A Pack Free Walk

One of the biggest draw cards of this walk, is that our guests won’t be asked to carry their clothes, food or overnight bags for the entire walk. This is a big advantage in that you will avoid carrying an additional 8kg or more on your back. With Life’s An Adventure you will carry as little as your water bottle, lunch and camera each day.

Extra Wow Factors – Helicopter or Wilderness Cruise

We carefully design our walking tours to add a “Wow” Factor to every walk, allowing our guests access to remote areas not usually reachable in day. On this walk, guests will have the choice of a spectacular helicopter ride where you can marvel at the dramatic cliffs of Cape Pillar and see remote Tasman Island and it’s exposed lighthouse, or join a wilderness cruise around Cape Pillar to see the spectacular sea cliffs from water level – a great way to appreciate the magnitude of these giant cliffs. There is no better way to see this spectacular region.

We depart at 7.30am and travel out to Tasman National Park. (Alternatively you can organise to meet us at our Stewart Bay Lodge, Port Arthur). This geographically isolated peninsula, has over one third of Tasmania’s recorded plant species including more than 60 that are threatened species. We walk through eucalypt forest, past flowing streams and over log bridges..

We continue on through rough uphill sections to Cape Raoul with its towering cliffs and see excellent views of Tasman Island, Bruny Island and the southern Capes. On the plateau you’ll wander through beautiful banksia scrub and from the edge of the Cape you may even see the seal colony nestled at the base of Cape Raoul.

After a hot breakfast we head to picturesque Waterfall Bay to see some of the peninsulas most impressive geological features – this walk is nothing short of amazing. We begin our walk at Waterfall Bay where we immediately see a 200 metre waterfall plunge into the sea. We start with a gentle climb through stringybark forest. From here we enter a rainforest area, for the next 45 minutes we climb 548 metres to Tatnels Hill, the highest point of this track. From here the climbing subsides and the trail gently winds downhill for quite some time. The frequent coastal views of dramatic towering sea cliffs never fails to impress. A variety of habitats provide a great diversity of wildlife that live within the National Park, from possum, Tasmanian bettong and long nosed potoroo to eastern quoll and wombats. A colony of little penguins also call Fortescue Bay their home, which can sometimes been seen at dusk returning to their burrows.

For those who join the helicopter experience, you have 1.5 to 2 hours free time in the morning to relax or visit Port Arthur Historic Site or alternatively our guides will take you to see Remakable Cave. The highlight of our day is our helicopter flight which will takes us for a bird’s eye view offering magnificent vistas as we fly over the towering sea cliffs of Cape Pillar and out to remote Tasman Island with its’s exposed lighthouse. Afterwards we cross the road to the Lavendar Farm.

Alternatively guests can enjoy a three hour wilderness cruise around Cape Pillar jutting impressively out to sea. This journey will provide you with exhilarating low level views of the Three Capes and its dolerite organ pipe looking sea stacks, a great way to appreciate the magnitude of the cliffs from the base. With the chance to spot seal, whales and even dolphins. Be met at the boat after your cruise with your takeaway lunch from the Lavendar Farm and the whole group will drive to the start of our last walk to Cape Hauy.

We walk through forest and coastal heath to Cape Hauy, where we will view spectacular off-shore sea stacks known as Totem Pole, The Candlestick and The Lanterns. The peninsula’s bird life is rich and varied with over half of Tasmania’s bird species found on the peninsula. Thre are many steps on this walk, however even if you only walk as far as the lookout the views are just as spectacular. After our walk we make the return journey to Hobart arriving at 7.45pm.