Mount Amos

Mount Amos is a 454 m peak in the Hazards on the Freycinet Peninsula, known for the view from its granite summit down to Wineglass Bay. The payoff is a close, high-angle look at the bay and the surrounding peninsula, but getting it means a steep, exposed scramble, not a quick walk to a lookout. Choose this only if you're fit, sure-footed and comfortable with heights and hands-on climbing; the Wineglass Bay Lookout is the easier alternative.

The marked track starts at the Wineglass Bay/Walking Tracks Car Park, reached from Coles Bay by the C302. It climbs through scrub before steepening across exposed granite; some upper sections need your hands, and coming back down takes just as much care. The official estimate is about 3.6 km return and three hours. Many walkers take longer, so leave a half-day window.

Don't attempt it while the rock is wet or rain is falling. The smooth slabs can be slick even when they look dry. Good-grip footwear matters; poles are of little use on the steep rock. A Tasmania national parks pass is required. Public toilets are at the start car park; there are no facilities on the climb, and the route isn't accessible.

Mount Amos is part of the Hazards, one of two eroded granite blocks that form the Freycinet Peninsula. The park's granite landscape has been shaped over more than 400 million years. On the climb, the broad slabs underfoot make that geology immediate: you're scrambling across the exposed rock that gives this part of the peninsula its shape.