Stanley, oh & HAPPY NEW YEAR!!

We spent New Years near Stanley at a National Park bush camp. It was by the mouth of the Black River and was very beautiful, although a little wet and quite cold. We celebrated the new year with a campfire, some local scallops followed by marshmallows and some sparklers... does it get any better! It was a pretty spot and at low tide we were able to ride along the river bed and out onto the beach for a southerly view of The Nut.
The kids loved the chairlift up to the top of The Nut and we had a very windy walk once up there. Later in the day we had a look through the original house built for the caretaker of the Van Diemans Land Co's settlement.
Tim's great grandfather was buried near Stanley at Wynyard and so after scouring the wrong cemetery for a while, we found the right cemetery and then the gravestone. It was amazing really, his great grandparents and great great grandparents were all there on two tombstones.
On the way back from Wynyard we did a few walks in the Rocky Cape National Park. It was a cold, wet and windy day but we weren't going to let that stop us!