A summer in Tasmania

[Jacques Vert]

This one struck me - died a day before his 21st birthday.
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A day before or a day after?

 

[drron]

Yes.sorry it was after.Just another senior moment.Becoming more frequent sadly.

 

[drron]

So a bit after 2000 I drove out to LST.Arrived just in time to see the afternoon light on the mountains.
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And a VA2 flight take off for BNE.
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Soon after the flight from BNE that I was waiting for.
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Soon I was reunited with mrsdrron.She had eaten so it was back to the Hotel Verge.
One of the good things staying here on a Friday night is that on Saturday morning the Harvest market is right behind the hotel.We bought some very nice mushrooms.
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And also this -
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I have just had some of those mushrooms sauteed with a creamy garlic sauce and some of this mushroom powder.really nice.
I also bought some of my favourite Southern Sky cheeses.

 

[drron]

After that we travelled back to the Adams distillery as i had noticed a sign on the house saying please visit our garden.It looked interesting so we did and it was.A huge garden with a great variety of plants and trees.Well divided into different areas.A bit overgrown but still a nice diversion.
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[drron]

Roses are just past their best in Tassie right now but still some nice specimens.
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And they have the Flow bee hive system that we have been looking at.
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[drron]

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A couple of Thanksgiving survivors.
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So if you visit the distillery pop across and take a look at the garden.And I do recommend the distillery if you like your whisky or gin.

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[drron]

We then drove back through Perth and diverted via the Old bridge road to a small park by the South Esk river.
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The ducks are obviously used to humans and being fed.
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[drron]

Next stop was at Franklin House on the way back into Launceston.
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The hall and the separate Kitchen.
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Then it was out to the garden.
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And out to the veggie garden.
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[drron]

Back to the front of the house and the other major building of the former village of Franklin- the church.
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[drron]

After that it was lunch at Me Wah.
We started sharing Peking duck pancakes and char sui.
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Then garlic prawns,deluxe fried rice and truffled mushrooms.
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The food was excellent as was the sevice.The food is more expensive than your run of the mill chinese restaurant but definitely worth it.With 2 glasses of sav blanc and 1 of pinot noir the bill came to $165.
A definite recommendation.

 

[mrs.dr.ron]

Lunch at the MeWah reminded me of the high end Chinese restaurants in Dixon Street we used to go to in the 70s.
And the lunch at MeWah was excellent.

 

[drron]

So on Sunday we headed south to pick up some crayfish and have lunch with RooFlyer.
We stopped for a while at Swansea as we were a little early.Parked over the road from the RSL/Museum.Sunday so it was closed.
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Views over the bay to the Freycinet Peninsula.
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[drron]

We walked up and down the main street.
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Then up one of the side streets.The court house and a B & B.
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