At a Glance
This 3-day Epic Southwest Tassie Walk Fly & Boat takes you the remote Southwest National Park of Tasmania - the ultimate wilderness for nature lovers. The adventure-packed tour incorporates walks on untouched beaches, climbing mountains, visiting Aboriginal middens and caves, exploring the remote Port Davey Marine Reserve by a private boat and soaring in a magnificent flight to witness the grandeur of this lost world and see some of the icons of Tasmania’s world renowned wilderness. Stay at the private wilderness camp and enjoy delicious meals prepared from local produce and tasting the best wines that the region has to offer.
In the far southwest of Tasmania, lies the spectacular Southwest National Park. It's the heart of the Tasmanian wilderness and contains some of the finest and most remote wilderness found ...
Trip Highlights
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What's Included
- Scenic Flight from Hobart to the South West Wilderness
- Boat cruises to the start of your walking trails each day
- Three day's pack free walk to explore the remote Southwest of Tasmania with your experienced guides
- 2 nights in eco-friendly wilderness camp located in one of the world's last remaining temperate rainforests and on the shores of Bathurst Harbour with with a comfy queens size bed
- 2 x breakfasts, 3 x lunches, 2 x dinners featuring the best Tasmanian seasonal produce. All beverages during your stay are covered – including Tasmanian wines, beer, juice, water, tea and coffee. Fresh fruit and trail mix to enjoy during your walk
Itinerary
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Walking distance: approximately 2-4km, 1-2hours (Easy grade) Aboard a spectacular scenic flight to the Southwest National Park, a World Heritage-listed wilderness of over 600,000 hectares. Fly over the Derwent River, make our way down the D’Entrecasteaux Channel, past Recherche Bay and Bruny Island to Cockle Creek and South East Cape - Tasmania's most southern point. At this point we leave civilisation behind and enter the vast south west wilderness by following the South Coast Track all the way to Melaleuca (Bathurst Harbour). During the flight, you'll witness the tough South Coast track with its wild beaches, Precipitous Bluff, Mt La Perouse, Ironbound Range and remote Maatsuyker Island. You'll also overfly the ancestral home of the Needwonnee people, who occupied Louisa Bay for thousands of years. Landing at the abandoned tin mining settlement of Melaleuca, which is 7 days walk to the nearest town, you’ll breath the cleanest air in the world, and experience true wilderness. You'll visit the bird observatory to see the rare and endangered Orange Bellied Parrots before exploring the old tin mine and taking you along the Needwonnee Walk. The 1.2 kilometre boardwalk weaves its way through the forest and buttongrass plains beside Melaleuca lagoon, featuring 40,000 year history of the Needwonnee people inhabitants of the land. After morning tea, board a private boat and head down Melaleuca Inlet and into Bathurst Harbour, Port Davey, an untouched waterway three and a half times the size of Sydney Harbour. Arrive at the wilderness camp where you will be based for two nights. After a delicious lunch at the camp, you'll head out to Bathurst Harbour and visit the untouched Celery Top Islands for a forest walk and stroll around these remarkable islands offering amazing views of Mt Rugby. These Islands have been cut off and preserved since the end of the last ice age, making them a unique time capsule of the area. If time permits, you then stop at Clayton's in Forest Lag for a walk up TV Hill where Clyde Clayton installed his TV aerial. Then head back to camp to settle in for the evening and enjoy a three-course dinner with Tasmanian wines. |
Wilderness Camp
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Walking distance: approximately 4 km, 2 hours of walking, (Easy to Moderate Grade). Harder walking option: Mt Rugby walk, approximately 14 km. 6 hours return (Moderate to Hard, Grade 4) After breakfast, travel by boat through the Bathurst Narrows with its 800-metre mountains rising from the sea towards the picturesque Bramble Cove. Walk up Mt Milner and be rewarded with its beautiful views of Port Davey and the Bathurst Narrows. After lunch, head out to Breaksea Island, cruising along the protected side, witnessing the array of native bird life and the mouth of Port Davey and the Caroline and Shanks Islands. Then explore an ancient aboriginal ochre cave at Schooner Cove, visit the grave site of Critchley Parker Jr and take a stroll along beautiful Balmoral Beach before heading back to camp for dinner and rest. For harder walking option: enjoy a walk to famous Mt Rugby. The peak is 771 metres from sea level and the track is muddy in places and a rock scramble at the top. A reasonable level of fitness is required. This is challenging walk but for those that do, you will be rewarded with breathtaking 360 degree views of the stunning wilderness that surround you, that many consider the best view in Tasmania. |
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Walking distance: approximately 6 - 7 km, 3 - 4 hours of walking (Easy to Moderate Grade) Enjoy breakfast and walk up Mt Beattie. The summit of Mt Beattie provides the best views over Bathurst Harbour, Bathurst Channel and Melaleuca Inlet. If the tide and weather permits, you can also cruise across Bathurst Harbour to the Old River, from here you take a wonderful walk through a tranquil and ancient Huon pine forest, admiring the grandeur and magnificence of these towering trees. You will have another opportunity to see the Orange Bellied Parrots at Melaleuca before your flight home to civilisation. Return to Hobart via Port Davey, the Bathurst Narrows and then overland to the rugged Western Arthur Range, to spectacular Federation Peak, Mt Picton, the Hartz Mountain National Park and the Huon Valley. Estimated arrival time is 5:00pm. NOTE: Hobart return transfer can be arranged at an additional cost. Please contact us. |
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Please contact us to book if you have a group of more than 12 people.
More Info
- The departure point is Hobart Tas
- Major commercial flights provide convenient access to Hobart
Day 1: Approximately 2 - 4 km, 1 - 2 hour (Flight & Boat rides to access wilderness camp)
Day 2: Approximately 4 km, 2 hours, or choose to do the harder walk: 14 km, 6 hours
Day 3: Approximately 6 - 7 km, 3 - 4 hours (Flight & Boat rides back to Hobart
Tasmania has four distinct seasons with the warmest months being December to March. The average maximum daily summer temperatures are between 17 and 23 degrees Celsius and winter daily temperatures sit between 3 and 11 degrees Celsius.
Onlyluxe Travel acts as travel agency and work with different tour operators.
Payment Detail
All pricing is in Australian dollars and are quoted on a per person twin share basis. A supplementary price is available (see below). Bookings are not confirmed until full payment and the signed Booking Form has been received by Onlyluxe Travel.
A non-refundable 30% deposit is payable within 7 days of your booking, with the final balance due 60 days prior to departure. If a booking is made 60 days or less before departure, the full payment is payable immediately. Last minute bookings are payable before arrival. Failure to pay on time may result in automatic cancellation of a booking with cancellation penalties payable to Onlyluxe Travel. If you pay by credit card or PayPal a surcharge will be added to the total price.
Single Supplement
All accommodation is twin share. Single guests will share with someone of the same gender. If a single room is demanded, a supplementary price of will apply. The supplementary price refers to our quotation and needs to be stipulated at the time of booking.
General Cancellation Policies
- Outside of 60 days monies will be refunded less 30% of full fee
- Within 60 days prior to arrival all monies will be forfeited
- No refunds will be given in the event of non-arrival, any unused services or unused nights due to flight or weather disruption
- We strongly recommend guests protect themselves with travel insurance and medical insurance
Please Note: Cancellations must be advised in email and will take effect from the date they are received.
Liability
The participant agrees to indemnify Onlyluxe Travel, and its servant, tour operator and agents, in relation to any liability, loss and damage which the tour operator, or its servants and/or agents may incur as a result of the participants, negligence or misconduct during the tour.
Smoking is not permitted on the bus, or in tents or in other accommodation being used by tour operator at the time that a trip is being conducted.
Child Policy
Please consult travel consultant on age limit.
Changes to Itineraries
Local conditions may necessitate changes to sightseeing, walking and driving routes, camping and accommodation locations. While every effort will be made to provide the services and experiences as offered in our brochure, on our website, and in our trip letters, we reserve the right to vary your itinerary. In the event that we are forced to change your arrangements, substitute arrangements of a similar standard will be provided. The tour operator will not be liable where interruptions to itineraries are caused by weather conditions, technical problems to transport used by the tour operator, industrial action, political or civil commotion or other circumstances beyond our control. We refer you to the conditions regarding travel insurance.
Changes in Prices
While we will do its utmost to honour its pricing unforeseen circumstances may mean that prices may be subject to change without notice.
Pre-Existing Medical Conditions and Age Limits
You need to advise Onlyluxe travel and the tour operator on any pre-existing medical condition, mobility impairment and/or disability that might reasonably be expected to increase the risk of your requiring medical attention, or that might affect the normal conduct of a trip and the enjoyment of other trip members. Onlyluxe Travel and the tour operator may require an assessment of your medical condition from a qualified medical practitioner. If you fail to adequately notify the tour operator of any pre-existing medical conditions and/or disability, the tour operator reserves the right, at its reasonable discretion, to cancel your participation in a trip at any time, including after the commencement of your trip, with no right of refund if your medical condition, mobility impairment and/or disability could be reasonably expected to affect the normal conduct of the trip and the enjoyment of other trip members.
Cancellation by The Tour Operator
The walks take place in very special wilderness settings. The tour operator is at the mercy of nature in all her beauty and all her fury. The tour operator will under no circumstance knowingly place at risk the health and well-being of our guests and guides. In the case of natural threats, acts of God and the like (e.g. bushfires, impassable snow, etc) the tour operator may need to cancel a walk with very little notice. In some cases, this can occur after the walk has commenced. The tour operator reserves the right to cancel any walk up to 60 days prior to departure if a minimum of 4 walkers are unable to meet for a tour. If the tour operator needs to cancel for any reason, the cost of the walk or any other costs associated with travel to the designated pick up point, overnight accommodation, meals, etc will not be covered by the Onlyluxe Travel and therefore we strongly recommend travel insurance be taken out prior to travel.
Force Majeure
'Force Majeure' means (without restriction) any event which Onlyluxe Travel or its third party providers could not, even with due care, foresee or avoid. Force Majeure covers events such as, but not limited to, adverse weather conditions, fire and all similar events beyond our control. In the case of Force Majeure Onlyluxe Travel will not accept liability, and reserves the right to change and cancel trips.
Evacuations
In rare circumstances, due to injury or unforeseen illness, the tour operator may need to evacuate you from a remote part of the walk. Helicopter evacuations are expensive and in most cases will be at a cost to the customer.
For Australian residents, under the Australian Government Medicare Act, it is prohibited for any domestic travel insurance product to provide any financial reimbursement with regard to ambulance or air ambulance services. We therefore strongly advise our customers to take specific ambulance cover through their health insurance provider. Evacuation cost will not be covered by the Onlyluxe Travel and therefore it is also strongly recommended that our customers take out travel insurance to cover (amongst other things) the costs associated with evacuation.
Travel Insurance
In view of the heavy cancellation penalties applied to cancelled reservations in certain circumstances, we strongly recommends suitable travel insurance be purchased at the time the holding deposit is paid. We recommend insurance cover that covers any loss which may be suffered due to cancellation. We also strongly recommend comprehensive travel insurance against loss of baggage and medical expenses.
