Cradle Mountain Day 3

Sunday, 30 December 2018

After a day of travelling the very much beaten tracks, we decided to investigate a circuit that was no longer marked on the standard issue day walk map.   I've always been curious about it and two years ago we had heard that the route was quite overgrown but there were plans to clear it, so I held out hope that it wouldn't be a bush-bash all the way around!  

The track started from near our cabin and went up the broad gully through open heath and pandani oasis..

The track was muddy in  parts, but generally pretty good. 

After the broad gully the track turned uphill and climbed to the top of the ridge directly behind where all the Waldheim cabins are.  Up on top it was very open and quite windy.

Then we had a steep descent through mossy King Billy Pine back down to the old chalet and our cabin.  The loop was about 6.5k long and took us just over 2 hours. Well worth the trip! 

In the afternoon we caught the shuttle out to the visitor's centre so we could buy icecreams, then we walked from the ranger station back to Romy Creek on the boardwalk which was just over 6km and delightful as always.

By the time we got home we were pretty tired and happy to spend the rest of our time at Cradle Mountain playing boardgames and continuing to work our way through our Christmas leftovers.  It was a really lovely trip and we'll be back in the not too distant future.