Ginger and Ed's Excellent Adventures

We haven’t carried a backpack for more.than overnight in more than a decade. Carrying everything you will need for a multiple day trek requires some conditioning and practice. We wanted to do this sort of trip again but also ease back into it. The three capes experience seemed like the perfect opportunity. There are huts to.sleep in with cooking facilities so there is no need to carry a tent, sleeping pad, or stove. And the distance ea c h day seemed like we could do it.

The trek is located on the Tasman Peninsula and follows the coastline around from Denmans Cove to Fortescue Bay.

It began with a boat tour from Port Arthur out to Cape Raoul, sea caves, and then to the trailhead.

We landed at Denmans Cove, the official start of the track. We began our walk along the coastline gradually gaining altitude.

After two miles we reached our first camp for the night at Surveyors Hut. We met other walkers and enjoyed a relaxing dinner as we thought about the next three days ahead.

The next morning after breakfast we packed our packs and began our walk to the Munro Hut. Our route took us along the high coastline towards the south.

We then cut inland for a bit before turning off to the south to our camp for the night at the Munro hut.

The view to the west from the deck of the hut had a view of our last days walk.

The second morning we ate and began our out and back trek to Cape Pillar. The trail led up.and down and often out to the edge of the cliffs that towered as much as 1000 feet above the crashing waves.

We decided to stop at the blade, a sliver of rock that juts out above the ocean.

Even though the cape was a bit further, we knew we would have to backtrack all the way to the hut and then carry our packs another hour to the next and final hut.

We had a great view of Tasman Island. Due to the remote location and difficult access, during the early years the lighthouse keeper had all their teeth removed so that they wouldn’t have issues with cavities and infections.

We walked back to the Munro Hut and picked up our packs for an hour walk to the Retakunna hut. This was our last night with the group we had walked the track with.

After dinner and talking with new friends we went to bed.

The track builders did an amazing job and also left little surprise easter eggs along the way. These included creative benches and a Tasmanian devil under a rocking bench.

I n the morning we began our final walk to Fortescue Bay via Cape Hauy.

We enjoyed views looking back along the clifftop route we walked the previous day.

We finally came to the end where a bus took us back to our car at Port Arthur.

But not before a quick swim in the ocean.