Overland Track 2026- Lake Will

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Lake Will is a super short (40 mins each way) side trip between Waterfall Hut and Lake Windermere, its claim to fame is the very cool little Pencil Pines which are estimated at 400+years old, apparently they can survive up to 1200 years, these ones also had their own personal firefighters in recent years to protect them since any fire damage pretty much kills them.

We did not do the full walk since it was sleeting at times and sideways rain, did I mention my camera was wet again, yep soaked, but hats off to nikon, it has certainly survived and the viltrox 16mm lens which was at the bottom of my little bag also survived even tho getting pretty soaked 🙂

No lake swimming this day.

One of my favourite shots from the trip was taken on this side trail. The image of the lake on the left with a pencil pine on the right and the mist (or more correctly rain) blowing thru.

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Overland Track 2026-Day 2

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Waterfall Hut to Windermere Hut

Fantastic light on this day, but thats probably ’cause it was raining on and off with the occasional bit of sleet and sidewards rain 🙂 The wet trees looked fantastic and reminded me very much of the snow gums in Kosi.

Gerry’s hot tips for the rain, take kitchen rubber gloves to go over your normal gloves, get the ones with long gauntlets and then use a rubber band to lock these over your raincoat sleeves, thus preventing water from running into your sleeve and wetting your inner layer, which when using hiking poles is a problem since your arms are up and down all the time.

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Overland Track 2026-Day 1

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What do you call dangerous precipitation? a rain of terror.

or in the case of Tasmania thats just every second day.

A week out the forecast was certainly not looking good for the first couple of days, it was predicted increasing rain on about day 2, as we got closer that rain was pretty much guaranteed on day 1, all 10 to 35mm of it. I can safely say that there was definitely 35mm and more, the good news is tho, I still got the camera out to take a few pictures, I actually think I did rather good given the conditions, the camera did survive even tho it and the bag got completely soaked – mental note for next time, get a decent rain cover for my camera bag, or re-waterproof the existing one since it seemed to really not work…

Here are the highlights from day one.

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Kia Ora Hut – Overland Track.

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Kia Ora Hut – Overland Track.

Probably the nicest hut of them all, one very fat possum included who seemed to think i was gonna give him some food – i did remind him hat in NZ he would be a prime target for a fine pair of gloves or beanie 😉

Just by chance caught some Aurora on this shot – the sky did have glow to the naked eye as well.

Definitely felt vindicated for carrying that tripod all the way.

A little Overland.

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A little Overland.

A view from the highest point in Tassie. What i really love about this shot (and position) is that you can look back and see exactly where you have walked from. The funky little stub on the horizon (in the middle-ish) is Barn Bluff, to the right of that is Cradle mountain, thats where you start the walk from, on the other side of that.

On the high res version you can pretty much spot the track and the hut locations, from Waterfall Hut, to Windermere Hut and then Pelion Hut which can be seen on the right of the image just to the left of the lake (which is Arm river).

Pretty nice day to climb to the top of this Mountain (mount Ossa) previous days had been rainy and cloudy so it was nice to get a clear view.

1617m.

Not a bad track, bit busy but some very speccy scenery.

Would be a pretty epic view in winter.