Launceston....22nd March.

When we woke up today  we thought we were going to get one like yesterday but no the sun didn't come out at all . We had a walking day covering 11.8kms, a break from all the big driving days. Took off at 8.30am to do the walk of the city. A very quiet city after all the traffic we get at home at that time of the morning. After our town walk, we came back to the townhouse with 20 cooked prawns for lunch. Beautiful. Forgot to take a photo. We then took off again on foot to walk through th Cataract Gorge. Disappointed with the gloomy day as the colour in the gorge wasn't  going to come out as well without the sun and blue sky. But it was still an interesting walk. 

We actually have a wireless in the place. PT is in his element what with seeing an old bowser pump a few days ago as well.

Walked along the waterfront downtown of Launceston. They have made these board walks around the harbour front. We were wondering  where these boats would go to as the town is up River  nearly 50Km.

 

GPO

Town hall.

Mall

We now start the Cataract Gorge walk. Walking over the old bridge.

These are the walkways that have been built along the river bank. Looking back at the bridge, on the other side of the river the walkways go up a lot higher. The work that has gone into making these walkways is incredible.

Continuing on



Notice the big boulders. Massive.



This one shows you how big the boulders are along these walkways.

Looking down where the river narrows and looses its depth. No boats can come past this point.

Then it changes to this.

This is as far as we are going to walk, looking over to the footbridge which crosses the river at the point where they have made a very nice reserve area.

A close up showing the the reserve area where we will drive to after we walk back to our townhouse.

On our walk back PT tickling the dogs nose if you can use your imagination.

Nearly back to the old car bridge.

We went and got our car after spending the day mainly walking. And drove over the hill to the Cataract Reserve which I must say has been done very well. A nice place to be.

Now we get a closer look at the foot bridge you saw in the distance from our walk.

Same spot as above.

The above photo was taken from this small bridge which crosses over the river  further up from where we walked to. Amazing how narrow it goes at this point.

Standing on the bridge looking down over the small waterfall.

As the entrance above is such a narrow entrance it forms a lake area.

We came across this area called Penny Royal a bit of a fun area next to the old Cataract Gorge Bridge. The wire walkway up on the cliff is the start of the walk on the other side of the Gorge that we walked up. To steep for us.

 

The waterfall going down into the pond. A nice little area.

 Another look at this area.

The windmill...



We are now having our last night at Two Up On York which we have enjoyed very much. A lovely place to come home to after exploring the area each day. Above to show you we even had a great gas fire, as the evenings are a lot colder than home.

Tomorrow we leave to cross over to the East coast through St Helens then continuing down the Coa st to Swansea for two nights. Then we will have just about done the circuit of Tasmania. When we leave Swansea on Sunday to fly home we will have completed Hobart to Hobart. But after tonight we still have two nights at Swansea.