Our next stop was Lake St. Clair situated within the Cradle Mountain-Lake St. Clair National Park. It's Australia's deepest freshwater lake, with a maximum depth of 174 metres (571 feet). The lake forms the southern end of the park. The famous Overland Track, a multi-day bushwalk, that begins at Mount Cradle (Our visit on Day 4), and ends at Cynthia Bay, our viewpoint today, on the southern shore of Lake St. Clair.
We arrived to find 50 or more heavily loaded rucksacks lined up on the board walk. Their owners were all refreshing themselves having just completed the 5-day, 65km trek from Mt Cradle.
Just enough time to take a few photos and then on to a short toilet stop at Queenstown - but this time in Tasmania not New Zealand where I was a year ago!
Queenstown has a long mining industry and is the home to the West Coast Wilderness Railway through the rainforest between Queenstown and Strahan.
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