Certainly a peaceful sleep – quiet and chilly – just what we needed

A filter coffee while we plan the day before getting ready and heading out back to Deloriane

We aim for a 50s diner that took our eye going past the first time but it’s unfortunately closed temporarily

The British, an English-style hotel and pub, has us for a couple of roast pork meals

They don’t serve coffee so we pop down the road for large takeaway flat whites from Frog’s Bakery

We drive into Tasmania’s Highlands past both Quamby Bluff Forest Reserve and Liffey Forest Reserve to get to Pine Lake

There’s a little boardwalk to take you through the vegetation and reach the lake itself with signs of information about the area along the way

We learn that here is the home of Pencil Pines which are found only in Tasmania but they belong to the same family as the tallest tree in the world (the giant Californian Sequoia)

There’s several different groupings of vegetation you can see here too from the same

One of the sign even shares about the history of origin being alike somewhere far away due to being a different landscape millions of years ago

We get to the end, by the water, and turn back

Back down the hill we go to visit Liffey Falls

Shortly after the turn off from the main road, Dave spots another Echidna looking for some lunch!

Back in the car and make it to the car park, having to evade some very sharp corners

Park up and round the corner has one very tall tree signposted as Brown Top Stringy Bark Eucalyptus obliqua, with it’s diameter reaching 3.4m and height 50m

It’s only a short walk, via the many cascades of the river, and then we get to the main falls

Very pretty but, unfortunately, no Platypus like we hoped

Back to the car to make our way back to Deloriane as there’s another potential opportunity to see a Platypus around their river

Meander River has it’s own Platypus viewing platform which we walk to on the Wild Woods Nature Trail; they even have a statue of one (featured image)

We don’t get any luck again but we’re not deterred from persisting for this bizarre exception to typical Mammals

There were lots of indicators that they do live around here: “mud chimneys” which are air holes from where Crayfish are burrowing we’re everywhere – a common menu item for them

We enjoy ducks and geese along the water anyways, as well as a family of Native Tasmanian Hens

Getting hungry, we go back to The British for some dinner as it’s the cheapest, decent meal in town

Two half rack of pork ribs – delish!

We grab some lunch supplies for tomorrow’s adventure as well as some fuel on the way to King Solomons Cave

We arrive and there’s no one else here but we go have a nose at the entrance

It is, unfortunately, requiring a guide to visit these caves, and another we were interested in, so we might come back for them another day – we take a little nature trail back to the car

We hoped, being around dusk, we might encounter some wildlife but no luck again for us this time

To the car and back to our cabin – lots of Pademelon on the road paths

Note: our activities today took longer than expected – we really didn’t mean to drive so late and want to emphasise how much we don’t recommend driving when it’s dark because there’s such a high chance of hitting wildlife (so much roadkill around the road ????)