Let me try to recall what I did on that day… Morning we woke up and head downstair of our guesthouse to have our breakfast. But when we head out, the restaurant is still locked. The other couple who is staying beside us were downstair too. After 5 mins of waiting, our host, Lauren I believe opened the door for us and tadah…. a good hot breakfast is served to us. =)

 

There’re many selection for breakfast, too bad we dont have too much time as we need to rush for our glow worm tour at 10am. Anyway I love the guesthouse… if you are ever going to Mole Creek, please book a night here. 

 

After the good and heavy breakfast, we drove to Marakoopa cave which is 15 mins drive away. Bought our tickets and drove up a small hill to wait for our tour guide to bring us into the tour. We are all bundled up as the cave temperature is aroaund 7-9 degree celcius. Anyway it’s cold that we can see mist when we breathe.

 

Our group consists of a family of Hongkonger, a lone Canadian lady and an Australian family who brought their baby along! I’m rather amaze that they brought their baby along. That baby should be around 4-5 months old and the cave is cold. But the baby slept through it anyway. But I’m really amaze with caucasians. The Chinese will want their babies to stay at home until around 7-8 months then bring them out to shop or what. But this is a 4-5 months baby inside a cold and damp cave… *applause…

 

Anyway back to the cave, the guide brought us in and introduce the formation of the crystals inside the cave. But that’s not the exciting part… what I’m more interested is the glow-worm! It’s pretty laaaa.. like small stars twinkling up in the sky. But it’s cave in fact. The tour guide switched off the light in the cave and it was totally dark. Can’t see anything at all… and at that moment your sense our hearing does get more sensitive. BUt that darkness is scary… I can picture what it feels like to be blind through that experience… you feel helpless.

 

After the 45 mins cave tour, we drove straight to cradle mountain. Another 1.5 hr drive to reach the mountain. This time it’s moiiii driving… lalalalalaaaa…. i only drive during the day. Hahahahaaa…. It’s a nice drive up there anyway, one thing that keeps bugging me is whether the petrol in the car is sufficient to reach the place because we are left with less than half a tank and we got 77km+ to drive. But bless us, there’s a small petrol kiosk up the mountain to fill up the thirsty tank.

 

We bought two sandwich from the cafe and pack them for our dove lake walk. The total distance is around 6km long and the expected time to complete the walk will be around 2 hr. Anyway it was freezing cold up on cradle mountain. It was drizzling when we reached there and the sky is so grey…  

 

Oh the rain in Australia is so different from those in Singapore. The rain over there is very fine and small droplet. A bit like mist, on the otherhand, Singapore rain is machiam one big droplet of water. 

 

OK back to my dove lake walk… two words to describe it… tiring, beautiful. The walk is loooong la… OK i admit i’m not a very healthy person so maybe that’s why it’s tiring to me. When we first started the walk, the path is really easy to walk. Wooden plank all lay out flat and nice. We just walked through trees and trees and trees… Nope wrong, we’re walking in between trees and water. On my left is dense forest while on my right is the clear lake. 

 

So we walked and walked and walked. But it started drizzling when we reached the halfway mark. Luckily I got a hooded jacket and is able to keep my head wet. But as the rain gets heavier… the walk gets more tedious. There’s no more wooden plank, instead it’s gravel road with lots of rocks and stones. So it get pretty tedious for me with the rain and the terrain. In the end bf has to pulled me along some route because it’s just sooo tiring. I was feeling so hot that i unzipped my jacket and pull out  my shawl. And I just keep praying that the wooden plank will appear again and I can forget about the gravel road… but it didn’t come very soon… Ughhhh…

 

Anyway most importantly, I completed my walk. Phewww…. damn happy la. Because if i dont’ finish it, there’s no short cut for me to reach the final destination… unless… i swim via the lake?! Hahahahahaaaa…

 

We completed our walk in 1 hr 50 mins. It will be shorter if I had walked faster and stop Oooo-ing and Aaaah-ing over the scenery la. Keekekekkeeee…

 

We took the shuttle bus back down to the carpark where we parked our car and we drove straight to Launceston. It’s around 1hr plus drive. This time, bf drives instead because the sky is turning dark. Drove down the windy hilly road and back to long and straight highway. We reached our service apartment soon and it was BIG la. There’s 3 rooms, a living room and dining room, a kitchen and a big jacuzzi. Nice place!!! TOo big for two people but still it’s nice! Lalalalaaaa…

 

THe whole house is done in Japanese style with Kimono hanging on walls etc. We had italian takeaway that day, pizza and pasta… and I drove in the city because bf dont like to do so and I tried doing a parallel parking twice before I manage to get my car into the lot… -_-”

 

OK that’s all for day 3… feeling lazy to continue… stay tune for day 4 aka last day in Tasmania. Bleahhhhh