Hi, I’m Aki and I am 10 years old. I walked the Mount Tassie Loop on 20/12/13 with my family. We started at the Tarra-Bulga National Park Visitor Centre and got onto the West Face Track. Then we climbed to the Mount Tassie Picnic Area and finally took the Duff Sawmill Heritage Trail and finished at the Visitor Centre. It took us seven and a half hours to walk the 18kms.
One of my favourite places was the waterfall where we stopped for some food and a drink. There were beautiful trees round it and the waterfall is beautiful although it is small. My other favourite place was the picnic area. The track was steep and I thought it would take forever.
The view from the picnic area was beautiful because it was high in the mountains. We had lunch there while admiring the view. There was a blackwood forest on the Duff Sawmill Heritage Trail. I felt great, because of all the birdcalls. I found a pair of Lyrebird feathers. At first I thought they were dead fern fronds and I was surprised when I noticed they were Lyrebird feathers. Everyone was very impressed.
Around the end, I realized my heels were hurting more than at the start so I decided to have a look at them and found big blisters on both heels. There were a still a few kilometres to go so I pushed on and got to the end. I felt like a hero to have finished an 18 kilometre walk! Apart from my blisters it was fun.
The most fun part about it was the stunning sight from the highest points on Mount Tassie. In all I was happy that I finished the walk.
Aki was 10 when he wrote this, after walking the Mount Tassie Loop with his family in December 2013.