We were now officially “Tassie bushwalkers.” If you are an outdoors person (and even if you aren’t), I can’t encourage you enough to visit Tasmania with its national parks and beautiful Tasman Peninsula. It is a laid-back island with friendly people and there are cycling holidays, walks, treks (both coastal and mountainous), little steam railways, [...]
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Hobart, Tasmania And The Overland Track Was Over
April 9th, 2007 
Sheila Simkin 
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Windy Ridge and Lake St. Clair on The Overland Track in Tasmania
April 8th, 2007 Sheila Simkin Two very long days…first the way to Windy Ridge Hut, past Cathedral Mountain with beautiful views everywhere. Today, we actually ran into a few Freedom Walkers who were very impressed that we were staying in the lap of luxury (a cabin), while they roughed it in the adequate, but occasionally rat-infested, huts (all part of [...]
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Pelion Hut and Windy Ridge on The Overland Track, Tasmania
April 7th, 2007 Sheila Simkin The weather held clear! Today’s walk was primarily through rainforest with a stop at Frog Flats, the headwaters to the Forth River. It seemed like such a short distance when we looked at the track map – only about 10km’s, but took more than four hours. Once we reached Pelion Hut, the next day would [...]
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Barn Bluff Hut to Pine Forest Moor Hut on The Overland Track, Tasmania
April 6th, 2007 Sheila Simkin It was a beautiful day heading out across Sedgeland Moors with its glacial lakes. I had read about moors for years but never really realized exactly what a moor is. (Healthcliff, where are you…) A moor is an area of peaty wasteland, where drainage is poor. Or a bog which is wet, spongy ground. In [...]
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Beginning The Overland Track in Tasmania
April 5th, 2007 Sheila Simkin Cradle Mountain didn’t look too bad from where we were standing. It was sunny…the mountain was off in the distance, and the terrain looked flat in front of it. There was a beautiful lodge by the parking lot, and lots of tourists opt to stay there and do some day hikes around the area. It [...]
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Arriving in Launceston, Tasmania
April 4th, 2007 Sheila Simkin Cradle Huts sent detailed information, a gear check list and Launceston was the meeting place. Launceston is a small city (approximately 103,000) in the North of Tasmania. It is the second largest city in Tasmania after Hobart (the State capital). A very small, provincial city with friendly people. We settled in at the Penny Royal [...]
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Planning The Cradle Mountain Trek, Tasmania
April 3rd, 2007 Sheila Simkin There were (and still are) only two options for the Cradle Mountain Overland Track Walk – as a Freedom Walker or part of a guided tour. If you decide to book as a Freedom Walker (independently), you can camp or use the bushwalker’s huts, located at each of the five overnight stops on the Overland [...]
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Trekking In Tasmania
April 2nd, 2007 Sheila Simkin I read everything – newspapers, fashion magazines (though you wouldn’t know it looking at my travel photos), National Geographic, Outside Magazine (to name just some) and one day ran across a sentence stating….”Cradle Mountain, Tasmania is one of the finest treks in the World.” Tasmania? All I knew about Tasmania was the Tasmanian Devil in [...]
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