Great Adventure Day 2
It was 8:00, so you know what that means! Fresh bread on our doorstep - -mmmm, yes, each morning at eight sharp, fresh, warm bread. Marmalade and butter in the fridge and fresh coffee boiled on the stovetop - - with a view to die for. Now, this is breakfast. Plus, Rod was in heaven as there was a television in the room and he was able to watch the Rugby World Cup semi-final match. Does it get any better than this? Na-ah.
After a leisurely morning, we were off to do a bit of tramping (walking that is) and exploring in the 4WD. We drove nearly an hour to the top of the island to a mass grave site where people were buried after a horrible shipwreck in the late 1800s. A bit grim, but a nice walk all the same. Our second walk was through Windy Canyon, which was terribly windy (whoda thunkit?), to the top of a mountain with more amazing views. We ended our physical day with a walk to a waterfall. We worked off the bread!
Back to the room to prepare for dinner. We're off the Skilly's remember? We travel 20 minutes down the track and round the corner to see this huge, grey old-looking lodge at the top of a hill. It's isolated from anything else and reminded me of house in the movie, Psycho. Turns out it was a relatively new lodge. A fire was roaring in the lounge and another couple was there joining us for Skilly's dinner - Alison and Gary.
Skilly was officially cooking, but was really just taking orders from his wife who is the actual cook at the lodge. She had snapped her Achilles tendons somehow and was in a wheelchair. So, he was literally cooking to her orders. During the night, he would come out as if he had just been beaten up and ask for luck as he plunged back through the kitchen door.
Alison and Gary turned out to be lovely company. We dined over fresh seafood chowder, snapper, potatoes, spinach and a chocolate pot for dessert. Turns out Skilly is definitely a man of many talents. Oh yeah, and he cleans up pretty well too.
Back to the room for another round of Midnight Movie Madness (we're getting crazy in our old age!) and off to bed.
Heather
After a leisurely morning, we were off to do a bit of tramping (walking that is) and exploring in the 4WD. We drove nearly an hour to the top of the island to a mass grave site where people were buried after a horrible shipwreck in the late 1800s. A bit grim, but a nice walk all the same. Our second walk was through Windy Canyon, which was terribly windy (whoda thunkit?), to the top of a mountain with more amazing views. We ended our physical day with a walk to a waterfall. We worked off the bread!
Back to the room to prepare for dinner. We're off the Skilly's remember? We travel 20 minutes down the track and round the corner to see this huge, grey old-looking lodge at the top of a hill. It's isolated from anything else and reminded me of house in the movie, Psycho. Turns out it was a relatively new lodge. A fire was roaring in the lounge and another couple was there joining us for Skilly's dinner - Alison and Gary.
Skilly was officially cooking, but was really just taking orders from his wife who is the actual cook at the lodge. She had snapped her Achilles tendons somehow and was in a wheelchair. So, he was literally cooking to her orders. During the night, he would come out as if he had just been beaten up and ask for luck as he plunged back through the kitchen door.
Alison and Gary turned out to be lovely company. We dined over fresh seafood chowder, snapper, potatoes, spinach and a chocolate pot for dessert. Turns out Skilly is definitely a man of many talents. Oh yeah, and he cleans up pretty well too.
Back to the room for another round of Midnight Movie Madness (we're getting crazy in our old age!) and off to bed.
Heather
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