I’ve been to many places around the world and I think Cradle Mountain is up there with the best. Although it did help in the middle of summer and I did not have the most crystal clear sunny day without a cloud in site, it just gave that extra “spice” to the purity and wilderness this place represents.

One of the most iconinc -short- walks in the National Park is the circuit walk around Lake Dove.

This walk is reachable from the northern entrance of the Cradle Mountain and Lake St Clair National Park.

The walk itself goes around the Dove Lake crossing the rainforests and takes about 2-3 hours (6km) to finish. Its a relatively easy walk with some minor steep parts.

If you start the walk anticlockwise and you plan accordingly, you can catch the sunset at the boat shed at near the end of the circle.

I did not have much of a luck with sunset so I decided to return at 5am for some sunrise shots - heavy overcast and fog greeted me when I arrived, but as it happens rather often when out shooting - I had that sudden “2 minute” gap to catch some colors.

How to get to Cradle Mountain National Park

The Cradle Mountain–Lake St Clair National Park is accessible from Sheffield in the north and Derwent Bridge in the south. The northern entrance to the park is 1.5 hr from Devonport and 2.5 hr from Launceston.

My name is Katalin and I have been traveling in China and Australia (on and off) for three years now. I can’t stand travel agencies - totally disagree with their principle of keeping the “secret of how to travel” to themselves and I love traveling on my own.

My favourite way of traveling is by public transport, I do it usually with minimal planning and just let the locals “drive” me to the spots.

This site is my experience of how to travel with no agency in China and the places I think worth for a visit in both Tasmania and Victoria, Australia.

If I am not exploring you can find me hiking somewhere in the mountains / bushes or taking photos. Oops, wait a second that’s exploring too