"But sometimes I was standing up to my hips in mud and was asking myself how the hell this can be an official promoted walking track in Tasmania."
aljscott wrote: .....yea. there is plenty of mud on the south coast track, but is pretty benign.. I've seen deeper mud on the way into Lake Judd and Frenchmans Cap. Fair enough, the south coast range is pretty horrible,.......
Matthias, its nice to see someone with similar views to mine after doing the South Coast track. There was just not much interesting going on when I was on it. The South Cape Range was depressingly muddy, views were hard to come by in the predominant forest sections and the weather was gloomy although fairly benign. Admittedly New River Lagoon and most of the campsites are at lovely beaches and the Ironbounds are a great alpine break from all that forest and bog. We even gave Louise Bay a miss in the desire to get to Cox Bight, influenced again by the misty moisty weather. I am open to the possibility that it might be better in good weather but from choice I would go for a different walk option. South West Cape was way better (and a fair bit more demanding). Glad you managed it, seemingly without problem, because I was a bit concerned that with your only quoted experience being the Overland Track you would find it a bit much. I take it the rats left your food alone. Well done.For my part, I had a good week but I don't feel like walking the track again, it was a bit disappointing to be honest.
matthias wrote:Hey, that's my blog ....
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