We woke to the most beautiful clear sunny day – best we’ve had since we started on this two week tour of Victoria and Tasmania. The view from Wrest Point Hotel room window was spectacular.

From our Hotel Window

To top it all we found a perfect sea-front restaurant – The Beach House – to have breakfast. Sitting at a patio table in the gentle sunshine and taking in the vista was pure joy. We wondered what the poor people in the rest of the world were doing.

Our journey to Swansea was equally pleasant. We took a slow drive arriving at Swansea Cottages at 2 o’clock. On the way we passed through beautiful green valleys and were surrounded by mountains, rivers, lagoons and lakes.

Earl identified with this!

Seen on our drive

A place we stopped to stare at

Everyone decorates their homes for Christmas but this was special

After checking into our pleasant rustic cottage that has everything we need we went off to the local grocery store and were amused to find that even the parking area had a view of the sea!

Car Park with a View

The weather has clouded over a bit this evening but we will be having our first Australian Barbie – on a gas barbecue if you don’t mind! We laughed out loud when we saw a barbeque back of meat in the supermarket – it consisted of a tiny piece of funny looking beef sausage, something indescribable and a much-beaten, very thin piece of ‘minute’ steak. Earl got the krills just looking at it! No – we did not buy it!
I have to connect to the internet at reception today – Robyn our hostess is kindly allowing me free access – so I will only post the results of our Barbie tomorrow.

I am now running out of time and battery!  Sorry about the poor quality of todays post  – haven’t had time to really sort and post the best pictures,