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 |