Dolomieu Point Fortescue, Tasmania, Australia
By red tag on 20-May-11. Waypoint GC2VX23

Big thanks to red tag for creating this cache! Your effort brought an extra spark of excitement to our geocaching quest. This discovery was find number 1,245 for us, marking another memorable moment in our adventure. Living and traveling full-time across Australia in our Coaster Bus, we're always on the lookout for caches to uncover. To see more of our travels, feel free to follow our journey HERE...

Today is day 2 at Fortescue Bay and Tasman NP. Yesterday we walked to Cape Huay and today its the turn of Bivouac Bay as we attempt to do as many of the 60 Great Short Walks as we can whilst here in Tasmania. This is walk 34.My legs are like lead after yesterdays walk, clearly my calves do not get enough of a work out most of the time! I didnt want to get out of bed, but eventually made myself ready for the walk. Im not sure how this one (to Bivouac) ended up being on the 60GSW as we didnt rate it that highly, however we were so glad that you placed this cache. This was the best part of the walk, heading up onto the peninsula the views were spectacular. This should all be part of the 60GSW! We found an amazing spot right on the cliffs about 150m from the cache where we spent a glorious hour soaking it all in. Some guys were attempting to climb the stack below us which was fascinating. The views out to Cape Huay were special, loved it. Amazing weather again, we feel so lucky. Ate our lunch here, awesome spot.So thank you for placing this cache as it made my trek all the more worthwhile today. Quick easy find at GZ and then to flex those calf muscles and trek back to the motorhome which we could see across the bay for most of the walk back. Took lots of pictures of fungi on the way back, fascinating!TFTC red tag

TFTC- beautiful spot. Amazing walk

Hello red tag thank you for the cacheI have walked out as far as Bivouac Bay many years ago.The day started with a slight drizzle then becoming heavy rain, then for some time it was lovely and warm. But as I closer to your cache it was heavy rain again.The cache was quickly found in good condition.By the time I got back to Bivouac Bay it was a lovely day for the rest of the walk except for the walk along the beach where a hail storm opened up.The walk registration hut was full of wet walkers.Now for a wet trip homeMy thought are with you on the loss of half of your team.Found on Saturday, 14 October 2023 at 1204**TFTC**

Spending the weekend camping at Fortescue Bay with friends and a couple of us decided to go for a walk to this spot. What an absolutely glorious day for it, and the views were just incredible! In fact the whole weekend was beautiful weather and we were very lucky, especially considering what every weekend has been like for several months! Anyway, this was a very enjoyable walk and a good bit of exercise to blow the cobwebs away from a fun night around the fire! We'd been out to Canoe Bay before but never ventured further along the track until today. It was good to take note of the nearby camping area for a future overnighter. For some reason it took a while to find the cache but we got there in the end! TFTC!Cheers,The Hancock Clan

That was an effort! red tag, what were you thinking when you placed this cache?

Our main aim for today was to get the Virtual for our 13,000th geocache but this cache was so tempting and we thought we would see how we felt after getting the virtual. The Virtual was a breeze and we thought we would be able to do this one in no time!! We were certainly wrong with that! After leaving Canoe Bay we were enjoying the walk going over 2 bridges and one a suspension bridge. Things were going great and then the hill came and another and we weren’t making any real progress to the cache location. We had read that the time to return was 4 hours to Bivouac Bay, that should be easy. What we didn’t realise was that we needed to go further than Bivouac Bay which meant up and up and up.....Oh dear!!!

My only thought was that the return trip would be a lot easier and quicker, which was true! When we came to the final turn the views became obvious and the count down to the cache began. We were so glad to find the cache and then we sat looking at the fantastic views! Lots of photos were taken.

For this cache we did 12kms in 4 hours of walking but it took 5 hours with the stops for photos and rest times.

We have to give this one a favourite point for the challenge and definitely for the views!

TFTC red tag!

[resus] amazing views rock climbing mecca again TFTC

Perfect day for the hike from Fortescue bay to eaglehawk. Found this with surfsparkle and team.

Found

Fantastic walk. Had to make it an early one as there is bad weather coming in this afternoon.
TFTC

After completing the Cape Raoul walk this morning, I decided to do the Bivouac Bay walk this afternoon. On arrival, I checked the GC app and saw this cache was nearby and off I went to find it. Some beautiful views along this walk, TFTC.

Goodbye 2018 today!!!!
stay the camping for few days with family, and visit my dad's memory gravel, we growing up this camping area every year summer...
Last year I was planned go there but my knee very hurt from another cache "aHauy there!" half way turn back to camping... BUMPER!!!
Today finally make go there, wow awesome long walked to top of hills, so beautiful view but very very strong windy, good enjoyed return!!!
sign the log but little damp..
TFTC and fav pts from me!!!

Have been wanting to do this cache for a long time. Set of early to get away before all the campers awoke. Much nicer walk than the Cape Hauy walk as only came across 8 people in total and they were only in the last couple of k's. Saw 3 snakes. Cache in good condition. TFTC

I've been to Bivouac Bay at least twice in the last few years, but on neither occasion has there been the opportunity to head up onto the cliffs. This time the weather was good, and the timing was right, and so my niece and I headed up the hill (only later realising why the distance from the cache kept increasing for a while!). In the late afternoon summer sunlight the views were fantastic, and the cache was soon in hand. So, for this trip, I get not so much a smiley as the Dolomieu Grin (with apologies for stretching a pun about as far as it ought to go). Thanks, red tag, for giving us the incentive to go a little further and enjoy the view.

Yay - we're the first for the new year to find this one! Gorgeous walk on a nice cool Tassie day. MillsMob total took the hike to Bivouac Bay, and the more intrepid pair headed on for the cache. After a solid uphill slog we found ourselves no closer to the cache than we were at Bivouac....but then the views just got better and better. Incredible stuff! Easy find once on location, and well worth the effort. TFTC - a fav from us for the views and the effort to get this one published

We were down at Fortescue Bay camping for one night for a birthday party. Everybody was having too much fun at the campsite to convince them to come and find this cache, so it was a solo walk and find.
Great walk and the view just spectacular. After the find I sat for awhile watching a pod of dolphins.
Thanks red tag for hiding a cache here.

Walked in with Geoson from Fortescue Bay to camp down at Bivouac Bay. Ran up to get cache late in day. A quick find. Spectacular views. TFTC

Amazing views! Not found in two years, still there!

Great to knock over a cache that has gone 24 months unfound. We camped down below at Bivouac Bay, walking up here this morning to find the cache.

Great views.

Cheers

Oh noo...i couldn't find it anymore. But enjoyed the awesome view!

great walk, four seasons in 1 day. amazing views of cape hauy, hypolite rock the thumbs. took chickens left pirate sticker. TFTC,

A good walk from Fortescue Bay and an excellent lookout for Cape Hoay. We had walked to Cape Hoay two days ago on our way to Cape Pillar so it was interesting and even more impressive to see it from a different viewpoint. TFTC. A favourite.

Felt like a walk to clear the head and what better than to conquer another cache on the Peninsula in the process.
The last time we were at Canoe Bay was in the boat in 1999, so walking out this way was a little jaunt down memory lane.
The walk was quite spectacular. The varied terrain and speccy views are amazing. Its such a nice time of year with all the wildflowers out and the ferns shooting new fronds. We saw a number of orchids.
The walk did take us longer than expected, probably because of all the photo stops, although our GPS shows that it is 12.83k return from the carpark to the cache, and I think I'll be sore tomorrow!.
We enjoyed lunch looking out over the water, Cape Hauy and the Hippolytes.
Thanks red tag, a most enjoyable find.

Having trekked the other side of the bay yesterday this cache was in our sights today. A very nice walk that took us through varied forests and around little and big bays and up and down mossy hills and past a shipwreck. A cache with everything, views, relics (other than us) and a location we had never been to. Thanks red tag for bringing us here.

Found with my 9-year old on his first overnight walk. We spent the night at Bivouac Bay and then zipped up the hill to enjoy the views. Thanks for the cache, it's a great spot!

Very beautiful hike with spectacular views at the place of the cache. Be careful because saw 3 Tigersnakes on the way ...!

It was the first fine day for a little while so I set out to grab this cache. I walked the uphills and jogged the flats and downhills to the cache - except for the very rocky or very slippery sections, as I was on my own and difinitely din't want to have an accident, As I approached GZ my GPS was pointing in the opposite direction and saying about 300 metres. I was about to turn around when it came to its senses and pointed me the right way. I went a little past, took some nice photos and then turned around and found and logged the cache. I walked all the way back but my time was about the same! What should that tell me? When I was nearly back at the beach there was an old friend sunning themself on the track. With some persuasion they moved on and I was able to complete my journey. Thanks for the visit.

What great photos taken by old saint - makes me what to go and find this one now. Other than it's dark outside, raining, freezing and generally unpleasant I would be off like a rocket. Great photos and log Oldsaint, inspiring.

Hi red tag
On a day where it was predicted for the world to end due to a massive earthquake, I wasn't going to sit at home and just wait for it to happen. I figured it would be better to go enjoying myself rather than sitting around waiting for it to happen - what a way to go; caching in the hope of an FTF.
So I set out for GZ with high hopes of that FTF. The track had been heavily used of late; was full of recent footprints heading towards GZ. Hope started to fade. Who has beaten me? Has Reborn taken his bike; no bike tracks, maybe not!! DnA! have friends down here; were they in one of the cars I passed on the road on the way in?? Had Albydangles gone on the hunt?? red tag set the cache- no worries there; Maybe Dippi wanted a long walk?? Many doubts crept in!!
Boy the views are great, stopped a lot to take photographs - maybe some one is heading in from Waterfall Bay; more doubts! Took 188 photographs.
Arrive at Canoe Bay and not far to go now, still passing round Canoe Bay and still the track keeps going round that bay; those blokes in the boat are after flathead and said "He's come a long way!!"
Onward after photographing the boat to the camp site and over the creek.
Up and around; some great mossy areas on the way.
Arrived at GZ, undid the box after falling over when my left knee collapsed under me. A clean sheet, doubts not warranted; FTF to OldSaint. Found and logged at 1428hrs. THANKS RED TAG!!!
A great walk, great views, lovely sounds of the birds all the way, bush finches flitting through the bracken and trees, a few roo, rock fishermen, memories of tuna fishing around the Hippos, the screech of Rosellas from deep within the bush and no end to the world; plus an FTF what a great Saturday afternoon - what more could OldSaint hope for?
You may want to allow a little longer than three hours if your a keen photographer or if you take the geo-kids.
Have now walked both sides of Fortescue Bay to its extremities; it's definitely quicker by boat. Tee Hee Hee!!
A cache that deserves a favourite tick and one all should do.
Thanks for the FTF, a sweaty body, good memories, great pics and the tired legs; Cheers OldSaint.

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