An Eventful Day in Northern Tasmania

Today we went to Sheffield and saw some beautiful murals that the town copied from a Canadian town to enhance the tourism in the area.  Our Canadian teammates were proud of that :)

We also went to a wildlife park and got to see the wallabies in prime mating season.  I'll spare the x-rated wallaby pictures and video, but trust me, they're HILARIOUS!  bow-chica-bow-wow! I'm not sure if we have any underaged blog viewers, but we'll email them to you if you ask.  I (Ashley) also got a leech stuck onto both my ankles and now have an authentic leech bite souvenir to take back home with me.  I thought leeches only lived in and near lakes, but was horribly mistaken.

We went to this WONDERFUL raspberry farm/restaurant where they grown heaps (as the Australians would say) of raspberries and had lunch there.  We all tried something different, but most of their food and drinks have some sort of raspberry component.  We couldn't go to a raspberry place and not have dessert, so we shared a raspberry crepe with homemade raspberry ice cream and a chocolate raspberry mud pie.

We also went to Ashgrove Cheese where they are similar in that they milk their own cows, make milk and cheese.  Apparently their cheese is even exported to Wisconsin and if it's good enough for the cheese-heads, it's certainly good enough for us!  We had some samples and they was delicious!  There has already been talk of stocking up on it prior to our mid-term break.

Next, we went to Anvers Chocolates where they make everything you could ever imagine out of chocolate.  They claim to make the best hot chocolate in the world and i think we all agree that they are telling the truth there!  Fabulous hot chocolate!  They have cinnamon, Aztec spice, vanilla and traditional hot chocolates.

What a wonderful day!  Although with all that food and sampling, our walk at Cradle Mountain tomorrow is something we're looking forward to.