A drive north from the Tasman Peninsula, stopping briefly to pick up some tasty local smoked fish, takes us through an uncharacteristically dry part of Tasmania. Brown, not green. After nearly a week in the green south of the island the change is quite striking. National park to national park. Peninsula to peninsula. Our destination is the Freycinet National Park, which occupies practically the whole of the Freycinet Peninsula, itself named after yet another French navigator, Louis Claude de Saulces de Freycinet - two names were just never enough, were they ? The peninsula offers several walking tracks, many of which take days to complete - instead we are here to walk a short loop, about fourteen kilometres long, which links two of the National Park's most famous features. The track, which starts not far from
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