Chapel downstairs, school room upstairs

Inside Chapel - Highfield Historic Site

White horse, cattle, dead tree, The Nut and Bass Strait

Duck (lunch) hiding under bushes - Highfield Historic Site

The Nut(Circular Hill) and Stanley from Highfield Historic Site

Grave of Henry Hellyer - surveyor who committed suicide in 1832

Time to take the chairlift up to the top of the Nut

Looking back at Stanley from the chairlift

The variation of grasses and bush were great

That's our caravan (see it?) - Caravan Park Stanley

Looking towards Stanley Wharf from the Nut

Looking at Highfield Historic Site from the Nut

They dynamited this cliff but it took 12 years to fall

Spectacular view from the top of The Nut

We walked all the way around the top of Circular Hill (The Nut)

And after some forty five minutes we were back at the chairlift

And heading down the hill - what a super walk

Not Hard Rock - Nut Rock Cafe Stanley

We then strolled the town of Stanley, past the Discovery Museum

Along the main street of Stanley

Past the Stanley Hotel which was established in 1847

We walked past beautiful cottages and gardens in Stanley

Quite quaint, some of these cottages

And this is the cottage where Prime Minister Joe Lyons was born

Joe Lyons was born in 1879 and was Prime Minister 1932 to 1939

The big Rock Lobster - Stanley

Devine Mercy Stone - Stanley

Steel hulled fishing trawler being rebuilt - Stanley

We went to Dip River Rainforest to see the Big Tree

Information on the Big Tree

Carol is dwarfed by this magnificent old tree

The Big Tree - 62 metres tall

One of the root corners on the Big Tree

This was another huge tree that just fell over - Dip River

Fungus and moss - delicious

More information on the Big Tree at Dip River

What a perfect setting the Dip River Rainforest is

Trees covered in moss and fungi

Next stop - 157 steps down to Dip Falls

Dip Falls

What makes Dip Falls special - hexagonal basalt formations

Like these hexagonal basalt formations

Dip Falls does make you want to smile

Dip Falls - see the hexagonal basalt formations

3pm and we are ready to visit a Seal Colony off Stanley

Looking back at Circular Head (the Nut) from our boat

Our first look at the seals on this rock island

Lots of Seals, White Breasted Kormorants and huge Pacific Gulls

We circled the Seal colony four or five times

Seals frollicked in Bass Strait off Stanley behind the Nut