FREEEEEDOM! It wasn’t until the aeroplane door made that comforting screwing-shut noise that I actually believed it – after twice being rescheduled due to COVID-19 outbreaks, I was finally leaving NSW for the first time in over a year. Not that I was bored of my home state – in the last 12 months I’d seen more of it than ever before and loved it – but when your primary passion is bushwalking, Tasmania will always beckon.
My original two-week, multi-hike itinerary had, thanks to the delays, been reduced to a single walk – a four-day exploration of Walls of Jerusalem National Park with Tasmanian Expeditions. But what a walk! As an Overland Track veteran I was keen to see more of central Tassie, and the soaring cliffs and alpine moors of Walls NP, gazetted in 1981 and incorporated into the Tasmanian Wilderness World Heritage Area the following year, fitted the bill perfectly.
Dolerite cliffs
Growing up in Cornwall, Britain’s toe-box, I was looking forward to being immersed
