Freycinet day 2

This morning we got up to find that the weather was miserable. Raining and fog so thick you couldn't see the other side of Coles Bay from the lodge. Going to the top of Mount Amos was out of the question because of the rain (the rocks were too slippery when wet) and even if we did, we wouldn't see past the trees. We had some breakfast, went to the visitor's center to see what our options were. After realizing that almost everything was going to be fogged in, we decided to chill. We went back to the room, set up a home theater, and watched Meet the Robinsons on the laptop. We both liked it a lot. We didn't have any popcorn, but we improvised eating Rice Bubbles out of wineglasses. After that movie, we tried to watch The Hit, which was so awful, we could get past the opening credits. Then we tried watching The Simpsons, but I don't think we had the movie. It seemed like a number of individual episodes strung together. If it was the Simpsons movie, then it was awful. There was no plotline to follow. In one second, Bart's fighting Principal Skinner and the next Homer is in the army. We gave up watching about 30 minutes into it and got in bed. I napped while D read her book.

In the afternoon, the rain seemed to be stopping so we decided to drive around and see if any hikes were worth doing. We drove to the beginning of the Wineglass Bay Lookout hike (which we both want to do badly) and met some folks who had just returned. I asked "Is it worth it?" She responded "It depends what you're looking for. If you want to see some cool rocks and trees along the path, it's great. If you want to see anything else, don't bother." So we decided it probably wasn't worth the effort of a 1.5 hr return hike to see nothing. So we drove out to the lighthouse on the ocean side of the peninsula. All we saw was straight down the cliff faces to the ocean below, but the views were pretty much gray. We took a video to prove it.

After that trek, we stopped at Sleepy bay on the way back from the lighthouse. It was gray and raining again by this point, but amazingly we saw a bride, groom, bridesmaid, flower girl, and photographer. They were taking pictures in the rain in front of some nice scenery. The fog had let up just enough to see some cool rock cliffs so we spent about an hour hiking around the area, including a secret path that a local informed us about while we were there. It wasn't so great, but gave us a different perspective and it was fun exploring.

We were drenched so we got home, changed, and drove to the Edge of the Bay restaurant for dinner. We got there at 5:30 and they weren't ready for guests. Evidently they didn't start cooking until 6:30, go figure. So we drove back into Coles Bay and ate some decent burgers at Jus Food. 2 burgers and 3 drinks for less than $20, not so bad.

After dinner, we went back to the cabin and watched Live Free or Die Hard. We both enjoyed it. After discussing plans for Sunday, we're getting in bed and watching Evan Almighty before crashing.