The Lakes & Cradle Mountain

The morning was much calmer with little wind and just some drizzle. We cooked breakfast in the shelter and had a long chat with a couple travelling Aus in just a Troopy.
After packing up we drove the road back past the Greenies who coincidently were burning a fire to keep warm. I hope they brought some wood that is allowed to be cut down. We drove down the mountains then up some new mountains to make it to lake Arthur which is next to the Great Lake. On the way we saw our first Wombat that was alive not squashed on the road. Lucky he just watched me drive past. We stopped in at the Waddamana Power station which is a Hydro Museum. I was quite surprised and this a great place that is exactly as it was built in the early 1900’s. I was surprised to find out that the first Hydro Electricity plant was opened in Tassie in the 1800’s. They built these things in terrible conditions and it snows a lot here.
We carried on to another lake Penstock which also looks like it snows there, but we carried on to Arthurs lake and found a camp site there on the edge of the lake. Well it would be if it was full. Even in Tassie there are droughts in this part of Tassie and both the great lake, Lake Gordon & Arthur lake a good 10-30m below their peaks capacities.
We are not canoeing today it is just too cold even with the campfire it is freezing and the coldest nigh in Tassie by far.


A nice sleep in this morning because we had to wait for it to get warm enough to get out of the car. Luckily around 11.00am the sun finally broke through and the temp finally got above 5°. We packed up and decided to move on to somewhere warmer like Mole creek. The sun was beautiful for the drive through central Tassie and we spent a sunny arvo by Sassafras creek in the little Mole Creek Caravan Park.

A pleasant morning greeted us as we headed off to Cradle Mountain. This is very windy road up large mountains which Tina drove. The weather is crap but we are going on anyway. We made lunch and rugged up in our waterproof jackets borrowed form Mel & Glen. We took the shuttle up to the edge of Dove lake. It is a 2 hour walk around the lake and provides views of all the surrounding mountains including Cradle peak. Well we couldn’t really see it today. But the views here are truly spectacular once again. As usual it wasn’t really that cold just wet. It was a great walk and of course it was only raining in the mountains as soon as we left and drove down towards the plains it became a beautiful sunny day.