Multi-Day Walks
Dundas & Fraser Creek Hut
OUR PREMIUM WALK
Grade:
Medium
Length:
3 Days
day 1
3 Hours Walking
day 2
6 Hours Walking
day 3
3 Hours Walking
This is Wild Wombat Walks’ *premium* tour. It is how you can actually touch Tasmanian history!
The journey begins with an hour’s drive to the “ghost town” of Dundas, between Rosebery and Zeehan, where we will meet Michael and Eleanor. They are the only permanent residents of the “town” and the owners of a mining lease. After a visit to their museum and collection of minerals, we will venture underground! I won’t spoil the surprise – instead, I will let Michael show you….
After lunch we begin our walk. A two to three hour walk, beginning with a 30 minute uphill, takes us through Carbine Saddle to meet the old tramway which serviced the mines. The rails and sleepers are still very much in evidence along the flat track to the hut, being constructed from the local timbers – King Billy and Celery-top pine – which were abundant in the 1870s!
The hut itself is truly magical. Built from local timbers, it has been loved by the senior Queenstown Scouts for decades and is warm, comfortable and very well appointed! This will be our base for the next two nights.
Day Two we will spend exploring the area, wandering along the old tram tracks and visiting the legacy mines. Waterfalls are in abundance in the hills of Mount Dundas and there will be many opportunities for you to stop and simply “be”…..
Day Three we will pack up, walk back to the car and head back to Waratah via a visit to the Zeehan Mining and Minerals Museum and Princess Theatre.
Que River Rainforest
Grade:
Easy to Very Difficult
Length:
2 Days
day 1
4-8 Hours Walking (Including Lunch)
day 2
4-8 Hours Walking (Including Lunch)
The Que Road Rainforest is out of this world. No tracks will greet you when we leave the car – this is your chance to explore primeval Gondwanan-aged old growth in a way offered nowhere else. The first hour will be a roam around the end of the road, getting to know the area. Then we’ll learn to navigate using a map and compass before setting off towards the Que River, which will take us a couple of hours. Depending on the weather, there will be an opportunity to get wet. The length of this part of our journey is completely up to the group.
Sustainable Timbers Tasmania have plans to harvest a lot of this forest. This may be your last chance to see it as it has been for more than one hundred million years…..
Day Walks
Whyte River wander, Corinna
Grade:
Easy (Not suitable for wheelchairs)
Length:
Approx 3 Hours (Including breaks
This walk begins and ends in the historic gold mining village of Corinna. Following the banks of the beautiful Pieman River, you’ll experience one of the best rainforest walks in Tasmania while following in the footsteps of the early European explorers. takayna’s rainforest is incredible! This walk is a great introduction to a forest which has remained largely the same since the time of the dinosaurs. It is one of the few places in the state where Tasmania’s most famous tree, the Huon Pine, is easily accessible as they love growing on river banks.
The walk is graded “easy” as it is mostly flat. There is one short steep section which has about 30 timber steps to negotiate.
Mount Donaldson
Grade:
Medium (Some steep sections along an old 4WD track which can be wet & muddy)
Length:
4-6 Hours including lunch on the summit (weather permitting)
The track to the summit of Mount Donaldson starts a few kilometres from Corinna and follows an old four wheel drive track which gave access to Tasmania’s only diamond mine, abandoned long ago. Rainforest towers above you as the walk begins on the banks of the Savage River, gradually giving way to eucalypts before emerging onto the (often) windswept buttongrass moorland. The last 15 minutes to the summit can be difficult if it’s windy and the track is often more a creek than a path! BUT! The views from the summit (412m. above sea level) are spectacular and well worth the walk. The Pieman and Savage Rivers lie beneath, cutting through the ancient landscape towards the wild ocean in the distance….
Montezuma Falls
Grade:
Easy (Follows the line of the North Dundas Tramway so the entire distance is perfectly flat!)
Length:
4-6 Hours including lunch at the falls
The walk to Tasmania’s highest waterfall (104m.) starts in the historical “ghost” town of Williamsford and is deep in the heart of the most mineralized zone on the planet! The area around the long-gone town has been host to mines of every description, a legacy which continues to the present day. The walk to the Falls follows the route of the North Dundas tramline and was the way the ore from the many small mines in the hills above found its way to the smelters in Zeehan….
Lake Johnson Nature Reserve
RoamWild Tasmania Collaboration
Grade:
Easy
Length:
Full Day (Approx 10 Hours)
What’s involved?
Driving (2WD): 3 hours
Driving (4WD): 3 hours
Walking: 3 Hours
In conjunction with RoamWild Tasmania, Wild Wombat Walks is very proud to offer something very special.
This full day tour takes you to the top of Mount Read, the site of the eponymous mining village dating from the late 1890s and the wettest place in Tasmania. Lake Johnson Nature Reserve is home to several unique species of tree – although they do grow elsewhere on the Island.
One is the largest continuous ‘patch’ of Nothofagus gunnii, or Tanglefoot – our deciduous rainforest tree; two is the largest King Billy Pine (Athrotaxis selaginoides) yet found and three is…..
Can you wait? There is a wonderful story about the ____________ (you’ll find out what it is as we travel up the mountain) which overhangs Lake Johnson. It’s been there a LONG time….and it’s a wonder it survived our presence….
Come and find out what makes the wettest place in Tasmania somewhere you will never forget!
