We only walked 18 Kays with a total climb of around 180 mtrs and the highest point being 100 mtrs. We took too many luxuries hence our packs were too heavy but luckily in the overall scheme of things it was still easy enough but at the same time was just hard enough given our lack of hiking fitness to teach us some lessons.
All these photos are taken with our phones so no quality DSLR photography I'm afraid.
Our day started at the Narawntapu NP visitor centre were we purchased our 2 year Tassie parks pass.
We set off just before lunch soon after arriving at the wetlands area.
Only about one kay or so down the track we left our packs briefly and took a detour to the top of Archers Knob.
Michelle will kill me for posting a pic her looking 'dorky' as she puts it LOL
Its not a difficult climb so it was worth the extra effort to get the views over looking 'springlawn', Bakers Beach and Badgers head in the opposite direction.
We then headed back down to sea level and made our way to the heads where we had lunch before going to the cove.
But not before we saw several snakes, with this little fella staying still long enough to grab a pic. I have lived in Tassie most of my life and seen plenty of snakes before but never have I seen them in trees like they were on this walk. It really made keep an eye out when the vegetation was over our heads!
On the way up I snapped some pics looking back towards Bakers Beach and of the terrain in general to give an idea to anyone wanting to do this walk a small idea of what its like
And we start to descend into Copper Cove
Once at Copper Cove there is a little stream that has fresh water, although we didnt need as we took plenty of water. I went for a bit of an explore up the stream but its getting very overgrown and I wasnt keen on annoying too many snakes!
After quite a bit of searching we finally found the little makeshift camp site it was a beautiful place to set up camp for the night. Thanks to a member on here for her very good information, without we wouldnt have found the camp site.
So here are some pics of our very secluded camp site for the night and some our little set up
We spent the rest of the day looking around the heads and generally messing around on the beach.
We didnt sleep very well because both our mats have holes in them so we were on very hard beds! But we got enough sleep and got up early and set off back over the heads to walk back out.
We had a little bit of a shower overnight so the tracks were not as dry.
Once we were back on the beach we decided to continue our walk back along the beach as opposed to doing the inland bush walk for a change of scenery.
It was hard packed and very easy going.
And a final pic half way along the beach looking back across the heads we looked at the day before.
So yeh thats about it. Pretty easy and enjoyable walk. I think our total walking time was only about 5 hours or so. We took too much weight. To many clothes we didnt use, too much food we didnt eat, too much water we didnt have to take. Too much celebratory alcohol that we consumed
Books, magazines and several other items in hindsight that we simply didnt need. I think my packs starting weight was around 18 or so kilos when realistically it could have been 12-13 and likewise Michelles was 12 kilos and could have been closer to 10. But lesson learnt.We are really looking forward to doing some more day walks with the kids and enticing them to do the odd overnight or multi day walk.
There were heaps of what i thought were snake trails in the sandy track, but didn't mention that. I certainly wasn't looking in the trees!
