I sit writing this a tad exhausted - as I am recovering from walking the tracks around Cradle Mountain. As the forecast was for another scorcher we were up early and caught the first shuttle bus of the day into the park which left a few minutes after 8am. We alighted at Ronnie's Creek and then walked on board walk across the button grass plain and marshy areas up past Crater Falls, onto Crater Lake then followed the path via Wombat Peak and Wombat pools - in the ...

We were up early to avoid the heat of the day - at 0600 it was overcast, a cool 18 degrees with some rain in the air. We packed up, left Driftwood Villas and headed to Banjos bakery for breakfast - coffee and a ham and cheese toasty for John and coffee with a cheesy herb pita for me - a different but unusually nice breakfast. We were soon on the road to travel the 140 kms to Cradle Mountain - luckily not as twisty as yesterday but still some twisty parts - we pas...