It's great when you discover a place to stay that ticks all the boxes - beautifully located, relaxing, peaceful, interesting, comfortable, eco-friendly, spacious and clean. Coupled with time in one of Tasmania's best National Parks - that's a Storybook Stay!
Sassafras Springs is a collection of four rustic country cottages and an old farmhouse set on a peaceful 107 acre property at Ellendale, at the base of Mount Field. Whilst we used the property as a base to explore Mount Field National Park, there was plenty to keep us occupied on the property. This included walks through the rainforest and ferny glens surrounding the pristine Sassafras Creek that runs through the property, collecting fresh hen eggs for breakfast, checking out the organic veggie garden and watching a myriad birds and wildlife. Not to mention sitting back, relaxing, listening to the babbling brook and enjoying the scenic vistas of rolling green farmland and distant mountains.
Here's some video footage to give you a taste of our experience.
The Farm
The Forest
The pristine Sassafras Creek - our source of drinking water on the Farm
Some lively critters:
The Echidna - one of our favourite Australian animals
Some amorous Blue-Tongue Lizards
Mount Field National Park
Known as ‘the park for all seasons’, Mount Field is part of the Tasmanian Wilderness World Heritage Area and home to some of the world’s tallest eucalypt forests, as well as a unique array of alpine vegetation. We started our journey with a short stroll through towering tree ferns and giant eucalypts to view the magnificent three-tiered Russell Falls - a quintessentially 'storybook' waterfall and reputedly, the most photographed waterfall in Tasmania.
After ascending a few flights of stairs, we reached the equally stunning Horseshoe Falls.
The diversity of Mount Field National Park is one of the things that make it so special. After viewing the waterfalls, we travelled up the road and into the mountainous alpine region entering a whole new ecosystem and visual landscape.
The colours of the delicate alpine plants are amazing and some of the species grow only in this very spot and nowhere else on Earth!
Wombat Walk - Alpine region
Our last stop was a beautiful circuit walk around Lake Dobson, called the Pandani Grove walk. This is a delightful green oasis nestled beneath the ski slopes of Mount Field that passes by pandani growing amidst alpine gums and treeferns. These pandani are the tallest heath in the world. Their tough, drooping foliage sheds snow and ice, helping protect them from the cold at this altitude (1000m).
Lake Dobson and Pandani Grove
Altogether - a storybook stay to round off our journey through north and west Tasmania.
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