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Standard Ensuite room (Sgl/Dbl/Twn) – get it while it is HOT! Use ‘DiscoverTas Holiday Deal’ as promo code. Smithton is an ideal base to tour around the North West of Tassie.
Discover Tasmania’s beautiful Autumn … when Autumn leaves fall so do our package prices! 5 Nights, includes entry for 2 to MONA.
Luxury apartments $320
Seaview Rooms $145 and
Standard Rooms from $110.
Join a lantern-lit walking tour to experience the Port Arthur Historic Site by night. It is a very different place after sunset, full of mystery and intrigue.
Robert Pennicott’s original and multi-award winning Bruny Island Cruise. Travel up close to high sea cliffs, coastal landforms and abundant sea and coastal wildlife.
Join Robert Pennicott’s legendary team for an award winning cruise from Port Arthur to Eaglehawk Neck. See spectacular sea cliffs, Tasman Island and sea and coastal wildlife.
Why not spoil yourself? Take $30 off Window and Captain’s Upper Deck tickets on this luxury, half day cruise where magnificent marine scenery will leave you spellbound.
Book a tour at Hollybank Treetops Adventure and you’ll receive a free photo from your journey! Simply mention this ad when booking.
My friend is a fly fishing magician. His magic qualities refer not so much to his ability to coax fish onto his fly, but rather his uncanny ability to make himself invisible for a 10-day chunk of February each year. Magic man annually disappears from Victoria into the Tasmanian highlands on a fly fishing expedition. [...]
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On a trip to western Tassie I was reading The Peaks of Lyell by historian Geoffrey Blainey. The great man had written ‘there was a time when every British investor who knew anything about mining shares knew the name of Mt Lyell’. I couldn’t help but imagine (below) that an erstwhile London chap might have [...]
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The sea eagle is lording over the sky. She’s up high in a mostly blue-sky world above the seducingly calm Arthur River and our cruising boat. Occasionally I lose her. The eagle’s belly and parts of her wings are white as the intermittent clouds and whether the camouflage is intentional or not the disappearing act [...]
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Want to catch a glimpse of a shy wild platypus? Your best bet is to head to Latrobe, platypus capital of the world. Latrobe is a small township (population 2700) and beyond the quaint main street are delicate streams and waterways home to some special furry mammals. All you need to do is pick yourself [...]
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Love the drive from Hobart to Orford. Most often take the route through the village of Richmond. Stick to horse and cart speed through it. Ponder the magic, the luck that has left this colonial seducer on the doorstep of the capital. Right turn. Pass over the no less seductive stone bridge, the Coal River [...]
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It is just a 30-minute drive to Westbury from Launceston. For those cruising to Deloraine, Mole Creek, Cradle Mountain and elsewhere, the detour off the A1 to Westbury arrives before you’ve had time to find the rhythm of the road or heard a CD spin its way to a favourite song. You’re not ready to [...]
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