2/16/15 Cradle Mountain

We packed up the car after breakfast and headed for Cradle Mountain.  We went along many winding roads with hairpin turns and ran into a big traffic jam at one point (about a thousand sheep)!  We were exhausted by the time we got there.  Dave stayed to take a much needed nap while the rest of us walked from our accommodations to the visitor center (enough of the car already) and grabbed the shuttle bus to see the mountain at Dove Lake.  The mountain was lovely.  Lana wanted to go back to the visitor center, but John and I opted to take a short walk through the pencil pine rain forest.  We all met up at the cabins and shortly after went down the road for dinner at Peppers.   On the way, we stopped to take pictures of a wallaby.  After dinner we walked out to the pond to see if we could see a platypus, but they were all in hiding.  On the way back to our cabins, however, we stopped to take pictures of a mother wombat and her very shy baby - very cute.  There was a kookaburra outside of our back porch, but he flew off before I could get him in focus - drats!  We heard there were echidnas around, but we didn't see any.  I will put some pix on after I write the next blog as there was no wifi at our cabins.