Launceston to St Helens

In the middle of the night I woke up because the rain was hitting my face haha. I got up and closed the old sash window. We had an easy morning and went out to the Cataract Gorge. It has an old chairlift that takes you over and a swimming pool. It looks like it was set up in the 60s and hasn’t changed since.

It is time to get out Launceston isn’t anything to write home about. We ended up doing a few of the op shops on our way out of town. We head towards the ocean to Low Head. There is some great history out there and I would like to stay in the old pilot station which now has accommodation. We picked the right day as the weather was a bit better than yesterdays.

Back tracking a little we head east to Little Blue Lake. The scenery along the way is mostly farms. Little Blue Lake is gorgeous, it is caused by historic mining.

Dirt road nearly all the way to St Helens. We take the road less travelled, through the bush. Eventually we hit our destination.

Our hotel is on the way into town. Atilla is new to the hotel business and he is a very lovely man. He makes lots of recommendations of where to go and what to do. It takes over half an hour to check in. He decides to upgrade us to a two bedroom place when he hears we are with Rowans Aunty. Very kind of him indeed. The place has a lot of thought out into it and is very nice.

I convince Christine and Rowan to get back into the car as we have an hour of daylight left. We head up to the Bay of Fires National Park. The views are incredible.

After our excursion we were pretty hungry so we headed back to St Helens where the wharf is and found a good takeaways. We took it back to our little room to eat. The food was delicious and more than enough for all of us. We ended up getting to bed at a reasonable time.