Cradle Mountain – das wilde Tasmanien

The Cradle Mountain National Park is the starting point of the 60 km long Overland Tracks. Due to time constraints I had to take only a day trip, which is also despite the rain recommended in any case.

From Launceston we were off up to the National Park where we around a 3 hour hike to Lake Dove made.

Due to the thick cloud cover and the constant rain we have not seen the actual peaks of Cradle Mountain, but what about the most rainfall in Tasmania quite normal in this region.

Nevertheless, the fall is the best season to see the area first because fewer tourists are traveling and secondly offer the colors of the deciduous trees a nice contrast to the gray rocks.

The establishment of the Cradle Mountain National Park was way after years of development work by the Austrian Gustav Weindorfer. Here the boat house on Lake Dove that he had built.

As a botanist wine villages met his Tasmanian woman in Australia know and was impressed by the scenery at Cradle Mountain so that he decided in short here to build a mountain hut to attract visitors.

According to the structure of the Waldheimat under extreme weather conditions and some "promotional events" a road was built and finally declared the area as a National Park after 10 years.

The animal stars of the national park are the Wombats, Related to the koala these opossums can weigh up to 37kg. Wombats can be encountered only in Australia and have a body length of 70 to 120 cm.

Expectant time has to be completed around the entire Overland Track, which should certainly do, I'll probably have to move it to the next world tour!