Northern Tangara Trails

Friday 22nd February 2019

Mays Point

Today's walk was a quick one around some of the Northern Tangara Trails around Roches Beach and Lauderdale areas.
I parked at Seven Mile Beach and just did an anticlockwise circuit utilizing, roads, horse trails and walking tracks to arrive back at the car.
A good walk with one small hill and nice coastal scenery.
Distance: 17.0 kms.
Time: 3'35"
Ascent: 300 metres
GPX file is here.

Tangara Entrance

Tangara

Tangara

Heading up Single Hill

Single Hill

From Single Hill

From Single Hill

Wetlands behind Roches Beach

Roches Beach

Roches Beach

Roches Beach

Roches Beach

Roches Beach

From coastal track

From coastal track

From coastal track

From coastal track

Seven Mile Beach

South Arm Circuit

Tuesday 12th February 2019

South Arm

I needed a quick little walk today and South Arm fitted the bill nicely.
I parked at the end of Bezzants Road in South Arm and walked to the beach and headed north. There was a walk of about 3.0 kms along a beach and then small rocks to round Icehouse Bluff and on to Shelly Beach. This section needs to be done at low tide as there is only a narrow section to walk on and there are high sandstone cliffs in some sections. As it was I had to walk in the water in a couple of sections. The weather was not ideal with wind squalls and some showers.

Musks Beach

Shelly Beach

I walked along Shelly Beach before picking up the track that goes around Gellibrand Point.

Shelly Beach

Shelly Beach

Opossum Bay

The Spit

Mount Wellington

Rounding Gellibrand Point

 I continued on bypassing White Rock Point back to Opossum Bay. By now the sun had appeared but the wind was still blowing strongly.

Mary Ann Bay

Mary Ann Bay

Looking across the Derwent

Once I reached Opossum Bay I just followed various roads and walking tracks back to the car.
A good short walk and all reasonably easy going.
Distance: 13.5 kms.
Time: 3'01"
Ascent: 150 metres
GPX file is here.

Gunners Quoin

Tuesday 15th January 2019

Gunners Quoin

I knew it was going to be hot today but wasn't expecting it to get to 35 degrees, otherwise I would have walked somewhere by the water where it would have been cooler. Never mind it turned out okay but I was quite exhausted by the end of the walk. I choose to do a circuit walk to Gunners Quoin.
I started off at Risdon Brook Reservoir and walked along the eastern shore before branching off at the northern end and heading up various tracks to a line of ridges and saddles and plateau type country.

Some of the bush

Track heading up

An aggressive wallaby that decided to charge me

Walking across the plateau

As I was crossing the plateau a wallaby decided to have a go at me and charged hissing and snorting. I soon scared it off. The walking all along the ridges and plateau was very easy through open forest. The final climb up to Gunners Quoin was on another track and once up there I walked along the edge taking in the views, mostly of the Derwent.

After a quick lunch I headed down the marked track to meet up with the outward leg and then back to the car.

Risdon Brook Reservoir

Mount Direction

This was a good walk through some nice open forest and would have been better if it was cooler.
Distance:16.7 kms.
Time: 4'57"
Ascent: 670 metres
GPX file is here.