Ascents in Forestier Peninsula

Highly caffeinated and parked at the sign for cape surville walk. We head down a road then into the scrub loosely following chasm creek eventually descended into the creek (10 m static rope helped here but we maybe have gone a harder way ) then slid down a large log where we were greeted by Walter the seal who was pissed to be woken up. Then the climbing began! Rock quality is average to start then turns to dolerite some short swims required, passing some beautiful features, caves, a remarkably large arch & a waterfall (recommend drinking here ) some amazing unbroken sections of climbing superb rock,the swims get longer the further you get but nothing longer than 30m. The rock is really varied at some point it turns to granite then even some short sections of limestone at the end ! It was a relief to arrive at deep glen bay, we were quite exhausted by that point.(I personally was abit dehydrated) it should be noted that this traverse is very serious and committing, definitely recommend bringing a PLB, wet suits were very nice to have & so was 10m of static rope, especially when your mate does some silly shit and gets sucked into a kelp filled chimney of doom. Grade wise it was on average 14-17 but some sections were about 20 mostly deepwater, but it’s definitely a choose your own adventure if it gets too hard or sketchy you just go swimming. I wouldn’t do this In anything but perfect conditions. All up it’s my favourite adventure I’ve done in tassie !!! We started at 8.00am & got to deep glen around 6.00pm *it was very nice having some supply’s dropped at deep glen bay.

Slow start, jogging at first and then walking down the beautiful forest to deep glen bay, filled up our water bottles at the river and started traversing above the VERY deep water on superb granite, minimal swimming required at the start then the zawns/caves become larger requiring a fair few large swims, even a 12m high plunge into the water. Then at around half way the granite ends and the cliff has a lot less vertical sections & so progress is faster. Some very serious swims are required to pass large dark caverns, one in particular requires you to swim some distance from the cliff to avoid being sucked inside. There are some sections of climbing but it’s mostly rock hopping ,scaling the kelp becomes harder & harder. Arriving at eaglehawk neck was a very rewarding moment and so were the hot chips moments later.

Compared to the section from chasm creek to deep glen it’s not as good, it’s physically easier but feels more serious and committing. A truly amazing tassie adventure