not that cold 🙂

Watching “Sunrise” while having breakfast, the news mentioned that the Sydney to Hobart yachts had a rough night and were now off Bicheno!!

When we left the unit heading into Bicheno, we got a good view over the ocean and sure enough there were yachts in the distance.

I had a look at the yacht tracker online from my phone and could see that we were looking at the leading boats.

To see the yachts, we had stopped in the car park of a restaurant/cafe.  It looked like it had a good view, so we thought we would have a cup of tea.

It was very nice and enjoyable in the sun.  We heard people saying that it is quite rare to have the yachts in so close to the shore.

We continued into the township and had a walk looking around at the shops.  Bicheno is known for its penguins and they are celebrated in many ways, including a  festive flock in the council park in the centre of town 🙂

Behind the “festive flock” is a builiding that houses public toilets and has lookout over the bay. This is the view from the top.

Driving around the Espanade, we came across the Blowhole.  It was not very windy today, and I did not expect the blowhole to be blowing very much, but is was!  It much really get high in wild weather.

Back into town and we decided on pies at the bakery for lunch.  We also bought a cheese and bacon pull apart loaf to have later.

Listening to the news later in the evening, I was suprised to hear the yachts we had seen at 10:00am had not reached Hobart until just before 7:00pm.  It is only 180 kilometers from Bicheno to Hobart by car and certainly not 9 hours!!!