Bushwalk Australia

Hi all you Taswiegians!

Im about to come down on a very brief tassie trip and will be trying to sight as much of the forest and different areas in the small amount of time that I have - ill have free time to do day walks from the 16th to the 19th of April and obviously ill be spending a day in Cradle Mountain NP but id also like to see the Tarkine and/or some of the coastal environs too - what im asking is for some ideas/advice or sample itineraries from all you locals!

Thanks so much! Ill be traveling out of Hobart BTW.

From Hobart, the Tasman Peninsular has some of the best coastal scenery going, Cape Hauy or Raoul walks.
Freycinet could be visited on the way to Cradle.
Mt Field has great walks in forest/waterfalls, nice sub alpine and alpine walks from Lake Dobson.

oh man- where to start?

The Tarkine is about as far from Hobart as you can get and still stay on Tassie. I'd consider Step's advice and consider a day at Cradle and a day at Tasman Peninsula. It's awesome there. Spend the $$$ on a Rob Pennicott boat tour, then do one of the Cape Walks.

Short Visit to Tassie & would love to go out on some walks!

I know how that feels. Worked out of Melbourne yesterday and dropped into North Tassie for a grand total of 25 minutes before leaving again. For 25 mins I was on Tassie soil I couldn't get bushwalking out of my mind - and it was only 8 weeks ago I did a week of hiking down there!

God I love that place.

South_Aussie_Hiker wrote:

Short Visit to Tassie & would love to go out on some walks!

I know how that feels. Worked out of Melbourne yesterday and dropped into North Tassie for a grand total of 25 minutes before leaving again. For 25 mins I was on Tassie soil I couldn't get bushwalking out of my mind - and it was only 8 weeks ago I did a week of hiking down there!

God I love that place.

Must suck being a mainlander

The east coast is great and has the warmest weather in the state, freycinet and bay of fires are some of the best coastal scenery you will come across. There is a forest reserve called 'evercreech' near the east coast, it has the tallest white gums in the world but you also get to see plenty of the disgusting side of forestry to get there!! A trip over the central plateau past the great lake is interesting too with it's sub alpine landscape, and there are a couple of shorter hills to climb which are signposted at the start (Projection Bluff and Quamby Bluff). Cradle speaks for itself! Derwent Bridge has a few marked routes in the heart of the mountains. Sunrise or sunset from the top of Mt Wellington on Hobart. It would be easy to go on all day, and I hope the weather is good for you so you want to come back and see more, and then again and see more. There is just so much of the state to see and the best places you need to walk to

If you're definitely heading to Cradle I'd concentrate on that area rather than spend the time driving. On that, beware the travel times (and local advice at times is shockingly bad... it doesn't take two days to drive from the Tarkine to Hobart but it chews up most of a day)

Presuming your starting out from Hobart, its essentially a day trip to Cradle (consider a short walk at either Lake St Clair or theres a couple of trailheads where you can walk out into the Franklin or save it for when you're at Cradle and do a quick circuit of Dove Lake).

You can easily spend two days on the network of tracks there - check out the info centre - Marion's Lookout and around the Face Track or back via Crater Lake on one day and then Lake Rodway and Twisted Lake on the second would be my recommendation.

Come back via Sheffield / Deloraine - there's a couple of short walks in that area for the return drive. Check out a booklet PWS puts out called 50 Short Walks (or something like that)

You've missed the best of the long daylight hours this time of year - daylight saving has finished and the days are getting noticeably shorter

Head down the Channel and do Hartz. It's an easy half day walk in an absolute gem of an area.