Day 11: Lewis & Oxley Waterfalls and Cake

Apr 30

Written By Helen McKerral

Our pick up is scheduled for 2 pm - so what better to do after 10 days hiking - of course a day walk.

Map of route from Pine Hut Plain campsite to Oxley River and back to Mersey River Rd

Rugged mountains with a skyscape of spectacular lenticular and wave clouds — But first we are greeted with an amazing sky - wave and lenticular cloud!

Rugged mountains with wave and lenticular clouds — It’s like our own cinema!

Rustic wooden and rusty iron Pine Hut in a grassy clearing with trees and a wooded hillside beyond — Pine Hut

Shredded clouds over treed rugged mountains Tasmania — More shredded clouds.

Very dramatic!

Wild mammatus clouds over peaks with tent and seated camper right foreground — Swirling mammatus. Never seen a sky like this – wouldn’t want to be up there in our hang gliders!

Back view of man with green pack walking along fern edged shady Lees Paddock track — Heading off on a day walk to a couple of waterfalls up Lees Paddock Track.

Geoff is carrying my pack as a daypack - the big advantage of a 62L ultralight main pack that weighs just 650g!

Back view of day hiker on track through ferns and forest — Flat and pleasant walking, ideal for families and indeed we see several this morning.

Tight view of cascading falls through rock slabs — The very pretty Lewis Falls.

Tiered falls over brown rock slabs — And Oxley Falls a bit further up the track.

Sign about Pine hut Plain ownership and rules — Sign on the way out.

Warning sign one hiker at a time on Mersey river Suspension bridge — The swing bridge back over the Mersey River.

Hiker with blue pack standing in middle of narrow suspension bridge looking to left at Mersey River — One last peruse over the Mersey… our walk will soon be over.

Waiting for the bus on Mersey Forest Rd.

What a wonderful adventure!

Helen McKerral

Day 10: Pine Hut Plain