Saturday today, so, of course, we have to visit the Salamanca Market, Tasmania's most visited tourist attraction, attracting over one million visitors a year. We were here 18 years ago and still use the wattle chopping board we purchased. We found somewhere for breakfast and purchased a few "odds and ends" to take home.
From the market, we headed to Kunanyi/Mount Wellington, a 30-minute drive that takes you from sea level to a height of 1,271 metres. It's much cooler up here and the vegetation is quite different - a tundra climate, a maritime polar climate or a subpolar oceanic climate, depending on who you listen to.
The cold and the wind certainly shapes the vegetation - low-lying shrubs, cushion plants, and wind-sculpted trees.
From Kunanyi/Mount Wellington, we headed to Cascade Brewery's gardens for lunch.
The Brewery is the oldest continually operating brewery in Australia, established in 1824, and is unique among Australian breweries and rare among breweries worldwide in that it operates its own maltings, producing malt for its mainstream beers (including Premium Lager and Pale Ale) from locally grown barley.
We were there for lunch, along with a lot of other people - a very popular spot. We did find a table in their gardens and enjoyed our meal, followed by a walk along the Cascade Rivulet as far as the Female Factory (where we will return to tomorrow). We hoped that we might see a platypus, as they are known to be in this area. No such luck!
Back to Wyndham for dinner in their restaurant once again.
