Tasmania Road Trips 1 Preview

This edition written and researched by Anthony Ham, Charles Rawlings-Way and Meg Worby

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St Marys ...... 64 PPLANLAN YYOUROUR TTRIPRIP Scamander & Beaumaris ...... 65 St Helens ...... 65 Hobart & the Welcome to Tasmania ...... 5 Tasman Peninsula ...... 68 Tasmania Map ...... 6 Hobart ...... 68 Tasmania Highlights ...... 8 Richmond ...... 86 Hobart City Guide ...... 10 Tasman Peninsula ...... 87 Need to Know ...... 12 Eaglehawk Neck & Sorell ...... 87 Port Arthur ...... 89 Launceston & the RROADOAD TTRIPSRIPS Tamar Valley ...... 90 Launceston ...... 90 East Coast Tamar Valley ...... 101 1 Tasmania 3–5 days ...17 Exeter ...... 101 Tasman George Town ...... 102 2 Peninsula 3–4 days .. 27 Low Head ...... 103 Tamar Valley 3 Gourmet Trail 4–5 days .. 35 North & Western Tasmania ...... 104 ...... 104 West Coast Deloraine 4 Wilderness Way 14 days .. 43 Shefﬁ eld & Around ...... 105 Stanley...... 105 Marrawah ...... 106 DDESTINATIONSESTINATIONS Corinna ...... 107 Strahan ...... 108 East Coast Tasmania ...... 52 Cradle Mountain– Lake St Clair National Park ...... 111 Triabunna ...... 52 Maria Island ...... 52 Swansea ...... 54 DDRIVINGRIVING ININ Coles Bay & Freycinet National Park ...... 57 AAUSTRALIAUSTRALIA ...... 111616 Bicheno ...... 61 3

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WELCOME TO TTASMANIAASMANIA

Tasmania has turned remoteness into an asset, with unique wilderness and hip arts and food scenes. If you look at a map of Tasmania, you could be forgiven for thinking that there are barely any roads at all. Think again. Thinly populated and yet home to some of Australia’s earliest settlements, Tasmania combines the human and natural worlds exceptionally well, and our road trips take you there. Hobart is the starting point for some fi ne journeys, not least to the sea cliff s and Port Arthur penal colony on the Tasman Peninsula, and the Heritage Trail that connects some fi ne old towns in the island’s heart. Elsewhere, our drives connect the dramatic east coast and the thickly forested west coast, with Cradle Mountain and the Tamar Valley Gourmet Region in between. Little wonder that Tassie ends up being many visitors’ favourite corner of the country.

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