Now sat in a lodge in Cradle Mountain. This is becoming the perfect holiday. I only need Claire here now and it would be.

This whole place is set in the wonderful wilderness that is Tasmania. Small lodges for sleeping in while a bigger, main lodge provides facilities. The whole place seems set up for couples. Reading all the marketing literature there's a Mountain Mystique - A full body massage and bath for 2. Only AU$100. I'll have to bring Clairey back here one day and do that!

When I was younger I was never into "views". Landscape didn't interest or excite me. That changed a little when I when went up into the highlands in Scotland but being here now I feel alive, inspired and excited. It's such a beautiful place. Tasmania sells itself as the 'natural state' and that's what it is. So little has been touched, a few roads, the odd town and a place like this are pretty much it.

The lodge is gorgeous. I have a whole room to myself, a double bed, shower, toilet and the log fire in the corner - something I will be firing up to sate the pyromaniac in me.

The morning was spent at Cataract Gorge. Had a long chairlift ride across it, a walk round and then the chairlift back again. Claire had told me to walk across the suspension bridge but that was closed.

Stopped in Deloraine for lunch. Had the most wonderful steak sandwich, filled with steak, bacon, egg, lettuce, tomato, cheese and onion.

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