Ulverstone – Penguin - Burnie

Had a walk around Ulverstone and enjoyed a coffee at a café. Quite a nice little town. Lots of lovely wooden houses and a great park on the waterfront. Not sure what the deal is but there are huge monuments to all naval boats of Australia’s past. Lots of memorials etc. Also one to Nuff Nuff – a local prostitute in Sydney who served the navy very well apparently. A strange but interesting inclusion into the solemn but lovely park.

Next we headed to Penguin – what a cute name for a town. This place was lovely because you passed lots of rocks out into the water that made a lovely spectacle to look at. The bay was quite large and protected. The winds had been bad all day, but in Penguin they picked up and nearly carted us away. We stopped for pancakes at the local church and then a pie at the bakery for sale. There were some great buildings in town and we found an ideal place for my soup kitchen. Trying to talk Kerry Jennings into coming in with us in a book café (with my soup kitchen). Haven’t managed to convince her as yet! :-)

Penguin Goal!

Happy Mr & Mrs Cow - will you check out their view!

Great spot and very friendly locals. No large plots of land for sale around the town though. You could by 5 acres in Penguin for the same price as 100 acres about 50kms away! Amazing price variations between the ocean (bigger towns) and inland (crappy roads).

Next we moved on to Burnie. Still the horrible place we visited last time, only this time the wood chip pile almost blocked daylight from entering the town it was so huge, and they charged the same parking rates ALL around the town as Hobart – so surprising. We couldn’t believe a small town could have such an attitude. We tried to go to the movies but we weren’t going to spend another $3 more on parking – even if we could find a spot. Crazy! We left as soon as we could find the exit.