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Tasman Peninsula Itinerary Welcome to Adventure Seekers Thank you for enquiring into our tours and activities. At Adventure Seekers we specialize in small group trekking. This tour is limited to a group of 6 clients, to reduce our environmental impact and to maximize your adventure experience. On all our tours our guides will share their skills and experiences with you, so that you can best develop your own bushwalking skills and ensure that your objectives are met. Our itineraries have been designed and researched by experienced guides. Each day is broken down into manageable legs to give you the best possible experience plus time out to relax and explore the beauty of your surroundings. Our campfire cuisine, where able is prepared using fresh ingredients and our meals will satisfy the heartiest of appetites. Adventure Seekers utilize the services of local businesses whenever we can thus generating economic benefits for the host communities that we visit. We invite you to join us on our treks and look forward to guiding you through your wilderness adventure. Joining Instruction At the booking stage of the tour we will provide you with the how, when and where of the tour. This will include booking information, a personal bushwalking equipment list, and our environmental policy for the National Park, travel and accommodation information. Itinerary Our Tasman Peninsula walk is a stunning coastal journey. You will not only be amazed by the spectacular sea cliffs and rock formations but the peninsular has an abundance of wildlife, and boasts over 1/3rd of Tasmania’s recorded plant species which includes 60 threatened species. Day 1: Waterfall Bay to Bivouac Bay [8km] After a short drive from Hobart your tour starts at Waterfall Bay, south of Eaglehawk Neck and heads south along the coastal track past Camp Falls and Waterfall Bluff. A short climb up behind Clemes Peak puts us atop the ridgeline know as the Tasman Coastal Track. From the ridge you have expansive view to Cape Hauy and the Hippolyte Rocks before a short decent to our camp at Bivouac Bay. Day 2: Bivouac Bay to Bare Knoll [11km] From Bivouac Bay we pass through Fortescue Bay and continue south through forest & woodland and into the heart of the Tasman National Park. In this area the vegetation is dominated by, White Stringybark trees, Blue Gums and Fern Trees. As you climb to Tornado Ridge the vegetation changes and it is a reminder that Cape Pillar can be subject to gale force winds. From Tornado Ridge it’s a short walk down the ridgeline to our camp at Bare Knoll. Day 3: Day Walk to Cape Pillar and return [12km] You leave your packs at camp today and we journey down to Cape Pillar where you have views of towering sea cliffs, Capes Hauy and Raoul, Tasman Island, Bruny Island and Maria Island. Around the coastline here, shipwrecks are commonplace, as gale force winds, off shore rocks and narrow passages have claimed many a mariner. Following lunch we retrace our footsteps back to our camp at Bar Knoll. Day 4: Bare Knoll to Fortescue Bay [12.5km] The track drops down into Munroe Bight then up around Mount Fortescue and along the top of the sea cliffs to Cape Hauy. At Cape Hauy lies, the spectacular offshore sea stacks known as the Lanterns and 2 stacks that are popular with climbers called “The Totem Pole” and the “Candlestick” From Cape Hauy you walk through coastal heath to Fortescue Bay and your waiting shuttle back to Hobart. .

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7 A OJ? TASMAN PENINSULA M.R. Banks, E.A. Calholln, RJ. Ford and E. Williams University of Tasmania (MRB and the laie R.J. Ford). b!ewcastle fo rmerly University of Tasmama (EAC) and (ie,a/Ogle,Cl; Survey of Tasmania (E'W) (wjth two text-figures lUld one plate) On Tasman Peninsula, southeastern Tasmania, almost hOrizontal Permian marine and Triassic non-marine lOcks were inllUded by Jurassic dolerite, faulted and overiain by basalt Marine processes operating on the Jurassic and older rocks have prcl(iU!ced with many erosional features widely noted for their grandeur a self-renewing economic asset. Key Words: Tasman Peninsula, Tasmania, Permian, dolerite, erosional coastline, submarine topography. From SMITH, S.J. (Ed.), 1989: IS lllSTORY ENOUGH ? PA ST, PRESENT AND FUTURE USE OF THE RESOURCES OF TA SMAN PENINSULA Royal Society of Tasmania, Hobart: 7-23. INTRODUCTION Coal was discovered ncar Plunkett Point by surveyors Woodward and Hughes in 1833 (GO 33/ Tasman Peninsula is known for its spectacular coastal 16/264·5; TSA) and the seam visited by Captain scenery - cliffs and the great dolerite columns O'Hara Booth on May 23, 1833 (Heard 1981, p.158). which form cliffs in places, These columns were Dr John Lhotsky reported to Sir John Franklin on the first geological features noted on the peninsula. this coal and the coal mining methods in 1837 (CSO Matthew Flinders, who saw the columns in 1798, 5/72/1584; TSA). His thorough report was supported reported (1801, pp.2--3) that the columns at Cape by a coloured map (CSO 5/11/147; TSA) showing Pillar, Tasman Island and Cape "Basaltcs" (Raoul) some outcrops of different rock This map, were "not strictlybasaltes", that they were although not the Australian not the same in form as those Causeway Dictionary of (Vol.
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