Tasmanian Travel Blog - Day 8 - Tasmazia

calathea (51)in #travel • 7 years ago

Tasmania Day 8 - Tasmazia

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It’s been a long time since my last post. I’ve been back in Sydney and had to catch up with a fair bit of laundry! I’ve also been taking this opportunity to get my house in order, decluttering and rearranging things around the place.

Day 8 had us back on the road again, leaving Launceston and heading down inland.

Westbury

We took a slight detour through the town of Westbury, hoping to come across something interesting.

We were not disappointed.

The maze at Westbury was great fun. Parts of the maze had died back a bit so we got a discounted rate. We were given our green sticks to wave away spiderwebs and we dove in to the challenge. Everything looked the same.

There was only one other group in the maze, two kids who cheated and their aunt who was the first to find the centre of the maze. We took a considerably longer amount of time to find the centre, but it was quite rewarding.

Tasmazia and the Village of Lower Crockpot

After the break for the maze, we continued west, the cloud getting thicker and lower. The following image shows the tops of the electricity towers disappearing into the cloud -

Our destination was Tasmazia & The Village of Lower Crockpot. Tasmazia is home to several mazes and a model village.

The somewhat grumpy lady at the front desk took our money and gave us a very unhelpful map of the complex.

We entered the main maze, which worryingly warned us about the barbed wire in the walls of the maze. Already I was missing the creature comforts of the first maze. This maze, being higher, was also quite dark. The rain was misting us gently through our walk.

The maze was littered with dad jokes on little wooden signs. There were also various districts, and mazes within the maze.

There was a cage maze - which at one point had me thinking that we may be trapped in there forever (the lady at reception did not look like she would have saved us at the end of the day!) -, an “Irish maze” which was just a straight path, and a balance maze.

Once through the balance maze, you were in the model village, The Village of Lower Crockpot. Each building was about a metre or so high, each with their own little joke.

We entered the confusion maze, and I managed to find the centre before @forexbrokr. That being said, he did manage to find the exit before me. I did get a bit worried in that maze too.

Next to the model village was the “embassies” of various countries. We tried to seek shelter under some of the miniature monuments, without success (the spiders had already called dibs on those spots…).

We decided to seek refuge in the maze again, determined to find the middle.

Finally the Three Bears’ Cottage was before us and we had completed our objective. It was time to leave.

The Weather

We had a quick toastie in the cafe and headed back in the car. We headed to the Central North Coast, and I took some more photos of the gloomy scenery. Taken from the window of a car driving down a highway, these aren't my best works -