Sunday 5th May 2019
A lovely peaceful night in the South Bruny National Park. We headed out for our walk on the Labilladiere Circuit (18km) at about 9am. Suggested time was 5.5-6.5 hours. Let’s see how we go today, at least it isn’t raining at the moment. It is overcast and cool, but not cold and wet. Yay!
The hike goes all the way around the peninsula. It was very similar to walks at home and I am sure it would have been a lot prettier had the sun been shining and the sky been blue. Oh well you can’t have everything. We finished about 2pm after stopping for morning tea and lunch. It was all in all a pleasant walk.
We then drove to Cape Bruny Light Station. It is the second oldest extant lighthouse tower in Australia, as well as having the longest (158 years) history of being continuously manned. It was first lit in March 1838 and was eventually decommissioned on 6 August 1996. This as always presented spectacular views.
After the lighthouse we drove to Cloudy Bay and then to our next home for the night. We are still on South Bruny Island at Adventure Bay. It is quite cool tonight.
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- Our camp in South Bruny National Park. The chairs, table and gazebo got their first use last night.
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- The start of the Labilladiere circuit track. The day was looking quite nice.
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- Some footprints. Is it a devil? This is always the question on DBs lips.
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- Some unusual scats. Always peeking David’s interest.
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- The scenery along the way..
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- ..as always I add to the tower..
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- ..David looking along the coastline.
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- Bennett’s Wallaby
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- More scenery along the way. ..
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- ..It was nice to see the coastline as the first 6 or 7 km was in scrubland..
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- Yellow tailed black cockatoo, we also saw scarlet robins and New Holland Honeyeater, hooded plover and seagulls on steroids
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- More coastline along the way..
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- .. a pretty shell..
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- ..a nice beach..
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- ..a nice cove..
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- The inside track was a little wet..
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- ..David took one for the team as I didn’t get anywhere near as wet as him as I followed down the track.
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- Atlantic Salmon farms
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- Scrubland along the way
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- Time for lunch.
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- A nice cove again..
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- A stroll along the beach..
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- A nice little corner..
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- Cape Brunt Light Station.
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- ..There were rabbits everywhere..
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- Just what you need after an 18km walk. A climb up to the lighthouse.
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- View from the lighthouse.
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- As always a beautiful view..
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- ..and again a 360° view
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- Cloudy Bay, it was cold and dreary and this guy was coming back down the track from a surf.
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- Cloudy Bay
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- Little walk from Cloudy Bay along Whalebone Point
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- View from inside the toilets at Cloudy Bay
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- Some fungi for today. There was some on our long walk but not much.
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- Today’s route – 26km of walking and 53km of driving.
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- The Labilladiere circuit, South Bruny National Park
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- Where we are in relation to mainland Tasmania