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Bushwalk North East Tasmania
Duration: 8 -10 hours
Departs: Launceston
Minimum 2 persons
”Bushwalk North East Tasmania” will introduce you to Tasmania as a garden in isolation with mountain peaks rising above 1,500 meters, forests of giant hardwood trees, spectacular rainforests, ferny gorges, flowering heath-lands and invigorating alpine peaks.
Itinerary
Depart Launceston - 8.30am
Travel by 4WD vehicle east for 1 hour passing through Scottsdale to the base of the Cuckoo Falls walking track. The track, formally old logging and cattle tracks, passes through Blackwood forest, tall wet eucalypt forests and rain forests until you hear the Hogarth Rivulet tumbling over two steep granite shelves for about 30 meters which are the Cuckoo Falls. This is a challenging 2 to 3 hour return walk.
Lunch – At the base of the Cuckoo Falls track (gourmet picnic lunch)
After lunch we will travel 1 hour to the Fingal Forests and visit Evercreech Forest Reserve, home of the famous “White Knights” the tallest white gums in the world. A 20 minute circuit walk will let you enjoy the individual and collective beauty of the white gums and their companion species.
Departing the Evercreech Forest Reserve we travel to Ben Lomond National Park. Clothed in eucalypt forests, the foothills rise to meet the dolerite cliffs above. Jacob’s ladder, the road to the mountain zigzags upward to the plateau, a home to a variety of wildlife and in summer the mountain’s alpine moorlands and heaths are in spectacular flower.
On the mountain we will walk the Legges Tor Circuit, a 1 hour return walk climbing to Legges Tor at 1572 metres, Tasmania’s second-highest peak.
Return to Launceston – Approximately 5.00pm
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