Brrrrrrr! It was FREEZING last night! The radio said it was -2°, but when we woke up at about 9am this morning and looked out of the window, the sun was shining and the sky was blue (although we could still see the snow capped mountains so we knew it wasn't warm out).
We had our breakfast and did some more washing before heading into town. We started by going into the Coaltown Museum, which is a pioneer museum, showing how things were done around this are over the last 100 or so years.
When we'd finished in the museum we drove into the centre and then out to the coast, to a place called Cape Foulwind. It's called this because the weather can cause a really rough tide and Captain Cook once took a whole week trying to land his ship here. Today however, the weather was stunning and the whole place looked really peaceful. We were able to walk all along the coastal path, up to and around a lighthouse and on further.
After almost an hour of walking, we climbed back into the van and Nikki cooked us some lunch on the little stove in the back of the van. We had a nice fry-up, which went down a treat. When we'd finished our food and I'd washed the dishes, we drove on down the coast to a seal colony. The sun was starting to go down now and so we were able to stand and take pictures of the seals and the sunset... which was beautiful!
Tonight we found ourselves a camp in Charleston (the next town along) and after setting the van up we went out to the pub, where me and Nikki drank beer, chatted and played pool and darts next to a lovely wood fire.
We could do with a wood fire in the van - it's gonna be another cold one tonight!
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I've had foul wind all week. My veggie diet maybe!
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