Well, it wasn’t to be. The whole resort just wasn’t quite right. In the movie Shrek, he goes to the village Duloc, where everything is just absolutely perfect, but nothing is actually right. The more time we spent in the resort village, the stronger we saw the likeness.
I think it must have been built by a project manager – it had everything that a resort should have - all boxes ticked. But nothing was actually right. The playground was broken, and not maintained. The boats were dirty and smelly, and, really, not the right kind of boats.
Tali was not having fun here, as I think you can see. Everything was really expensive. But the mini-golf was ok.
The kids did get another swim, but in the end we bugged out – it just wasn’t worth it. As we were leaving, I spotted something that summarized the whole experience for me. The toilet had a button that you turned to flush the toilet. Under it was a sign that said “Push”. And to top it all, we lost the key to our chalet.
We won’t be going back. And we don’t recommend this place.
We made our way to the head of the Tamar Valley. I had thought it was possible that some of the roads we wanted may have been closed by the bushfire, but it was well under control and we had no problems. At the head of the Tamar River, we went to Sea Horse World.
This was pretty interesting. They farm sea horses here, for research and sale as pets. Highly worth a visit – they are strange and interesting beasts. In this photo, there’s a bunch of pregnant sea horses.
(No flashes allowed). The pregnant ones with the big swollen bellies are the males. They give birth to thousands of young, which take about 6 months to grow to full size.
From here, we made our way to Devonport, ready for the boat trip home, and Kath went shopping for a digital camera for Melyssa. Surprise – it’s Cup Day, and all the shops in Devonport are shut. Fortunately, except for the chain stores, so we could still get Melyssa’s birthday present for the next day.
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