Trip To Tasmania day 12, Cradle Mountain and Waratah 18th March 2011
On our trip to Cradle Mountain from Wynyard, we went for a bit of a hike up onto some high ground to catch some early morning scenery:
Cradle Mountain, Lake St Clair, some amazing hiking around here.
Cradle Mountain, Lake St Clair, we are going back and do some of the bigger hikes this is just a taster
After leaving Cradle Mountain we decided to visit the old Tin Town of Waratah, lots of old houses and building but not much else, but still worth the effort.
The town is nearly a ghost town but is where we will camp up for a few days next trip to Tassie, powered sites $20 a night
Once thriving now nearly deserted, looking toward the old foot and rail bridge.
Not many towns have a wilderness area and a waterfall slap bang in the middle.
Signs of the past deep in the bush gully
Even the thistles are pretty deep in the gully.
Every hike should have one as you come out of the deep scrub, a pub :~)
The town of Tin Walk is well sign posted and worth doing, interesting but not alot in it.
Bischoff Hotel as its stands today
Even the Grafitti is old, except for the flog in 1983, at the back of the old hall, Waratah Tasmania
What was once a busy main street now has not much left. View from the old Waratah Post Office back up the street to the pub
Left to rot a Komatsu Hd325
Waratah was where hydro electricity was first developed, at the end of the blog i have a movie of the water wheel
Driving back to our cabin and the site that always puts the shits up me is bushfire.
It was gaining momentum so went went straight through and put the boot into the car so we were through it pretty quickly. Home to Wynyard for a swim and a spa to get ready for our next days adventure to Stanley.
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