Cadbury Factory and South Tasmania

Cadbury Factory

We went back to Hobart the next day to visit the Cadbury Factory.

They no longer have tours of the factory but they do have a visitor’s centre where you can watch a video and a short presentation on how Cadbury Chocolate is made. It was interesting.

The boys loved the chocolate shop where everything was quite cheap (compared to supermarkets anyway). There was also a café where the hot chocolate was too die for!! Yummy!!

PS We met up with Pete and Deb at the Cadbury Factory, friends of ours from Caloundra who were also in Tasmania – small world! It was great to catch up over a hot chocolate.

Franklin & South Tassie

We left Richmond and travelled to Franklin, a small town on the Huon River to set up camp. There was a lovely little council camp ground right on the river (toilets only) for $10 bucks a night. Bargain! We used this as a base to explore the south of Tassie.

We visited the Tahune Air Walk (Feb12) which is situated in the Southwest National Park and is a steel walkway suspended high above the ground amongst the tops of the trees. Truly amazing.

 

One part of the air walk had no ground support but was cantilevered, so it moved with the wind and also with the people walking out to the end – a bit scary!!

 

 

 

 

There were also some huge trees in the park – we had been waiting/(hoping) to see some big trees and were rewarded with some beautiful old huge trees!  

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Cockle Creek

Road south

From Franklin we decided to spend the next day on a drive down to Cockle Creek which is apparently the southernmost part of Tasmania and thus the southernmost tip of Australia (that you can drive to).  Cockle Creek used to be a whaling station and they have a whale sculpture on the point it was so windy and thus freezing!!!!!!!!

 

Being blown away in front of the whale sculpture!

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

On the way back from Cockle Creek we visited the thermal springs at Hastings. We were expecting a warm ‘natural’ spring...turned out to be an actual swimming pool and probably only 28 degrees, not nearly hot enough for me!! However, we did all go in for a dip then we had a nice hot shower after… which was planned as their were no showers at camp :oP

Whilst we were in Franklin the town had a ‘wooden boat’ Regatta on during the weekend, with entertainment on Saturday night. We walked down for a look and saw a couple of Reserve Light Horsemen on their horses dancing to music. That was a sight… full uniform and all!!