Overland Track, Tasmania

January 2016

 

 

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Day 1 – Cradle Mountain to Waterfall Valley

 

Let the trek begin…

 

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Marion’s lookout…

 

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Crater Lake…

 

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Cradle Mountain…

 

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Cushion plant…

 

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Kitchen hut. Note the higher door for high snow level…

 

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Climbing to the top of Cradle Mountain…

 

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At the summit of Cradle Mountain…

 

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Bennett’s wallaby…

 

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Day 2 – Waterfall Valley to Lake Windermere

 

Barn Bluff…

 

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Lunch stop on the shore of Lake Will…

 

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…and its cooling waters …

 

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Lake Windermere in the distance, our next camp site…

 

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Clean at last in Lake Windermere…

 

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Day 3 – Lake Windermere to New Pelion

 

 

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The cute apple-berries…

 

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Our group at a lunch stop…

 

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Day 4 – New Pelion to Kia Ora

 

 

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Our last view of Cradle Mountain from the saddle at Pelion Gap near Mount Ossa…

 

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Climbing up Mount Ossa…

 

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The top of Mount Ossa, 1617m above sea level…

 

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Sully at the very top…

 

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Mountains in every direction…

 

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Day 5 – Kia Ora to Bert Nichols (Windy Ridge)

 

 

Du Cane Hut, once home to Paddy Hartnett the bowler-hatted pioneer…

 

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Another refreshing (and bitterly cold) swim at Hartnett Falls…

 

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Day 6 (last day) – Bert Nichols (Windy Ridge) to Lake St Clair

 

 

 

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Waiting for the ferry at the end of the trek at the top of Lake St Clair…

 

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