Tasmania trip - Part 2

A continuation from previous posts:

Day 3 - Woke up early today for the Bruny Island Adventure Cruise. We drive down to Kettering to meet up with the tour group. We had to take the ferry across to Bruny Island, this is the ferry which carries you together with your cars across. :) Some rental cars' companies might not allow you to take the rental car along on this ferry or go on unpaved roads. so you can check it out first before proceeding.
For those who are interested, do book this cruise online before hand, as they are most of the time fully booked.

Through this cruise, we're brought to some of the beautiful, unspoilt coastline of Tasmania. I am not sure if we're allowed to cruise to this area on our own, but I always prefer to leave it to the hands of the experts, since they know which is the best time/angle/spot for you.  We managed to spot dolphins, however I can't find a nice photo to put up. They're so fast (well maybe we're too slow :P), so the pictures only shows the waves they created, the best only has their tails disappearing into the water.

We also get to see seals up-close!~ Really close, they stopped the boat next to the rocks where the seals are having their daily 'sun-tanning'. LOL. We also got to go so close to the sea cliffs, and also the blowholes. They actually turned the boat 360degrees to allow everyone on the boat to feel the blasts of water, so we sort of waited there for the next blast to come.

However, this whole journey was quite bumpy, gets worst when we gets into the middle of the ocean where the waves on that day were quite strong. But it is worth the experience (They hand out ginger pills before they start off - to me I think it was just a  psychological effect to calm us down).

These are some of the photos taken before & during the cruise - we need to hide the camera every now and then coz the water do splash into the boat often.

 Kettering pick-up point

 our coach entering the ferry

 views from the ferry

 all bundled up - and in the middle of the ocean it is still freaking cold..

 the monument

 the blowhole

seals

The Kettering pick-up cruise costs AUD125 per adult - you have an option to add on lunch and morning tea with an additional cost. Do check out their site.

In the evening, we head to Mount Wellington - the journey up to the mountain takes about 1 hour. The roads are windy and they do post up warnings on rainy days and you may not be able to access the top. We did not make it to the top, mainly cause the winds are so strong and it is already snowing (very small, light snow flakes) - we turn back when we're about 1.7km away from the top :( (I was too paranoid to continue :P). sigh.

We went down, snap some photos along the way and went for dinner at Ball & Chain Grill at Salamanca Place.

 from the highest point we went to

 freezing cold

 a glimpse of the rainbow

 Ball & Chain grill

 grilled sausages

grilled steak

lamb shank

The dinner was forgettable. I would say not bad but there's nothing to shout about. There are much better places that I've been to so this explains the lack of information about the main dishes I ordered :P ( I can't actually remember the exact taste or what exactly I've ordered). I'll try to look for the receipt so that I can at least put up the prices. 

Day 4, 5 and 6 in upcoming posts.. I can't wait to blog about Swansea town , I regret I did not stay longer here, Swansea is a lovely town with beautiful sceneries and home cooked cuisine.

Back to my coding and more readings. ......