Cradle Mountain Day 3

Wednesday, 13 January 2021

Another amazing day. We had decided to do something nice and easy before driving home, so after a breakfast of pancakes we packed up and moved the car down to Ronny Creek, then got the shuttle into Dove Lake. It was still quiet as we started the 6k circuit - in fact it was so quiet that we had to put Jon at the front of our group to break through the spider webs.  We were probably 3/4 of the way around the lake before we crossed paths with someone going in the other direction. They were very jumpy as they claimed they'd already disturbed two snakes. heh heh.  We saw three between us the day before so we weren't particularly bothered by snake sightings. 

Along the way we tried to get Zali and Jett re-create this photo from 2014:

but because we didn't have any phone service we couldn't check my blog so were just going off memory, and we took it from the wrong side of the tree. Still, it wasn't a bad effort.

The rest of the stroll was uneventful yet delightful.

Under slight duress (Zali), we walked the extra few ks back to the car at Ronny Creek. We were forced to wait a while as we are only allowed to drive out of the park tailing one of the shuttle busses, and we seemed to hit a quiet patch for shuttles when we were finally ready. It didn't matter though, it's a nice place to wait.

Once out we took one of the many scenic routes available to us and drove home via Chudleigh.  The end of a lovely weekend, and the perfect way to end my Christmas holidays.