We woke in time for breakfast, which also included a bunch of wallabies coming onto the lawn near the breakfast table to savage. We were lucky enough to even have a cassowary drop by! Breakfast itself was lovely, shared with other guests and our Bed and Breakfast hosts. We exchanged tips on what to see along the coast and then had to rush off. Yesterday we managed to still secure tickets to see a working chocolate farm, including a chocolate tasting.

We arrived at Charleys chocolate a few minutes early for the tour. Initially it seemed pretty poorly organised, but as soon as it got going it was a riveting ride. I don’t mind telling you that this tour was the third best thing of this trip, directly after holding turtle eggs and diving the great barrier reef. It was entertaining and informative. Did you know that chocolate can only grow in super specific conditions? Did you know it used to be used as a currency? Did you know that adding milk to it was a relatively new invention? Did you know you could make chocolate tea from the husks of the bean? Well now you know some of the things I remembered from the tour. If you are ever in the area, clean your trip around making it to one of their tours, our timing was dumb luck – they are not open for tours every day and do book out.

Lunch was included, so we headed off with a box of chocolate and a full stomach. Not being sure what to do next, we decided to face our fears and go swimming at a watering hole called Alligators nest. No kidding. A SWIMMING hole called ALLIGATORS NEST…

Well, it turns out that its named after a local scout group, and generally a great place…  Although they do have warning signs about these buggers and no information on how to avoid them….

None the less we went for a bit of a splash about and even explored “upriver” for a bit.

On the way back we decided to have a little fun as the path took us across a tiny river.  With enough speed it looked a bit more impressive though 😁

We really wanted to have a nice dinner, so decided to head to the local town. We settle on pizza and we found the best pizza we ever had. We both ate way too much, but it was really REALLY good. The place is called Peppervine, and Manja and I agree this was the best food in our entire trip! (Though the pizza near armies was pretty good too!)

We walked off the pizza along the beach, which turned out to be Dawsons Creek (!), before driving back to our accommodation for some rest.