Volume 2 "Tasmania"
Chapter 5 "J 139 - Wednesday, November 25"
The great day of Cradle Mountain! The clouds are gone overnight.
We parked the camper at the visitor center, requested some information on the different tracks and have chosen to achieve Marions Lookout. In addition, the visitor center we Madam certifies that if the weather remains unchanged, we will have a beautiful view.
8:45 Departure visitor center, walk away, while a bus deposits hikers at the base of the slopes. But we, we are courageous, we are down by our own means. So we followed the track overboard that led us from Marions Lookout circuit. It is 10:30.
Now we attack the real thing, but slowly. The path is flat and wooden, too easy. Except that it did not last. Rocks, steps, and boulders, rocks, re-marches, but all in a beautiful setting or the sun at its zenith shortly gently heats the atmosphere. A climb to offer the most beautiful landscapes. First, waterfalls and a small river, then a lake deep in the rocky mountains first, before gravire the last mountain of white rocks and reach the lookout, overlooking the Cradle Mountain. The last meters are practically climbing. Perspective on the magnificent national park, with lakes cons down, majestic mountains, or blends vegetation and rocks. The blue sky and sunshine do embellish the landscape completely crazy.
course, it's cold, it is at altitude (1080 m) and take a second sweater despite a rise in t-shirt becomes a spontaneous gesture.
Break banana.
we go again in the other direction, but even if it's more down faster, it is not easy. We not followed the path back that was to follow the same track as the driveway. Extension was the descent through "Wombat pool. Relaxing break beside a lake with your feet in the water. So nice (even with kids screaming hair has always will .. shit the youngsters).
Back to Start of tracks has 14.45, having crossed a few wombats again.
15h, departure of Cradle Valley, passing through Queenstown, a mining town in the middle of nowhere, and stop a shower Roseburry (or rather stop tap).
By late afternoon, we reached the south of Cradle Mountain-Lake St Clair National Park, Derwent, next to the Lake St. Clair. Identifying sites for the next morning and stop for the night near the base of the slopes.
Next time, we made "The Overland Track, Doriane eh? ( 89 terminals across the national park, in 4 to 6 days)
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