Hanson's Peak and Queenstown
As we want to continue further south today, we only take a short walk through the rainforest, visit the Cradle Mountain Lodge and climb Hanson's Peak. The latter also requires a...


Published: 03.03.2019
Since we still want to see a bit of the south of the island, today we made a big leap to Snug. It's only about 300 km, but it took about 5 hours of driving time. The route leads mostly up and down through the bush of the "wild west" of Tasmania and is dotted with tight curves.
In Kettering, 10 km south of Snug, the ferry to Bruny Island departs. We will take that tomorrow morning to explore the island. Since we have already driven the long distance here 2 years ago and the sky was covered with thick clouds all day, we will skip the numerous small viewpoints along the way. Only the dramatic human-made interventions in nature in Queenstown (copper mining) catch our attention. And we will take a walk at Lake St. Claire.