Mount-Roland

27th January 2010 From our window in the cottage we have a fabulous view of Mount Roland and since we arrived the plan has always been to do the summit walk which is about a 5 hour return hike. Unfortunately, the weather conspired against us today, which was the day we had planned to do the walk. When we woke up the summit was shrouded in cloud and although the cloud thinned during the morning we decided to do a shorter walk to the summit of Mount Claude instead. ...

24th January 2010 Fifteen minutes from the centre of Launceston is the magnificent Cateract Gorge, our destination this morning. Access to the gorge is via a nice park area with a public swimming pool with views over First Basin, a large, deep canyon worn away by the river and filled with water. Standing at the entrance to the gorge is the decorative, wrought-iron Kings Bridge with a span of 60 metres. Before we crossed the bridge, we took a short walk along the side of the gorge with its cliffs rising almost vertically from the smooth river of the South Esk River. Then we crossed the bridge and took the easy twenty minute Cataract walk around First Basin. ...