{"id":1343,"date":"2011-02-17T09:34:03","date_gmt":"2011-02-17T02:34:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lisaandtony.com\/?p=1343"},"modified":"2011-02-17T09:34:03","modified_gmt":"2011-02-17T02:34:03","slug":"cradle-mountain-national-park-tasmania","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/lisaandtony.com\/travelblog\/2011\/02\/17\/cradle-mountain-national-park-tasmania\/","title":{"rendered":"Cradle Mountain National Park, Tasmania"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Dove<\/a><\/p>\n

Total Miles Traveled:<\/strong> 56,577<\/p>\n

Cradle Mountain is a hikers mecca and is home to the Overland Track, one of the world\u2019s best multi-day (80km \/ 50 mi) walks. \u00a0We didn’t do the Overland Track, but there are plenty of beautiful day hikes in the area, like the one around Dove Lake (2 hrs)… see above and below.<\/p>\n

\"Cradle<\/a><\/p>\n

\"Cradle<\/a><\/p>\n

We also hiked along a forest… it reminded Tony of the forests featured in Lord of the Rings.<\/p>\n

\"Cradle<\/a><\/p>\n

\"Cradle<\/a><\/p>\n

<\/a>\"Cradle<\/a><\/p>\n

The favorite part of our stay in Cradle Mountain was seeing the wildlife. \u00a0Check out this shy wombat…<\/p>\n

\"Chasing<\/a><\/p>\n

\"Chasing<\/a><\/p>\n

We didn’t see any wallabies\u00a0in Bonorong Wildlife Park, so we very excited to see them in the wild. \u00a0Wallabies are basically Kangaroos with smaller ears. \u00a0This guy looked like he got caught with his hand in the cookie jar.<\/p>\n

\"Wallaby,<\/a><\/p>\n

On our second day, we did a 4 hour hike across Lake Lilla and Wombat Falls…. quite a cloudy morning.<\/p>\n

\"Lake<\/a><\/p>\n

Picture perfect sunset \/ moonrise…<\/p>\n

\"Cradle<\/a><\/p>\n

After two days of hiking, we drove to Launceston in the north central coast of Tasmania to stay a night before we started our journey to New Zealand. \u00a0We discovered a fantastic restaurant that you must try if you go: Stillwater Cafe. \u00a0The tasting menu is awesome and worth every penny of the steep price.<\/p>\n

\"Stillwater<\/a><\/p>\n

Here’s our raw, locally grown oyster dish. \u00a0We chose to have it 3 ways: \u00a0au naturale, “Thai style” with herbs (coriander, lemongrass, hot chili slices), and a shooter which had cucumber, mint, fresh-ground Tasmanian wasabi, rice vinegar. \u00a0Fantastic!<\/p>\n

\"Coles<\/a><\/p>\n

Well that’s it for Tasmania! \u00a0We loved out week here and we had barely scratched the surface. \u00a0Definitely lots to see and worth a visit if you have the time.<\/p>\n

Check out all out pics from Cradle Mountain:<\/p>\n

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Total Miles Traveled: 56,577 Cradle Mountain is a hikers mecca and is home to the Overland Track, one of the world\u2019s best multi-day (80km \/ 50 mi) walks. \u00a0We didn’t do the Overland Track, but there are plenty of beautiful day hikes in the area, like the one around Dove Lake (2 hrs)… see above […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[3],"tags":[28],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/lisaandtony.com\/travelblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1343"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/lisaandtony.com\/travelblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/lisaandtony.com\/travelblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/lisaandtony.com\/travelblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/lisaandtony.com\/travelblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1343"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/lisaandtony.com\/travelblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1343\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/lisaandtony.com\/travelblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1343"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/lisaandtony.com\/travelblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1343"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/lisaandtony.com\/travelblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1343"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}