From Hobart: Mt Wellington Pinnacle 2 Hour Small Group Tour

At the nominated time on your booking, meet at the Tasmanian Travel and Information Centre (20 Davey Street). We take a guided scenic drive through historic Hobart. Then passing through South Hobart where we view Mt Wellington towering over us and the Cascade brewery building dating back to 1824 (and share one of its stories).

Then we continue our drive through the tall Eucalyptus forests and through the town of Ferntree with its lush well watered cool temperate gardens occasionally covered in snow, before passing The Springs. Here we see a quick trailer view of Bruny Island a tiny taste of what is to come.

Next we pass the Chalet, a rustic dolerite bluestone shelter hut and behold the colourful and resilient snow gums, flowering banksia trees, a waterfall and views of Hobart. David your Guide has studied botany, geology and water resources at a local university in Hobart and is well able to explain this unique mountain environment. He has experienced this mountain since young and has plenty of stories to share.

Now above the tree line the wheels again do the climbing and you do the viewing, with a scenic drive to the summit 1,270m/4,180ft (also known as the Pinnacle). Up here the views only get better, now including some of the mountains of the Tasmanian Wilderness World Heritage Area. You get 30 minutes free time to take in stunning views from the Hobart and South West Wilderness viewing platforms, and see unique Tasmanian alpine vegetation and abrupt rock pillar formations. At the summit, you will be filled with astonishment, to be launched forth into an ocean of natural goodness where you can see no limits.

We return to the Tasmanian Travel Information Centre with further views, mountain and forest scenery, and gripping stories on the way down. We arrive back two hours after your tour commenced leaving you plenty of time to explore Hobart.