We’re staying at an alpaca farm tonight, because when someone asks you if you want to wake up to alpacas, you say yes.
Today was a long drive south, so we took our time before getting on the road, and made a few short rest stops on the way down. The roads here are given route names that start with “A”, “B” or “C”. “A” routes seem to always be paved, although they may be little more than narrow country roads. “C” routes seem to be a roll of the dice – some are paved, some are dirt, and at least one has been a four-wheel drive only route, so we’ve learned to double check whatever directions Google Maps sends us before setting out. Until yesterday we assumed that “B” routes were always paved, too, but after twenty miles of dirt road in a Toyota Camry with about two millimeters of ground clearance we now know that’s not the case. We’re pretty confident that we will have the road situation all figured out just in time to catch our flight out from Hobart in two days.
Our eventual destination for today was Mount Field National Park, the second oldest national park in Tasmania and home to some famous waterfalls. The waterfalls were running low due to a lack of recent rain, but the rainforest was still lush and we spent a while photographing mushrooms along the trail. Tomorrow we’ll probably get a bit more practice at fungal photography before heading back to Hobart for our last day in Tasmania.
