Strahan to Cradle Mountain

Okay, today we drove from Strahan to Cradle Mountain.  The road was better than the trip from Hobart to Strahan, but still very curvy and narrow and I'm still driving on the left side of the road!  We thought we had quite a bit of time, so we were going to stop along the route and visit some of the sights.

Just under an hour out of Strahan we come to the thriving metropolis of Zeehan.  I've heard that this town has a museum and some very interesting railway and mining history.  Soooo....we took a side trip.  I swear, if I had a cannon and shot a cannon ball down the main street of town, it wouldn't have touched a thing!  I reckon (that's Aussie for I think) that the town was devastated by Zombies.  Nothing, nada, nichts, I'm telling ya...no people no cars nothing.  Saturday morning and the place was closed.  (Wish I'd been there on Friday night.)

On to the mountain.  We've got a quant little cabin in the middle of the woods.  Park the car outside the cabin, come out in an hour and there are spider webs on the car!  Unreal. 

We headed over to the park entrance and registered the took a shuttle bus to Dove Lake for a view of the Lake and Cradle Mountain.

The lake is, obviously, Dove Lake and the mountain in the background is Cradle Mountain.  The person who discovered this area looked at the mountain and said it reminded him of a lumber cradle, but then went on to say that the cradle (the area between the two peaks in the background) looks like it has a baby in it.  If you look very carefully you'll notice the baby's head on the left and the body laying in the cradle.  (Maybe you had to be there!?!)

We walked around the lake for awhile and then headed back to the park entrance.  We then went to the Cradle Mountain Lodge for afternoon tea..........well I had a beer but Noreen had tea!

Just down from the old lodge is a beautiful stream.

We've signed up for an evening tour.  The tour is around the park and to the Devils@Cradle interpretive centre where I will finally come face to face with the devil....the Tasmanian Devil that is.  I just want to know why for they buried him in the cold, cold ground.  (You have to be a Bugs Bunny fan to understand that somewhat obscure reference.)  I'll get back to you later with more on the tour, hopefully with some pics.