Do you ever go on those walks where you think, hmmm, I should have worn trousers? That's quite common in the summer in Australia, unless you're walking in the city. Everything just seems kinda snaky. Like, real snakes might wiggle across the path. But when it's hot and you just start walking, sometimes you forget, until you're half way down and track stomping and hoping like hell you won't encounter a wiggling stick.

This walk takes you from the campground at one end of Bruny Island through scrub to a tiny rocky beach called Beaufort Bay, where driftwood washes up and giant kelp sweeps back and forth. Having already arrived at the end of the beach, we only had to do a little bit, and we didn't walk the whole track, because, you know, snakes.

Image Source from Parks Tasmania

To get there, we had to 'bush bash' a little, and got a little lost. The track was very overgrown! In fact, we had to get a phone out and try to see if google would throw us up a blue dot. But the thing is, even if it starts seeming a bit sketchy, you gotta finish a walk, right?

As you go through the scrub you can see views in either direction. Birds dart in and out of indigenous scrub and it's all rather pretty.

At the end we stopped for a drink and dark chocolate, but we decided to head back rather than head further along the coast. The prospect of encountering a Tassie black snake was just too much of a deterrent, and we had the beautiful waters the very calm cosy corner to swim in.