Bruny Island

Woke to rain! So glad we had good weather for our walk - would have been tough on slippery ground. Tried another tiny breakfast venue this morning - Hobart has amazing food.  Bruny Island for the day. 

The car ferry goes every half hour from Kettering. We were the first car to drive on our ferry so we had a good view for the short passage to this surprisingly large island.

Bruny is famous for food and produce with cheeses, wine, oysters, chocolates, cider and honey drawing crowds. There's also great bushwalking and wildlife including penguin rookeries. 

We stopped for lunch at an artisan cheese shop where we shared a Ploughman Platter with Raspberry Chilli beer! 

Drove on in heavy rain to the far end of the Southern island intending to walk up to the Bruny lighthouse however gave it a miss - rain torrential. The lighthouse was the third to be built in Tas in 1838 after 2 terrible shipwrecks on this rocky coastline. It stands high on the cliff top but has been replaced with a smaller automated structure . The former lighthouse keeper's cottage has a great little museum - vollies look after the care of the lighthouse. 

Took Alastair to the plane - I'm sorry to see him go. Tomorrow I start new adventures - on my own!