South Cape Bay Walk

Length: 15.5km
Duration: 4hrs
Grade: 3
Style: Return
Start: Entrance to Cockle Creek
End: Entrance to Cockle Creek

Location: Southwest National Park
Closest Town: Cockle Creek
Distance from CBD: 122km
State: TAS
Latitude: -43.582621
Longitude: 146.89321

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South Cape Bay Walk is a 15.5km, grade 3 Return hike located in Southwest National Park Tasmania. The hike should take approximately 4hrs to complete.

Summary

Within the Southwest National Park, this walk starts from the end of Australia’s most southerly road and is the eastern end of the popular 7 day South Coast Track to Port Davey. It’s a great place, so take your lunch and make a good day of it.

Highlights

Australia’s most southern coastline is also the country’s most unspoilt. No roads lead to this beautiful, untouched and often wild region. This track will allow you to experience this region the way it has been since long before the impacts that Europeans wrought upon so many parts of Australia.

Region

Hobart and Surrounds

Getting there

Road C636 from Lune River township to Cockle Creek. Park your car adjacent to the information booth at the end of the road (unsealed road)

Tips

Park entry fees apply.

Toilets and unpowered camping areas

Supervise children, hazardous cliffs, unprotected track edges, unpatrolled beaches – swim with caution.

No pets, firearms or bicycles.

Total distance: 15515 m
Max elevation: 45 m
Min elevation: 4 m
Total climbing: 234 m
Total descent: -234 m

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For more information about this hiking trail please visit Parks and Wildlife Service Tasmania