Bruny Island, Australia

When we had planned out our trip, Hobart was the only city about the middle of the trip that had an Aveda salon. It’s hard to find stylists that can cut curly hair, at least with the Aveda name there’s higher probability, plus Heather had her colour code from her stylist at home so it was easy to match the colour. So this morning Heather went to her cut-and-colour at De Stilj Hair, the local Aveda salon in Hobart.

In the meantime I went grocery shopping, as the next couple days we’re staying at an Airbnb. We’ll have a barbecue so I was looking for lamb. The favoured cut here seems to lamb shoulder so that’s what I went with. It was super cheap! $7 AUD.

Closer to noon I went to get the car from the carport. When we arrived a couple days ago at 9pm it was a 30-second drive; midday it took me 15 minutes to drive around to the front of the hotel.

Anyways it was much easier to pack up cause we weren’t taking a flight, so no concern about where liquids were packed and how many bags we had. Loaded up the SUV and we were off on our next adventure!

Followed google maps to get to the ferry to Bruny Island (not sure how we got around before iPhones). The ferry crossing was about 20 minutes and so smooth we didn’t even realize we had left!

Once on Bruny Island everyone makes the same stops - first lunch of fresh oysters at Get Shucked, then onto Bruny Island Cheese for groceries (wine, cheese, baguette, craft beer) and a coffee. Next to Bruny Island Honey for more groceries. Our last stop en route to our Airbnb on Adventure Bay was Bruny Island Raspberry but the season is a bit late this year :(

We finally arrived at the Airbnb and unpacked. That’s when we realized the place is surrounded by wildlife - dozens of wallabies grazed in the fields around us.

So I had the surreal experience of grilling lamb while wallabies munched away at the grass metres away from me. The wallabies just went about their eating ignoring me.

Dinner was excellent. The cheese folks only had one red varietal which was a Pinot noir but it went really well with the lamb. All the ingredients I had picked up earlier were tasty too. While we were eating Heather noticed a white wallaby bounding by! Supposedly these are hard to spot. It was a nice finale to the day.