Mount Field National Park, Tasmania Trip (Day 3)

17th March 2016, Thursday

Blue blue sky

Woke up @ 6 am but ended up waiting until 8 am before my 2 friends woke up. I tried to make myself a hot chocolate and breakfast. One of my friends woke up first and we toasted the wrap and cooked the bacon we bought yesterday. By the time we are done, it was about 9 am. Today we headed out to Mount Fields National Park. It was about 1 hr or so ride, along the way, we saw a lot of dead animals beside the road and in the middle of the road. The sky blue blue and there were a lot of cows and sheep out in the yellow dry fields. We passed by a restaurant that had a sign board, saying $11 plus for half a dozen oysters for takeaway. We were thinking to buy them on the way back.

*sniff sniff*

Glow worn Grotto

We reached the national park @ around 12 pm, and we walked to the visitors information centre first. We asked for the park area map and then proceeded to start our walk trail. We had decided to go for the Lady Barron Falls circuit walk trail which will pass by 3 waterfalls and it will take about 2hr 30 mins. We walked through the forest with our own pace and there were wild animals around too (if you are lucky, you will see them). Then at a point, there was a sign that indicated that there were some glow worms appearing but they can be only be seen during the night and in the total darkness.

Russell Falls

Horseshoe Falls

Then we reached the first waterfall – Russell Falls, and we spent some time to enjoy the waterfall and taking photos. Then we continued walking along the trail until we reached the second waterfall – Horseshoe Falls. It wasn’t so big and nice, so we didn’t stay long and then we continued our trail into tree top walk. It was a short walk, there were many giant trees in the forest. There was a clinometer placed in a spot to let you try to measure how tall the tree was. It was pointed to the tallest tree and then you need to read the angle from the clinometer, which there was a table to indicate the measured angles. Then we walked down to the tree to find out the answer.

Clinometer 

Tree we measured

After that, we continued walking and there was a board indicating whether the fallen tree was Mount Field’s tallest tree. It was really long on the ground. Then we saw a board beside a bench, telling us to use all our senses to enjoy in the forest. So we did, we just stopped and tried to listen to the sounds around us and breathed the fresh air…hohohoho…..After that, we continued walking to the last waterfall, which was the Lady Barron Falls. The falls was also small (Russell Falls was much nicer and bigger). Then we continued to walk back to the visitor information centre, and the return trail was a 229 steps trail.

Endless steps!!

Lunch!!!

We had to climb the 229 steps up and it was so tiring. There was some paths which were a bit slippery with my running shoes and it was sliding downwards too. We finally reached back to the visitors information centre after the tiring climb. Then we took a rest in the national park café. We ordered a hot chocolate, seafood platter, sandwich and tomato soup. The food were nice and yummy and after eating, we were flipping the Hobart guide to see where we can go next. And we decided to head back to Hobart and go to a coins and stamps shop. It was an hour ride back, almost dozed off in the car.

Monoploy  Coins

We reached Hobart and tried to find a parking lot to park the car. It was kind of confusing on how the car park rates were calculated as we need to see on the parking times sign (some were on half an hour, 1 hour or 4 hours). And have to find the parking ticket machines near the parking lots. Anyhow, we managed to find a parking lot and parked there. Then we walked to the coins and stamps shop, it was a small shop inside a mall. I went in to take a look around, there were a lot of special coins and a lot of stamps too. I managed to find 4 first cover stamps and bought them (Cannot resist not to buy them…hehehe).

After that, we went to Woolworths supermarket to walk. We bought a lot of chips and instant soups, and of course, some more bacons. After shopping in the supermarket, we walked back to our car and we got a parking summon for parking without the parking ticket….hohohoho….$50 summon…-_-!

BBQ Area

Beef Steak

Salmon 

Chicken Breast

Black Forest Cake

Then we drove back to the apartment with all the stuffs, where we all took a short rest. After that, we went downstairs to have our dinner. There were 2 restaurants side by side and we were decided to go to which one. Then we decided to go to the restaurant on the left, called Ball & Chain Grill. It was very spacious and big inside and there was a free salad bar. And the bbq station was also near to the entrance which was open to the guests to see. We each ordered a set, I had chicken breast and my friends had beef and salmon. The food was nice, but the chicken breast was quite dry and I got tired chewing it…hahahaa…We also ordered a black forest cake as dessert.

After dinner, we went out to walk and had bought some pies back for tomorrow breakfast. After that, we just walked back to the apartment and rested for the day.

Hotel Stayed:
Sullivans Cove Apartments - Salamanca Battery Point

Places Visited:
Mount Field National Park