We took some panoramas of the view from the point.

Looking north towards Storm Bay.

Looking south towards Adventure Bay and South Bruny.

What goes up must come down. We started retracing our steps. The neat thing about the Cape Elizabeth track is that you can return via Miles Beach if the tide is low. There are big rocks right down to the water, so if the tide is high you can’t get down there at all.

We scrambled around the rocks and posed under a really cool natural arch.

There was actually a secret passage through the rocks above that we took at one point.

Rodd found a fossil!

I didn’t get a photo of the worst bit, mostly because I was concerned with timing my trip around the rocks to coincide with the waves. Even with taking our shoes off and rolling up our pants, most of us got pretty wet. (Somehow Rodd soaked one pant leg and not the other!)

He took a photo of me through another natural arch.

Looking back, I returned the favour.

Me heading into another narrow passageway. This one was deceptive because it looks dry at the start, but halfway through the waves would start rushing in!

Yep. Got wet again.

At last we were past the rocks and able to put our socks and shoes back on. That high point in the far off distance? That’s where we ate lunch!

Selfie on a spectacularly empty beach. I think we only saw two other people the whole time!

The entire hike probably took us around 6 hours, but that’s with plenty of stopping to take photos, munch granola bars, and then a break at the top to have lunch. I’m not gonna lie – it was a little more exercise than I was expecting! (I was so entranced by the beautiful photos on the website that I glossed over the mention of the 5-6 hour walk.) But it was well worth it, and even with my dodgy knees I managed just fine. We saw amazing scenery, cockatoos, an echidna, a pademelon (little wallaby), rocks, fossils, shells, and thankfully no snakes.

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