4/7/10 Penguin & Burnie

Sunday morning and off to the weekly Penguin Markets… not like a cattle market where you might expect to purchase cattle, no penguins on sale… except for plastic or knitted ones that is. It is an indoor market with a range of stalls including plants, 2nd hand stuff, local artists and food. Walking into the little shop that sold wood carved items was great – the smell of Huon Pine is just wonderful!

In another wood shop, the kids were each given small cut out wooden animals to ‘go home and decorate’ said the lady running the stall. Her partner sat at a saw with a very thin blade and cut the animals out as we watched. Had a nice chunky chicken pie for early lunch before walking along the esplanade of Penguin where we came across numerous penguin rubbish bins, several fibreglass penguins including the ‘Big Penguin’ we’d photographed at sunrise the morning we’d arrived in Tassie.

The kids had a play in the playground before we drove back to Burnie. Kirsty, Nanna and Henry headed home, while we visited the visitor’s centre which is also known as ‘The Makers Workshop’ where we saw some intricately detailed papier-mache statues made by local artists, some paper products made from wombat and roo poo, an Elphinstone R1500 RHD loader which the kids loved to climb on, and a bunch of other locally made stuff!

We all enjoyed a lovely roast pork dinner followed by apple crumble at Kirsty’s tonight.