Lake St Clair

After walking the very start of the Overland Track at Cradle Mountain, we encountered the very end of it on a 20+ km walk partway around Lake St Clair. The amazing weather we’d been experiencing was continuing and when we started our walk around the lake it was one of those days (perfectly clear, sunny, completely still) when you just keep exclaiming about how amazing, how beautiful, how wonderful the day is.

And the surroundings were pretty sensational as well – the water in Lake St Clair had a gin-like clarity– a contrast to the tannin stained waters of the west coast, we were completely surrounded by forest, and distant mountains. The path skirted the lakes’ edge, alternating through rainforest, beech stands and occasional eucalypt patches.



The number of snakes that we encountered on this walk (and on many such walks in Tasie) definitely gave our walk a little extra frisson. I (Nic) have certainly never in my life encountered so many snakes as I have in Tassie, but then again I have never spent two months almost completely outside and walking in the bush! This snake sunning itself on a log after swimming out of the lake was providing a few visitors (including ourselves) with a bit of extra excitement!


We bumped into a friend Cathy and her (brand new) husband Diamond who had walked on the Overland Track for their honeymoon. How often does that happen? The only people you know who are travelling in a place at the same time and then you go and bump into them!!