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port davey track(tas) 14-Dec-2005 At 8:02:52 PM tufa_humpa

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hi cparsons

A group of 6 of us walked the sth coast to melaleuca and then up the PDT to Scott's Peak about 7 years ago. Unforgettable. The PDT is very underrated, the solitude even with the 5 of us that made it that far was still remarkable. On the PDT we only saw 1 other person, a tiger walker that passed us going the other way without even nodding hello.

gotta agree with pretty much all of JamesMc's description.
We did a side trip up Mt Hesperus (i think it was called) at the west end of the arthurs where we met a 60 yo Norweigian with no toes (lost them mountaineering in Peru), somehow he still descended much faster than any of us. That side trip capped off a beautiful walk that in its own way rivalled the sth coast track.

We did the Bathurst harbour water crossing, with 5 of us and 5 bloody heavy big packs, and that in itself is a story. There was a boat on each side, like on the sth coast track crossing. But with so many of us and tiredness impinging on our logic we stacked the boat with 2 packs and 3 people one way on the first crossing. After doing the first boat swap, I lost the paper scissors rock game and was the loser that had to swim behind the boat whilst the other 2 rowed with the 3 remaining packs. Despite the cold it was going well till a tour group speed boat came from nowhere and yelled at me that they'd seen some sharks not far up the harbour. I swam faster....

You may want to plan the crossing a bit better than we did.

Also would be worth having a look into the sth west coast track outta Melaleuca. We did a 1 day side trip to the first beach along that route from Mel and it looked beautiful, and there were muscles on the rocks off-shore that i can't recall but we might have illegally sampled a few on our bland as pasta dinner that night.

Let us know if you head there would be great to here about your adventures

TufaH