Overland Track in Tasmania

Cradle Mountain Lake St Claire National Park is a well known track in Tasmania and Australia. It's about 65 kilometres long and takes 5-6 days to complete. We took 6 days from start (Ronny Creek) to finish (Narcissus Hut), that way we'd have time for side trips as well. The first day we took the 8 am bus from Launceston, wearing shorts, and three hours later we arrived in snow. They have not had snow like that in November for about 5 years. We felt a bit uneasy but were thankful for our thermals, beanies, gloves and dare I say it, merino underwear.

As the hours passed the weather got worse..

After our 45 minute lunch break at an emergency hut the storm calmed and we walked into a beautiful landscape.

From what I understand this is Barn Bluff, 1559 metres.

I love snow but the mood definately got better as the day got hotter.

The second day we took a sidetrip to Lake Will, another beautiful place;

The scenery that day was magical with view like these:

On the third day, after a 5 hours trek I was shagged but the day was young so I decided to do Mount Oakleigh, 1386 mtrs, as well. This is the mountain as can be seen from the hut where we stayed.

And this is the view from the top;

During our trek we saw ample wildlife sightings, such as pademelons with their joeys, wallabies with joeys, wombats (as seen in the pics below) plus lots of other animals like possums, green rosellas, robins and more.