It was time to conquer the Nut.

There’s a chair lift you can ride up and down from the base to the top.

Unfortunately we missed the closing time by like five minutes.

So we started climbing the zig-zag track to the top. The Nut, by the way, is 143m high. (That’s 469ft.) It wasn’t easy, but my grumbling about the damn chair lift soon faded in the face of the amazing view.

The Nut is a state reserve, and there’s a nice walking track (2.3km) around the top with plenty of lookouts.

That’s our guesthouse the VDL Stanley down there in the middle!

Where’s the beach, Mr Snook? THE BEACH IS THATAWAY.

He went nuts with the tilt shift mode again.

Even without the tilt shift, I decided that Stanley has officially supplanted Kiama in my list of Cutest Towns in Australia. Seriously, I loved it. I told Rodd that we need to retire there someday.

Panorama from one of the lookouts.

It literally could not have been prettier. Oh, and did I mention that there’s a colony of fairy penguins at the base of the Nut? We didn’t see them, but you can see them come up onto the beach at dusk.

For dinner, we went to the Stanley Hotel Bistro, which was very popular with the locals. It was pub food, but it was done beautifully with lots of local ingredients.

Rodd had the fillet of ocean trout…

While I had venison sausages from King’s Feast in Ulverstone.

After dinner, we walked back along the water’s edge to take some photos of the harbour and our guesthouse at dusk.

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