Thursday 12th May 2011
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| Salters Point |
The walk begins on an unnamed road off Stormlea Road at Stormlea on the Tasman Peninsula. Drive towards Nubeena from Port Arthur and turn left into Stormlea Road. Follow for 6.6 kms. and turn right into the unnamed road. Drive down and park off the road where possible. There is space further down the road near the locked gate.
I headed off at 0735 around the locked gate and downhill for a time before coming to a road junction where I turned right and followed the road past what looked like a car wrecking yard.
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| Car Wrecking Yard |
The road went down to the low point and here I kept going straight ahead on an old track uphill to find the track cairn on the left. I turned here and gradually climbed up to a junction where there was a sign "Salters Point" left, "Lousy Gully" right. Here I turned left and walked along an old overgrown track to another junction where left was to Tunnel Bay and right to Salters Point. I turned right and began the descent to Salters Point.
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| At Salters Point |
The track was easy to follow and it made its way around to the north of Salters Point and then headed back south to finally reach the point. The views were superb from here and well worth the walk. I stayed around for a short while enjoying the scenery before walking back to the car.
A good walk with great scenery and the walk itself is not over duly taxing.
Distance: 16.4 kms.
Time: 4'30"
Ascent: 590 metres
Click here to download GPX track.
Note: Please see comment below
re overgrown track.
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| Salters Point |
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| Shipstern Bluff and Cape Raoul from Salters Point |
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| From Salters Point |
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| From Salters Point |
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| Salters Point |
We did this walk yesterday (13 Feb, 2014). Pretty much as Denis describes, but the track through the heath down to Salter's is now very overgrown and it was hard/irritating work bashing through it. Back at the cars, which were parked by the gate, we had clocked 19.1kms - 3 more than Dennis. Not sure we, as we only made a very short detour to the Tunnel Bat lookout. That would have added at most half a kilometre. Took us 6 hrs, including lunch and tea stops.
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