Latrobe 21 November 2007

Left in the morning and drove a whole 10km to Latrobe, a pretty little village, where we spent the day!
We had intended to keep heading towards Exeter; however we had such a great time we decided to stay the night just behind the main street in a large paddock overlooking lush green paddocks. We stumbled across the most amazing shop which, Tardis-like, kept on growing and we soon became lost in the multiple of fantasy rooms full of character dolls and amazing toys. It’s a shop that could be on a travel show. They told us that they don’t advertise and rely on word of mouth. SO! We are telling you – go see a shop where they meet you at the door with a map and a chocolate!
Drove down the creek to catch some platypi – alas we didn’t see SES mascot Paddy - but we did see a number of the shy platypi diving for food. A fisherman explained what to look out for and, sure enough, we found them. The magic was the trail of bubbles after their dive indicating the next emergence. They have a lovely dipping dive to finish off their little surface swim. The Tassie ones are very small. We think they might be half the size of mainland ones???