Cradle Mountain-Lake St Clair
National Park
Welcome to our beautiful national park
Are you sitting around at home wanting to do something?
Are you wanting to get out and about?
Do you want to get out of the carbine dioxide and into the fresh air?
Also book a room at the Cradle lake MT loge.
Payment
If you get the $60 holiday pass, as you know you can’t get into Cradle Mountain NP. If you are intending to catch the shuttle bus, you will have to pay the fee $16.50 per adult and $.25 per child or family cost of $41.25, which can add up if you have many in your party.
Attractions
Lake cruises are available and licensed trout fishing is permitted in season.Scenic flights over the park are also available. Park also provides working facilities at cradle lake mt loge.
Aboriginal Culture
The Aboriginal custodians of Lake St Clair, or Leeuwenhoek (meaning ‘sleeping water’), were the Larmairremener of the Big River tribe, while Cradle Mountain and Lake Dove, or Weebonenetiner, were part of the traditional lands of the North tribe.
Plains of buttongrass (Gymnoschoenus sphaerocephalus) around Lake St Clair and in the Cradle Valley indicate where fire was used by Aborigines to manage grazing lands and attract a good supply of game animals. The relationship between Aboriginal Tasmanians, or Palawa, and their land is the inspiration behind the Lake St Clair visitor centre’s natural fibre sculpture. Woven by three Indigenous artists using buttongrass, sedges and dodder vine from the Leeuwen–Lake St Clair area, it pays respect to the nine Tasmanian Aboriginal tribes and complements the nearby Larmairremener Tabelti Walk.
Flora
vegetation is rich and diverse, including grassland, rainforest and many ancient plants such as the long-lived and endemic King Billy pine and the unusual native deciduous beech.
Fauna
The park also provides a rich habitat for wildlife, including Tasmanian devils, quolls, platypus, echidna and several bird species.
Please note:
Park Responsibilities and Rules
Mesmerizing
Spectacular
Breathtaking
Wonderful
Information sources
http://www.exploreaustralia.net.au/Tasmania/North-West/Cradle-Mountain-Lake-St-Clair-National-Park http://www.parks.tas.gov.au/indeX.aspX?base=3297 http://australia.gov.au/about-australia/australian-story/national-parks
http://www.parks.tas.gov.au/?base=3297
http://www.cradlehighlander.com.au/bushwalking.html