day 4 - snow and optimistic walking

Today we did sleep great. Might be due to the amount of wine drink the night before. Still make many optimistic plans to walk the cradle mount loop the next day and just do a quick investigative look around this afternoon. 

Realised we didn't have enough food so did a half an hour drive back to Sheffield for food. Got more fruit and some pretol and really nice pies for lunch. Also bought too many pastries. I was pretty tired driving but didn't do terribly. 

Quickly dropped food home then drive into the national Park. Road wasn't great but had some funny experiences. They were "Alastair: I don't think we'll get many straight parts of road until cradle mountain" and immediately the road became straight forever, and quote too "Bini: wouldn't it be great if it started snowing" legit 3 seconds later it started snowing. 

Luckily we were dressed for it, both had thermals and multiple jumpers, however somehow we had both forgotten gloves and beanies. Bought a beanie each at the visitors centres and well as some bus tickets. snow was stunning and we got some great pictures see below. 

Caught cradle mountain bus all the way to dove lake which we had planned to walk around. Canned that idea but walked out to glacier rock. Where we got some amazing views of cradle mountain as the clouds cleared and the sun came out briefly. Was very picturesque. 

Loved how the snow started the settle going up the mountain in a gradient. Reminded me very much of the Witcher scenery. Was an awesome and great experience. Snow baby Bini made an appearance which is always amusing. 

Caught the bus back and did 2 small walks. One called the enchanted forest Walk which went through a nice but of temperate rainforest which was awesome and very beautiful in the snow. Also got about half a metre away from a wombat which was very very cool as we didn't expect to see any this trip. (Any alive anyway, plenty of road kill). 

Headed home and had the rest of the curry for dinner.