DESCRIPTION
At the nominated time on your
booking, meet at the Tasmanian Travel and Information Centre (20 Davey Street).
We take a guided scenic drive through historic Hobart. Then passing
through South Hobart where we view Mt Wellington towering over us and the
Cascade brewery building dating back to 1824 (and share one of its stories).
Then we continue our drive through
the tall Eucalyptus forests and through the town of Ferntree with its lush well
watered cool temperate gardens occasionally covered in snow, before passing The
Springs. Here we see a quick trailer view of Bruny Island a tiny taste of what
is to come.
Next we pass the Chalet, a rustic
dolerite bluestone shelter hut and behold the colourful and resilient snow
gums, flowering banksia trees, a waterfall and views of Hobart. David
your Guide has studied botany, geology and water resources at a local
university in Hobart and is well able to explain this unique mountain
environment. He has experienced this mountain since young and has plenty of
stories to share.
Now above the tree line the wheels
again do the climbing and you do the viewing, with a scenic drive to the summit
1,270m/4,180ft (also known as the Pinnacle). Up here the views only get
better, now including some of the mountains of the Tasmanian Wilderness World
Heritage Area. You get 30 minutes free time to take in stunning views from the
Hobart and South West Wilderness viewing platforms, and see unique Tasmanian
alpine vegetation and abrupt rock pillar formations. At the summit, you will be
filled with astonishment, to be launched forth into an ocean of natural
goodness where you can see no limits.
We return to the Tasmanian Travel
Information Centre with further views, mountain and forest scenery, and
gripping stories on the way down. We arrive back in Hobart two hours after your
tour commenced leaving you plenty of time to explore Hobart.
