Monday, March 06, 2006

Day-1: Cradle Mountain is somewhere?

After a gruelling evening at Tamar backpackers in Launceston (dont ever stay there) where our packs got infested with ants and seriously all the locals must have been outside our window all night, we arrived at the start of the overland track with little to no sleep between us. We soon forgot all this however when we stumbled upon the view at Crater Lake and lightened our packs with some lunch. Next up a long windy path to the top where apparently Cradle mountain sits but I have yet to see it as it rained and gusted the whole way past, lots of fun though putting the wet weather gear to the test. After many hours of trudging through the rain which just kept getting harder we arrived a Waterfall Valley where Marty and I stayed in the hut (with 25 other people mind you + one loud snorer) and Jarrod braved the tent.
The beautiful view at crater lake...see that hill behind little did we know the weather up there!
Ah the first of many waterfallsWhat a shot...by this stage we were thoroughly drenched and apparently on our left is cradle mountain, which I still havent seen.

The view from waterfall valley hut, this made the thought of putting on rain sodden boots to the back of my mind

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