After breakfast, packing up our things, and having a chat to the owners of our accommodation (incidentally, it’s on the market for $895,000) we set off to visit the information center to get a map or two.
The very helpful lady pointed us on the way, and told us that as we were seniors, we would not have to pay the usual $24 for entry to the National Parks.

Our first stop was the

where we enjoyed our morning coffee.   Moving onto Coles Bay where the views are lovely and there is more red lichen on the rocks.    We drove into the Freycinet National Park, where the visitors center was extremely busy with lots of young fit people buying passes.   Most of them seemed to be prepared to do the 45 minute one-way walk to the lookout overlooking Wine Glass Bay, but that was beyond us.  We were content to do the Cape Tourville Walk, which was much shorter , and rewarded us with some magnificent views.

We drove onto Swansea, and found our accommodation for the night, Schouten House.  This is a traditional bed and breakfast, built in 1844, and listed as a building of historical significance with the National Trust and Tasmanian Heritage Register.  It was one of the first built in Swansea, originally as an inn.  Our room is on the first floor, and the stairs are steep and narrow and not easy to negotiate.  

After settling in, we went to the town and enjoyed both the military museum and the historical museum. Whilst we were there , I found this information about Thomas Large, who actually had been living at  Schouten  House prior prior to this tragedy. 

Dinner was the seafood chowder we had seen on lots of menus, it was delicious, and the restaurant by the name of Saltshakers that we ate at,  was so busy they were turning away customers.