Bit of a different holiday this one. Planned mostly to relax, not do too much. Thursday 5th May 2016
Fly to Hobart - arrive around midday. Taxi to motel.
Motel: Salamanca Inn
Lunch: The Whaler, Salamanca
Walk around Salamanca and Battery Point
Dinner: Salamanca Inn Beef and Seafood Grill

Friday 6th May 2016
Sleep in
Breakfast: Rendezvous Lounge cafe
Out Of This World
Area 52 comics
Tasmanian Museum and Art Gallery (took tour)
Lunch: Cafe @ Tasmanian Museum and Art Gallery
Walk along Hobart water
Gin and Whiskey tasters @ Society
Whiskey and baked brie @ Nant Whiskey Bar in Salamanca

Saturday 7th May 2016
Salamanca Market
Breakfast @ Rhyme St Cafe
Area 52 Comics again (free comic book day)
Walk around Hobart
Relax, read comics
Drinks @ Society again
Dinner: 3 Japanese
Drinks @ Nant Whiskey bar again
Ice cream from... somewhere

Sunday 8th May 2016
Breakfast: Retro Cafe @ Salamanca
MONA (11am boat)
Lunch: MONA cafe
5pm boat back
Try various pubs...
Dinner: Smolt
Buy some wine and head back to room

Monday 9th May 2016
Breakfast: Banjo's Bakery
Pick up hire car @ 10
Royal Botanic Gardens
Lunch @ Suculant @ Gardens
Mount Nelson signal house
Truganini reserve
Ridge road, Strickland road drive
Back to motel, swim
Dinner: Jack Greene

Tuesday 10th May 2016
Breakfast: Zum
Tahune Airwalk + swing bridge walks
Lunch: Tahune cafe
Do some washing at motel
Dinner: Waterman's Beer Market
Back and forth between pub and motel checking on dryer...

Wednesday 11th May 2016
Breakfast: Machine Laundry Cafe
Mount Field National Park
- buy parks pass to last our trip
- drive to top, had snowed the night before
- wet, windy
- walk to all three waterfalls (3 hours)
Lunch: Mount Field National Park Waterfalls cafe
Finish walking around 5:30, getting very dark, Pademelon all out and about
Not much fun driving back - wet, raining, dark
Dinner: The Whaler
Drinks at Nant

Thursday 12th May 2016
Sick - gastro
Breakfast: Doctor Coffee
Check out at 10:30
Drive via Highland Lake rd (A5) to Cradle Mountain
Lunch: Great Lake Hotel, Miena
Still a bit of snow about the lake from night before
Shopped for provisions at Sheffield
Motel: Cradle Mountain Highlander Village
Still sick, fever, shivering

Friday 13th May 2016
Still sick
Don't leave motel until 1pm
Lunch @ Visitor's Centre
Drive to ranger station
Enchanted Walk, King Billy and Pine Falls walks
Dinner: Cradle Mountain Lodge Highland restaurant
Sick all night

Saturday 14th May 2016
Better!
Drive to ranger station, road closed, back again
Take shuttle bus to Dove Lake
Dove Lake Walk
Relaxing afternoon by the fire

Sunday 15th May 2016
Horrible weather
More relaxing by the fire
Lunch: Quoll's @ RACT Cradle Mountain
Dinner: Cradle Mountain Lodge Tavern

Monday 16th May 2016
Shuttle bus to Ronny Creek
Walk Cradle Mountain boardwalk to Snake Hill
Bus to Dove Lake
Walk to Crater Lake via Wombat Pool,
then to Ronny Creek via Crater Falls
See 10 wombats near Ronny Creek
Bus to ranger station, walk to Lodge
Lunch: Cradle Mountain Lodge Tavern
Back to room - raining again, relaxing

Tuesday 17th May 2016
Wet day again
Devils@Cradle
Wombat visits our cabin
Dinner @ Ghost Gum @ RACT
Pademelon outside our cabin on way back

Wednesday 18th May 2016
Shuttle to Dove Lake
Cradle Mountain boardwalk to Ronny Creak
Bus to Snake Hill
Cradle Mountain boardwalk back to ranger station
See a wombat near end of walk and in cark park at ranger station
Relaxin' and eatin' again

Thursday 19th May 2016
Drive to Launceston via Olivers Rd, Mole Creek
See deer on the road near Mole Creek
Motel: Balmoral on York
Lunch: Perfect Potatoes Plus
Walk around town
Kings Park, macaques!
Tasting at Boag's Brewery
Dinner: Novaro's

Friday 20th May 2016
Breakfast: motel
QVMAG
Got there early, coffee @ Blue nearby until opens
Leave 12:30 - walk to Cataract Gorge
Walk Zig Zag track, chairlift
Lunch: Devonshire tea at cafe
Walk on north side of river to Duck Reach powerstation
Spot many many wallaby
Walk back on south side of river to gorge, walk back to town
Drinks @ Alchemy
Dinner: Joyce Chinese

Saturday 21st May 2016
Breakfast: motel
Drive to Beauty Point
Seahorse World
Platypus House
Lunch: The River Cafe, Beauty Point
Drive to Narawntapu National Park, via Badger Head road
Spinglawn walk
Spot 50+ Forester kangaroo and various pademelon
Drive to Greens Beach - lookout
Drive back, over Batman Bridge, down A8
Dinner: motel

Sunday 22nd May 2016
Breakfast: motel
Checkout @ 10
QVMAG Art Gallery
Lunch: Mabella&Boy cafe
Drive to airport (fill up), drop car
Coffee @ airport watching Air Crash Investigators
Flight home
Dinner @ pub
Drive home!
Puppy!