Friday’s Footprints – Rocky Cape to Sister’s Beach Hike

So far, after four and a half years of living here, the hike over the Sisters Hills between Rocky Cape National Park and Sisters Beach, really rates as my favourite day out. It’s not a well known, much traversed hike – more likely find local people than tourists on it – that is if you see another soul at all!

We first went because my mother was insisting that we had to do it before she fell off the twig or went all doddery on us 😀

So we got a bunch of family together –

Ranging from kids up to 70 something, off we went! Packed picnics, water bottles – and jackets etc, because even though it was summer this is Tasmania & it does weird things with the weather

Firstly you have to go up a bit…

Once we got a bit of height the views started getting pretty good.

Sometimes it got a bit swampy

Tiny flowers bloomed along the path

Suddenly we found ourselves overlooking an amazing rocky shore landscape – which was phase two of the hike!

We got down to the bottom where there was a unanimous decision to break out lunch and sit down for a while.

Sated, we all started the long, and at times challenging scramble over the rocky landscape

Often getting to each little cove, meant a hike up into the bush again to then come back down to the shore

The colour and formation of the rocky shores were fabulous – but presented a reasonable challenge to cross at times

When we reached little sandy beaches it was quite a relief on the feet – the sun even came out once or twice!

The beaches were full of shells, coral, rocks & seaweed to fossick through

The landscape is pretty wild looking to me

But so beautiful

When we reached this point overlooking the beautiful long stretch of beach, we were all very keen to get down there and take our shoes off

A final walk past and over rocks…

Seriously – after several hours of hiking over rough terrain a walk that seemed straight up was a bit mean!!

Once at the top it was brilliant to look back over our footsteps and see where we started way off in the distance.

So – if you come to visit, pack your hiking boots and raincoat – we’ll probably drag you along on this adventure!

Cheers!