Launceston & Around

Pyengana Dairy Farm - cow taking itself off to be milked	That's a very full udder	Queuing to be milked by the milking robots - it is fully automated	After being milked, a little bum rub
Beautiful green valley at Pyengana	Feeding time for the calves	Cheese making process at Pyengana	Step 5 - Heating and Stirring of the Curds
Can you see the curds?	St Columba Falls	Trail through the ferns to the falls	It was a pretty walk
St Columba Falls	St Columba Falls - Tasmania's highest falls at 90m	St Columba Falls	Pub in the Paddock - a beer drinking pig
Here she is - Priscilla II	Weldborough Hotel - 1876	Historic Building	We stop here for the night, as they have beer from every craft brewery in Tasmania
First up an Iron House Honey Porter and a T-bone Chocolate Milk Stout	Next, a Little Rivers Berrylicious and an Iron House London Porter	We move to the beer garden	Tasty beers
Next, an Iron House Red Ella and a Tassie Chardonnay (what, no beer?)	Dinner, more drinks and then sleep!	Purple poppy field	Tasmania produces half of the world's legal poppy crop
Used for painkillers and other medicines	It is strictly controlled and it is illegal to access the fields	Huge trout mural on the rock - entering Derby	Bridestowe Lavender Estate
The largest lavender farm in the southern hemisphere...	...producing lavender oil for the perfume industry	The flowering season is mid-December...	...to late January
Rows and rows of lavender plants	Purple everywhere	Lavender distillery	Pete enjoying a lavender ice cream
Lilydale Falls	Launceston - Cataract Gorge	Cataract Gorge - First Basin	The world's longest single-span chairlift - across the gorge
Lovely outdoor swimming pool and grassy area	Beautiful bushland, cliffs and water	Some prefer to swim in the chilly South Esk River - it was a very hot day	Alexandra Suspension Bridge
We walk the trail to Duck Reach	Lovely scenery along the side of the gorge	Cantilever Bridge over the second basin	Our destination in the distance
Duck Reach Power Station and suspension bridge	Jackie hiking down to the suspension bridge	Floods in 1929 destroyed most of the power station	Power Station Museum
Rock climbing is popular at the gorge	Rock climbers	Pete on the suspension bridge	Back across the gorge
Launceston City Park - Japanese Macaques	A gift from Japanese sister-city Ikeda	Macaque	Look at the baby on mum's back - cute!
Macaque	Tramway Museum	Crocoite - Tasmania's mineral emblem	Queen Victoria Art Gallery
Art by Josh Foley - a local artist	A new take on the queen's portrait	Art by Josh Foley