Knocklofty Reserve

 Knocklofty Reserve

On a cool and cloudy morning we set off along the Mount Stuart Track from the parking area.

A pause to look at an information panel, showing the spot that John Glover depicted in a painting.

Towards the Frog Ponds

Heading up the Summit Loop

Looking over Rosny Point on the eastern shore to Bellerive, with the Hobart Cenotaph in the middle ground

Fungi

The Summit, where we waited for everyone to gather for a lolly break.

Looking north...

Before heading downwards 

A pool with inadvertent reflection of random passerby

A glimpse of kunanyi Mount Wellington

It was quite steep

Blackwood trees beginning to flower

We decided to explore the Glover Track

Tasmanian hemp bush (not that sort of hemp) in flower in the gully.

Asterotrichion discolor TASMANIAN HEMP BUSH

Posh ditch?

We returned by the high (original?) road

or the low road

A brief rest while taking in the view over Hobart

There were 15 Ramblers today, refreshments at Smolt in West Hobart

Map 

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