Curio Bay
Thursday 12 July 2018
Curio Bay
After reading Dennis Jeffery’s account of a walk to
Tumbledown Point, I decided to use his return route as the basis for getting to
Curio Bay. Once past the farm there was a gate on our right, but the wide track
we were on continued ahead. It seemed more likely that this should be followed,
but after a short distance the waypoint aimed for wasn’t any closer and pointed
of to the southwest.
Nevertheless, as the track meandered it got closer for a period and maybe the track would bend towards it in due course, but it still seemed a long way distant. Eventually it became apparent that we were going in wrong direction, and this became very apparent when the park boundary sign loomed up. It was quite some backtrack to do, a bit over 2k and over an hour lost, before we were back on track at that gate. I should have taken more care when first getting there and followed the GPS.
Wave at Curio Bay |
Nevertheless, as the track meandered it got closer for a period and maybe the track would bend towards it in due course, but it still seemed a long way distant. Eventually it became apparent that we were going in wrong direction, and this became very apparent when the park boundary sign loomed up. It was quite some backtrack to do, a bit over 2k and over an hour lost, before we were back on track at that gate. I should have taken more care when first getting there and followed the GPS.
A pad was discovered that bypassed the gate and as soon as this
ended there was a big blue sign indicating Tasman National Park. All was
straight forward from then on until reaching the Curio Bay junction. The
walking between these two spots was nice with a variety of forest type and long
flat ridge top sections making pleasant walking.
At the Curio junction however it wasn’t so pleasant. An
overgrown pad went through very wet bushes and resulted in us getting lots of
it on our clothes. The dominant bush was Calytrix and I have never seen so much
of it before. When Curio Bay finally came in sight a rough pad lead down to
rocks and they provided a sunny dry spot for lunch.
Curio Bay
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