Unfortunately On the way to the airport olive broke out into a fever. For a minute we were not sure if we would have to change course to take her to the doctors, but she seemed to come good so we pushed on.

A spot of lunch at the airport to refuel and then to the boarding gate

We spent the next 20 minutes artfully avoiding the airline employee weighing everyone’s bags. Somehow we managed to escape the wrath of her scales. We are pretty sure our bags are heavier than the limit. Cherie blames me for jinxing us , after I spent half the drive to the airport saying I had never had my bags weighed.

Below is a picture of the plane we didn’t catch

Waiting for takeoff

Touch down!!!!!

This lovely little beagle was doing his part to protect Tasmania’s eco system.

We made it to the hotel (thanks to the skybus) and spotted this rainbow from our window. Hopefully a sign of things to come

Olive started to seem better but has now crashed out completely. She has a pretty high fever (poor little thing). This picture is just before she crashed. We played a round of guess who followed by a game with these square things

Cherie and I ordered room service for dinner and now we are enjoying this view out the window.

Tomorrow we will pick up the camper van and work out if we go to MONA or to a wildlife reserve. Stay tuned!

After lunch we headed back to that cool bakery and picked up 2 loads of bread, 6 bagels and a donut.

We made our way back to the hotel to check out with our spoils of baked goods.

We checked out of the hotel and caught a taxi to the camper van place (cruisin’) to pick up our new home/set of wheels for the holiday.

Below is the obligatory shot of tourism brochures at the caravan place.

Our new home!!

Read - set - go!

Our first port of call was the Museum of New and Old Art (MONA). By he time we arrived it was lunch time and we were all hungry so we sat down in the cafe courtyards and had a bite to eat. Olive fed the cute little chickens (and the scarier big one) that were roaming around the cafe.

Nice view

We made our way into the exhibitions and Olive lasted for maybe 45 minutes before it was all to much for her. Looks like the Panadole had worn off and she was still feeling unwell so we decided to pack it in and make our way over to the caravan park. Below are a few shots of what we did see at MONA

This work below is really cool- the machine creates raindrops in the form of words and “rains” a new word every few seconds- the words have a political slant.

The caravan park we are staying at has a wood fired pizza restraunt attached to it. Olive was really keen to have pizza for dinner so we thought why not.

Olive said it was the “best tasting pizza” she has ever had. Huge wraps from a girl who knows a thing or two about eating pizza. We told the wait staff what Olive had said and they were really chuffed... until olive then went on to clarify to them that while the pizza was good the veggies were absolutely disgusting.

The waiter chuckled and replied “From the mouths of babes.”

Oh Olive.

After dinner we settled in for our first night in the camper.

After the wild life park we considered going to port Arthur but decided to give it a miss due to the long drive time and Olives inability to withstand boring adult stuff like MONA yesterday... so we decided to got to Richmond (Tasmania) which is a historic little town close by with some wineries around it.

Olive fell asleep on the way there so we stopped briefly by the old bridge (built by unskilled convict labourers in 1823) and then headed over to a couple of wineries for tasting.

Once we got all our ducks in a row it was time to hit the wineries.

This winery was cool - on the wall too can see two soil extractions from their two seperate vineyards. The farmer dug a trench in each winery and pour latex down the wall and made a cut on the other side to get the sample.

Olive woke up for this one which was lucky because they had a playground! Cherie and I had a wine taste paddle each and sat by while olive enjoyed running around and playing

But olive was a little \240frightened of these birds. To me they look like they are wearing clown makeup.

We headed back to our campground and after olive had a little play on the swings there we played a few games and had some snacks before I got dinner underway.

It started raining so we took the party inside... Wine time!

A nutritious dinner of pork sausage , with a side of pork sausage.

The sausages were a real crowd pleaser (evidenced by the look of joy on everyone’s face)

After dinner Olive put herself to bed and Cherie and I played a few rounds of cards.

Earlier in the day we also bought impromptu tickets to the Huon Valley festival so tomorrow we will hit up Salamanca markets and then make our way down that eh Huon valley.

Olive loved this band. They also played at the music festival later in the day.

I had a fresh ly shucked oyster for $2. It was incredible.

This guy had some mad soccer ball juggling tricks

Below shot is of the festival location (franklin)

Matt okine = funny

During the festival Olive ditched me for someone else’s dad when I wouldn’t get up to dance. It was pretty funny.

Friends again

Asta had some nice tunes

Lunch in Campbell town

This place in Campbell Town with 1000 chimneys was for sale... tempting

The Main Street of Campbell town has all these bricks laid with the details of convicts who settled the area. Their name, age, ship and crime are all listed

Cradle mountain!!