Peninsula Circuit: plan water first, distance second

This is a 27 km, 2–3 day Grade 3 circuit, not a hut-to-hut with showers. Camps are small, free and unbooked. You carry everything. The middle day via Mount Graham is the hard one (6–8 hours, steep). The first western day to Hazards and Cooks is easier walking and the usual place to settle the pack.

There is no extra walk permit. A Parks Pass is still required. There is no southern pickup. You finish at the Walking Tracks Car Park where you began.

Good fit: self-sufficient overnight walkers who already know the day walks, can carry dry-camp water, and will walk anti-clockwise because official notes say so.

Poor fit: first-time Freycinet visitors who have not stood on the lookout; parties whose only stove plan dies on a Total Fire Ban; anyone who wanted Wineglass photos and a Coles Bay dinner. Use the two-day Coles Bay itinerary instead.

Anti-clockwise: car park → Hazards Beach (~7 km / 2 h) → Cooks Beach (~5 km / 1.5 h) → Wineglass via Mount Graham (~11 km / 6–8 h) → car park (~4 km / 1.5 h). Optional Mount Freycinet side-trip about 1.5 km return / 2 h, steep — plan it, do not add it on a whim.

The western days are the easier walking. The Graham day is the one that needs daylight, water and fresh legs. Many parties combine Hazards and Cooks on day one.

Car-park tap at the start/finish — fill every bottle and bladder before you walk away. Cooks Hut tank — no guarantee, worse in summer; hut is emergency use only. Lagunta Creek at Hazards is seasonal and should be boiled if you use it. Wineglass walker camp should be planned as dry.

Winter is quieter and creeks behave better. Summer parties should pack as if every tank is empty. That is the competent assumption. If Cooks is dry and you do not have Wineglass-camp litres, turn around on the western side.

Fuel-stove only. On Total Fire Ban days even stoves are banned — pack a cold-food plan or do not start. This is not a campfire walk.

You also need a PLB or satellite messenger, printed official notes, mosquito protection, and intentions left with someone not on the walk. Reception is patchy. 000 needs a signal.

Official pages do not publish a carrier map. Secondary sources describe patchy in-park reception, better in Coles Bay. Install Emergency+ before you leave home. You can turn back on the early western days; the Graham day is a poorer place to discover you under-packed water.

Walker camps are not a booking desk. If the group is already cooked at Hazards, sit, drink, and decide whether Cooks is still honest. Pride is not a water source.

After the lookout. After a day on the Hazards Circuit if you can. Not as a first-visit surprise. Not as overflow when Coles Bay is full.

Printable skeleton: the peninsula overnight itinerary. Water and stove kit: Gear. Then re-read official walk notes the week you leave, not the week you booked the flights.