June 2026 - Calvert's Lagoon

It was a beautiful sunny cold winter day and 13 folk showed up for this walk, organised this month by Angie with thanks to Warren for some helpful local knowledge. Participants were: Angie, Gerwyn, Wayne, Warren, Caroline, Fin and friend Jane, Prem, Philip, Bob, Gary, Summa and Graham. The plan basically followed walk #14 as described in Hobart’s Best Bush, Coast and City Walks.

We met up at 10.30 at the Goat Beach car park at the end of Calverts Lagoon Road. After some initial back-tracking, we found the track and set off anti-clockwise around the Lagoon.

Expansive views, samphire underfoot, wallaby and devil poo, and distant birds to admire.

Gary and Bob decided to take a short-cut across the Lagoon, but unfortunately they missed the track to the Beach.

The track led us through some delightful scrub with banksias and other flowering bushes, and crossed the Calverts Lagoon Road on the way to the Beach, where we stopped for a group photo.

We stopped for morning snacks at the south end of Calverts Beach below the Goat Bluff cliffs. And watched the surfers ride the incoming waves.

Fin, Jane, Prem and Graham decided to climb Goat Bluff and enjoyed the views.

While the rest of us walked back along Calverts and Goat Beach to the carpark, where we met up with Bob just before 1pm.

Then off to Angie Sues restaurant in Lauderdale for a smashing lunch.

May 2026 - Clarence Coastal Trail to Roches Beach

Gerwyn, with some assistance from Fin, organised this one. We had been watching the weather coming in earlier in the week with some doubt, but Thursday foretold Friday’s fair weather and so we gave the go-ahead. We were ten today: Gerwyn, Wayne, Di, David, Fin, Caroline, Graham, Dorothy, Angie and Maryanne. We met at 10.30am at the carpark at the very southern end of Seven Mile Beach and took the coastal track to Roches Beach. For the first part of the trail we stayed low on the rocks alongside the beach, led by Caroline who knew this path.

We then climbed up to join the main path.

It was a short path, and well-trodden, with plenty of fellow walkers and their dogs to say hello (hello, hello) to.

Some pics — including a well-made stone bridge, some small magpie-lark like birds (pee wees?), water for walkers and dogs near an unusual (to us) house, some curious (to us) ant nests, and an incontrovertibly beautiful sky!

We took our snacks with a bit of a squeeze around the picnic table at Roches Beach.

Then headed back via the bush track.

All up, we walked about 8 kms, and took about 2 hours (including our snack stop). Probably more talkin’ than walkin’ – but jeez it was good to be out!

There was an animated debate about the best place for coffee/lunch, and at last we set off up Surf Rd to find a recommended new cafe. Success! We found Tidal Cafe, a converted container near the plant nursery on Surf Road.

We were lucky to have arrived before the 2 pm closing that we hadn’t known about. Good coffee, beautiful pastries (no joy for our coeliac walker-talker), plenty of seating, and a nice cruisy, outdoorsy, push-bikie, walkie, talkie vibe. The track notes start at Roches Beach, but we seemed to manage it without walking backwards: Clarence Coastal Trail - Roches Beach to Seven Mile Beach Track | Greater Hobart Trails