Freycinet National Park

This was our transport to view the park. It was touch and go whether we could go or not due to te weather. We thought we could go on the Monday but the pilot had been busy and had had to take the day off as a rest day, by law he is only allowed to fly for six days then he is required to est for at least a day. Problem was that Tuesday the forecast was not good so we had to wait and see.

A storm complete with thunder went through sometime Tuesday morning and we got a phone call to say that ten o'clock looked okay to get up if we wanted to go. We were only about twenty minutes from the air strip so we packed up and drove down. The weather was good with blue skies and white fluffy clouds. The plane is tiny, only room for four people.

We opted for a 45 minute flight costing $175 each but so worth it.

The above photo is Wineglass Bay so called because of its shape and also years ago when they used to slaughter the whales there, often the water was the colour of red wine. Jason the pilot gave a commentary while he was flying as well.

5.30am is not my favoured time

Grrrr the alarm goes at 5.07am as we had to leave at 5.30am, (I always like to have 10 or 15 minutes up my sleeve). Had to have the car at the Airport parking by 6.30/6.45am to check in and then they would drive us to the airport, seeing as we had not been there before and the traffic, we wanted to have a fudge factor.

Everything went as planned and we were at the airport with plenty of time, had HJ's for brekkie, an egg and bacon muffin. Slept for a few minutes on the plane but it was noisy as there were people from a company who were travelling and of course they were dotted around the plane and the conversations went between many seats.

We had hired a car from a company in Melbourne and as they were away from the airport, we needed to ring them and get picked up by the time we walked to the pick up area, we only had to wait  a couple of minutes. It was a little car! the insurance was actually more than hiring the car!

Two hours across the city and a stop for lunch and we were pulling into Rob's. We had to check out the deck that he has built on the side of the house. Wow it was impressive, really dont know how he managed to do it on his own (except for a almost 3 year old "helping") Its all finished except the roof and he is waiting for that to be delivered.