Birthday Boy 30th June 2007

Woke up with sore heads but that's OK its my birthday. Cos its the end of June I never had a bad weather on this day. Always sunny and BBQ weather. So we woke up to a frosty and misty morning. Got in the car and drove west towards Cradle Mountain. We drove down a road that changed into a track until we got to Liffey falls. We walked through the rain forest to where we saw a large cliff face with a nice waterfall. As its my birthday I climbed over a fence and on to the rocks near the falls for a photo. On our way down to the falls we saw a wallaby just standing on the path. Hannah was surprised to see it and jumped which scared the wallaby sending it jumping as fast as it could into the forest.
We then drove on to Mole creek, home of the Solomons caves and Marakoopa caves. Large stalagmite and stalactite caves. Which we also home to the glow worms. Before we ventured in to the caves we stopped at a honey farm to taste the honey but it was closed because its Saturday. So we took funny pictures of Hannah and I with those boards you stick your face through a hole. So we were the queen bee, but with our faces. A bit of a laugh for us.
Inside the caves we saw loads of stuff, but the best thing was when we stopped in a chamber and the guide turned the lights off and the next thing we could see was thousands of green flashing lights about 5 meters above us, which were the glow worms. Really cool to see them.
The weather changed from the morning mist to glorious sun shine as we drove from Mole Creek to Cradle mountain. We had the window open until we reach the border of the mountains when it started to rain and then sleet.
We visited the tourist information for a place for the night and they gave us 3 places. The first was full and the second was really nice but cost about 80-120 pounds a night. Way out of our price range, but then we found a really nice place with cabins. They let was have a family cabin for the price of a normal one, as this was all they had left. We got inside to a freezing place, because all the windows were open and its started to snow. I've never had snow for my birthday before and loved it. We stuck on all the heaters and the cooking rings to warm up the cabin and then headed out to the local tavern for some food. Had a really nice meal with a massive log fire burning in the middle of the tavern to keep everyone warm.
After the meal we decided to drive back to the cabin as the snow was getting thicker and we had a reasonably steep driveway to get up without snow tyres on the car. We videoed the view from the car as we drove along the white road and as we tried to get up the drive. We got about half way up and we saw skid marks from other cars and decided to keep going but go get more grip we jumped up and down in our seats to make the car bounce. We got up no problem and stopped off at the reception's bar to get a few beers and a bottle of vine to take back to our cabin in the snow.