Tiki tour day 4 super photo heavy

Today we left Forbes and travelled along the Lachlan Way beside the river, viewing sculptures on the way

We travelled with the lovely ladies from the US

spider we found

Tourists 😀 Raewyn, Deana, Lori, Evelyn aka Mama Bird and Phyliss

This was called Road Kill

Raewyn and Deana chatting

Phyliss, Evelyn, Me, Raewyn and Lori.

Watertower

the man on the top

A nearby bridge

Looking down the river

Brumbies

Lovely ladies

We stopped next at the Ute's in the Paddock at Condobolin

Had lunch in a local park

oops

I thought I had the timer on 😄

Now I have!!

We stayed at Narromine so watched the sun go down

Dinner was wonderful. 

All done now

Happy stitching. 

Busselton Jetty

We had a visit to Busselton Jetty , it rained on and off and was super windy, I walked out, 1.8km and got the train back with David.

Our along the Jetty

I was shown a seal just floating about under the Jetty, there is an underwater observatory under the end of the Jetty but it was closed because of the weather.

Whales pained on the Jetty, three kinds that can be seen from here, no luck for me today

And great seats

The sign at the end

It was super windy

Rain shower

Rainbow 

There are many sculptures under the end of the Jetty to help the undersea life return, lots were killed when the Jetty was replaced. Apparently it is a great place to dive.

back for another look at the seal

And the train came to the Jetty end ,time to head back and get a hot drink. Oops the photos have switched!

Happy stitching. 

last day in Tassie

We stayed our last night in the Tamar Valley in a really nice hotel, our cabin booking at Swansea was mucked up and we had to leave quickly. Nearly every bit of accommodation in Launceston was booked, so we were lucky to get this room. They also had a great restaurant and we had dinner there. The football started Thursday evening 🙄 so I got a lot of stitching done.

the view from our room

sloe gin for me, special treat! 

Friday we headed off to visit a penpal in Longford,  we had a great cuppa and catch up before Kath had to go back to work.

We did an Adventure Lab in Longford based on the historic buildings

horse trough, fancy isn't it?

lots of amazing historic buildings all beautifully looked after.

From there we went to Deloraine for another Adventure Lab, this one was along the river, where sculptures were placed. There were also little animal sculptures around the park.

How cute is that?

not a sculpture  there were several of these by the side of the rivet

this gave me a 😃 

one question  here was if a man has a glass of milk with a shot of rum in it, what is he doing? The answer was on the metal strip, he was going out to look for cattle strays. The things I learn!!!

We got to Devonport very very early, we thought the ferry left at 7.30 but the proper time was 9.30. 

All along the foreshore at Devonport are geocaches, placed for people who have time to fill while waiting for the ferry. David has a sleep in theear and I wandered off. It was very windy, I found the first cache but had no luck with next three.   David came and found me two hours later, just before the battery on my phone died. I left the charging cable behind at the hotel. Not the best!

Launceston beach front.

We sat in the car  waiting to get onto the ferry for the best part of 4 hours, lots of stitching happened on tea and toast. The ferry was running late,  we finally left about 10pm, we pretty much went to bed in our cabin. 

We got into Geelong about 8.30 this morning and we're home by 10am. We are a bit tired today but had a great time.

Off to my bed soon

happy stitching.