Awoken by a duck, we’re naming Frederick, who wanted some breakfast

We share some croissant with him while we have some yoghurt and a coffee before getting out of here

Driving North, we meet Batman Bridge: an icon of Tasmania

Next on the agenda is coffee – we continue to Hillwood which has a quaint little cafe, called Marigolds on the Tamar, where we enjoy a coffee and the view

The owners have done exactly what we’re up to in reverse: went travelling, when they were young, for a couple years around Europe!

After the coffees, we pop down the the platoon to see a couple people attempting to fish in the extreme wind

In the car, we head the majority of the way for today’s driving to Bridport where we have a lunch stop at @ The Bridge

Fed, we make tracks to our first official stop of the day

Little Blue Lake is the most famous of several in the area that is the result of alluvial tin mining: it is indeed bright blue!

We take a walk around the lake and there’s a bunch of salt flats too

Back to the car, we have to decide whether we aim for one landmark or another – we go for the bigger of the two as they’re each about an hours drive

Up and round the North East corner of Tasmania we go and the majority of the journey is on a wobbly unsealed road!

We do make it, eventually, though the turn off we need seems to be someone’s private land…

We keep going and after an extra 45 minutes, we’ve made it to the South entrance of the Bay of Fires

The name of these enclave of bays is from Captain Tobias Furneaux, in 1773, as a response to the many Aboriginal fires he saw burning on its shore

It’s a region of white beaches, blue water and orange-hued granite – another reason to keep the name – this colour is actually produced by a lichen/moss

In Binalong Bay, we scramble on the rocks before enjoying the beach and then get in the car and head up North of the bays

The Gardens is the point visitors can get to and hosts a lot of farm land as well as more lichen-covered rocks

There’s even a rock shaped like a Koala, but it’s high tide so we don’t see it

We go a little bit back to Taylors Beach where we practically have it to ourselves!

Running low on fuel, we happily call it a day on the car-based sightseeing and head South

Saint Helens has Bayside Hotel where we are staying tonight and grab a meal here too

Two roast of the day meals with a couple schooners of the month

We wonder to a point listed on Google for bird viewing and get close up to all the Black Swans with their cygnets

There were even some Australian Pied Oystercatchers – no photos but awesome to see!

Back to the hotel, we have a dip in the pool

Dave packed only the hotel floor towel so we have to dash back to our room evading being seen out in public ????

Now to chill in bed at the end of a long day