Overland Track, Tasmania
January 2016
Day 1 – Cradle Mountain to Waterfall Valley
Let the trek begin…
Marion’s lookout…
Crater Lake…
Cradle Mountain…
Cushion plant…
Kitchen hut. Note the higher door for
high snow level…
Climbing to the top of
Cradle Mountain…
At the summit of Cradle
Mountain…
Bennett’s wallaby…
Day 2 – Waterfall Valley to Lake Windermere
Barn Bluff…
Lunch stop on the shore
of Lake Will…
…and its cooling waters …
Lake Windermere in the
distance, our next camp site…
Clean at last in Lake
Windermere…
Day 3 – Lake Windermere to New Pelion
The cute apple-berries…
Our group at a lunch
stop…
Day 4 – New Pelion to Kia Ora
Our last view of Cradle
Mountain from the saddle at Pelion Gap near Mount Ossa…
Climbing up Mount Ossa…
The top of Mount Ossa, 1617m
above sea level…
Sully at the very top…
Mountains in every
direction…
Day 5 – Kia Ora to Bert Nichols (Windy Ridge)
Du Cane Hut, once home to
Paddy Hartnett the bowler-hatted pioneer…
Another refreshing (and
bitterly cold) swim at Hartnett Falls…
Day 6 (last day) – Bert Nichols (Windy Ridge) to Lake
St Clair
Waiting for the ferry at
the end of the trek at the top of Lake St Clair…
