Nuts and More!

happy holidays~ 

we finally made a trip up to burnie! yay! so don't bug me anymore huh! hahaha! jkjk!

it was a good trip up! Good music, snacks and thankfully it wasn't raining at all even though it was gloomy all day! 

On the way up! 

we took a short break at their place just to say hi etc. and then after an extra hour's drive from their place, we reached The Nut @ Stanley! 

The first European to see "The Nut" was Matthew Flinders who in 1798 recorded that he had seen a "cliffy round lump resembling a Christmas Cake". 

There is a plaque at the lookout on the southern side of Sawyer Bay. It reads: "The Nut, discovered by Bass and Flinders in 1798, rises abruptly 143 m from the sea to a flattish top. The geological survey of Tasmania has confirmed that The Nut is the stump of an old volcano. The original core was built of fragments mainly volcanic rock ejected by explosive eruptions. Molten basaltic lava welled up the feeder pipe and in places intruded into these fragmental rocks and formed a lava lake in the crater where it solidified. As it cooled the basalt became weakly magnetised in the direction of the local magnetic field of that time. The direction and dip of this fossil magnetisation is quite different from the present magnetic field and suggests that the volcano was active during some period between 25 and 70 million years ago. Weathering and erosion since has removed all the weak rocks which built the cone so that the hard basalt of the lava pool now stands up as a conspicuous landmark. If you modelled a cone and crater in sand and half filled the crater with molten iron through a pipe from below then jetted the sand away with a hose you would get the picture." 

 us 1/3 up the Nut. Tiring steep slope. Ugh.

we finally reached the top and we were basically taking photos and camwhoring everywhere. :) that's what we do best! 

the Nut from the distance. Byeeee~. we spent the night at their place. thankfully sha7's friend is christ1na's housemate so we basically crashed their place. :) had yummy mapo tofu and beef bulgogi cooked specially by christ1na and joelene! thanks girls! darr3n had DEM shift but luckily i saw him before he left for his shift earlier that afternoon.

we left pretty early the next day because we had to go back and finish up our work! why? because we're going to sydney on wed! which means chop chop finish work then can go! :D

on the way back from burnie, we stopped by lillico beach. which is basically a cobblestone beach? mum said it looks dirty and ugly. hahaha! 

who needs a bag of pebbles from ikea when u get a beach full of them?! 

HAH. self-explanatory. 

stopped by ashgrov3 cheese on the way back! bought some interesting cheese like wasabi cheese! picture's still in my camera. will upload it once i get it out. 

and that concludes my very short trip up to burnie with a nice yummy cup of cappuccino!