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Tasmania specific bushwalking discussion. Please avoid publishing details of access to sensitive areas with no tracks.Re: Mt Bobs
Mon 21 Jan, 2013 10:31 pm
Bear in mind Rohan, the Farmhouse track and most down the SW are still closed due to the fires.
Re: Mt Bobs
Tue 22 Jan, 2013 6:37 pm
ILUVSWTAS wrote:Bear in mind Rohan, the Farmhouse track and most down the SW are still closed due to the fires.
Bugger! Oh well, that can wait until I'm down there permanently.
Re: Mt Bobs
Thu 24 Jan, 2013 5:00 am
FYI, I received an email from the walk coordinator yesterday morning advising he had spoken to Parks and that the Farmhouse Creek track is open again.
Re: Mt Bobs
Thu 24 Jan, 2013 6:53 am
Good news! Yes I hear everything is open except the Arthur plains.
Re: Mt Bobs
Fri 16 Jun, 2017 9:31 pm
Just noticed that Google Earth has an updated image of the Mt Bobs/Boomerang region, and Lake Sydney and its sink hole are much more clearly defined.
Re: Mt Bobs
Sat 29 Jul, 2017 11:43 am
That sinkhole (and the entire area) is a crazy place. Really unusual landscape.
Some may be interested in this pic of the sinkhole/Lake Sydney outlet taken early last year.
Looking south towards Mt Bobs, with the main creek/outlet from Lake Sydney coming in from the right of the picture.
Also FYI, when I was there last year, the track was VERY overgrown after the turnoff from the Farmhouse Creek track, and the climb up to that knoll was definitely Moss Ridge-esque
There is a stunning (and a bit spooky) King Billy Pine forest towards the top of the ridge. Really dark and open understory here means care has to be taken to locate the next pink tape before moving in order not to lose the track. The pine fronds all over the ground mean no discernible tracks on the ground to follow.
The descent into Lake Sydney was much easier, but there was lots and lots of mud on the valley floor, and not much in the way of track marking. It becomes quite tricky to pick the best way forwards in places (ie. which of the manifold muddy bog holes is the actual track). Ended up being a fairly long and hard day just to get to the lake. Rain and sleet didn't help
I would like to go back, but - as someone else mentioned - probably best done with a friend or as a group (and not in the sleet).
Some may be interested in this pic of the sinkhole/Lake Sydney outlet taken early last year.
- Lake Sydney outlet & Mt Bobs
Looking south towards Mt Bobs, with the main creek/outlet from Lake Sydney coming in from the right of the picture.
Also FYI, when I was there last year, the track was VERY overgrown after the turnoff from the Farmhouse Creek track, and the climb up to that knoll was definitely Moss Ridge-esque
There is a stunning (and a bit spooky) King Billy Pine forest towards the top of the ridge. Really dark and open understory here means care has to be taken to locate the next pink tape before moving in order not to lose the track. The pine fronds all over the ground mean no discernible tracks on the ground to follow.
The descent into Lake Sydney was much easier, but there was lots and lots of mud on the valley floor, and not much in the way of track marking. It becomes quite tricky to pick the best way forwards in places (ie. which of the manifold muddy bog holes is the actual track). Ended up being a fairly long and hard day just to get to the lake. Rain and sleet didn't help
I would like to go back, but - as someone else mentioned - probably best done with a friend or as a group (and not in the sleet).
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