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Length: 4.7km
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Duration: 1.5hrs
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Grade: 2
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Style: Circuit
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Start: Lake St Clair Visitors Centre
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End: Lake St Clair Visitors Centre
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Location: Cradle Mountain Lake St Clair National Park
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Closest Town: Derwent Bridge
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Distance from CBD: 180km
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State: TAS
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Latitude: -42.116756
Longitude: 146.172951
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Lake St Clair Walk is a 4.7km, grade 2 Circuit hike located in Cradle Mountain Lake St Clair National Park Tasmania. The hike should take approximately 1.5hrs to complete.
Summary
There are three short walks at Lake St Clair. The shortest is 2.4 km return and this can be extended by combining it with either one or two additional walks. At their longest, these walks combine to form a 4.7km figure-of-eight loop.
Highlights
Watersmeet
This is a short, easy walk, which will take you about 45 minutes return. The track follows an old road that was constructed to allow for limited logging after bushfires in the area in the 1960s. It is 1.7 km eachway, and culminates at Watersmeet, where the Hugel and Cuvier Rivers meet.
Larmairremener tabelti
This Aboriginal cultural heritage walk uses creative interpretation panels to introduce the Larmairremener, the indigenous people of this region. A band of the Big River Nation of people, the Larmairremener made seasonal trips to the east coast and traded along well-travelled routes with other bands.
The walk contains a wide variety of vegetation, including banksias, buttongrass, tea-tree thickets, Tasmanian waratahs, rainforest ferns, and towering eucalypt stags. The latter were ravaged by bushfires in the 1960s. The track follows moraines, which are ridges formed by retreating glaciers during the ice ages. Moraines influence the vegetation types in the area with open woodlands occurring on the well-drained moraines and tea-tree and buttongrass communities occurring in the wetter areas between the moraines. After reaching a viewpoint above the Hugel River, the track descends gently to the rainforest area and rejoins the Watersmeet Track where the Hugel and Cuvier rivers meet.
Platypus Bay
The track to Platypus Bay is a 30 minute return walk from Watersmeet Bridge. This track follows the Cuvier River to its mouth at the lake. The track then curves around the edge of the lake. Platypus are sometimes seen in this area. The best time is early morning or late afternoon.
Region
The Western Wilderness
Getting there
Road C193 to Lake St Clair from the Lyell Highway (A10)
Tips
Park entry fees apply. (Self registration park entrance.)
Visitor centre, restaurant and accommodation.
Supervise children , tracks subject to severe weather conditions all year round, weather may change quickly, tracks are difficult to navigate when covered in snow and may be impassable.
No pets, firearms or bicycles.
Max elevation: 786 m
Min elevation: 743 m
Total climbing: 100 m
Total descent: -100 m
For more information about this hiking trail please visit Parks and Wildlife Service Tasmania
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