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Allendale Gardens And Rainforest Walks - Edith Creek  

Allendale Gardens are beautifully landscaped gardens located next to temperate rainforest in Tasmania’s far north-west. The two and a half hectares (6 acres) of landscaped gardens and lawns sit beside 26 hectares (16 acres) of cool temperate rainfo ...

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Annsleigh Gardens and Cafe - Burnie  

The award-winning Annsleigh Gardens and Café is located at Burnie, on Tasmania’s northwest coast. The Gardens are a 10-minute (10 kilometre) drive south of Burnie’s city centre. Described as the ‘garden of ideas’, the two-hectare (five-acre ...

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Arthur River - Arthur River  

The tiny west coast settlement of Arthur River is the northern entry to the Western Explorer to Corinna. From Arthur River you can also head into the forest for four-wheel drive explorations or take a cruise on the lower reaches of the Arthur River. ...

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Burnie Farmers' Market - Burnie  

The Burnie Farmers Market in Tasmania's north west includes around 50 stalls selling both produce and crafts. Buy the freshest and best local produce at the Burnie Farmers Market. Fancy a rabbit pie? Feel the need for an alpaca scarf? Short of wildf ...

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Burnie Golf Club - Burnie  

Burnie Golf Club is a nine hole golf course with undulating tree lined fairways with some hills. Excellent grass greens year round. Greenside bunkers 1st, 2nd and 3rd holes. It has practice nets, fairway, putting green. Mens competition Thursday an ...

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Burnie Pioneer Village Museum - Burnie  

Burnie Pioneer Village Museum reflects Burnie's historic streetscape in the 1890's. Visit Burnie's famous indoor street and experience the sights and sounds of 100 years ago. The Pioneer Village was the first indoor historical street to be recreated ...

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Burnie Regional Art Gallery - Burnie  

Burnie Regional Art Gallery features three modern galleries with regularly changing exhibitions. The three modern galleries in the complex accommodate more than 20 different exhibitions a year - from the gallerys own permanent collection and exhibiti ...

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Creative Paper Tasmania - Burnie  

Creative Paper Tasmania is situated in the heart of the traditional papermaking town of Burnie. Our papermakers produce some of the world’s most extraordinary papers here entirely by hand, using natural fibres and Tasmanian plants. At Creative Pa ...

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Dismal Swamp - Smithton  

Dismal Swamp is an eco-tourism and forestry interpretation centre near Togari, north west Tasmania. Dismal Swamp is 30 minutes south west of Smithton (40 kilometres/25 miles). Dismal Swamp is a natural blackwood forest sinkhole, believed to be the on ...

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Dove Lake Circuit - Cradle Valley  

This six-kilometre track is one of Tasmania's premier walks. Most of it is boardwalk that is low-key but the surrounds are not, and include the towering crags of Cradle Mountain, unexpected beaches on the side of the lake, the ancient Ballroom Forest ...

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Emu Valley Rhododendron Gardens - Burnie  

The Emu Valley Rhododendron Garden is a stunning garden near Burnie, north west Tasmania. The Gardens are a five-minute drive south of Burnie (eight kilometres/four miles). This 13-hectare/32-acre garden features over 22,000 select rhododendrons and ...

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Guide Falls Alpaca Park - West Ridgley  

The Guide Falls Alpaca Park is located at West Ridgley, northwest Tasmania. West Ridgely is a twenty-minute drive south of Burnie (14 kilometres), a short distance from the B18 highway. The Park features alpaca and other alternative farm animals in ...

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Hellyers Road Distillery - Burnie  

Hellyers Road Distillery, in Burnie, north west Tasmania, is Australia’s largest single malt whisky distillery. Burnie is Tasmania’s fourth-largest city, a two-hour drive west of Launceston (148 kilometres/91 miles). Hellyers Road Distillery pro ...

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Highfield Historic Site - Stanley  

Highfield Historic Site offers a historically accurate vision of a gentleman's home and farm of the 1830s. It sits on a hillside overlooking the lands the manager would have once controlled, with views across to Stanley, the Nut and Bass Strait beyo ...

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Joe Lyons Cottage - Stanley  

Joseph Aloysius Lyons was born in this tiny cottage in Stanley in 1879. He was a teacher before joining the Workers' Political League and this led him into politics. By 1914 he was deputy leader of the Labor Party. In 1923 he was elected State Prem ...

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Killynaught Spa Cottages Restaurant - Boat Harbour  

Killynaught Spa Cottages Restaurant is located at Boat Harbour on Tasmania’s north west coast. Boat Harbour is 30 minutes west of Burnie (31 kilometres/19 miles) and two-and-a-half hours north west of Launceston (192 kilometres/119 miles). At Kill ...

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Lactos Cheese Factory (Tasting) - Burnie  

Lactos is one of Australia’s leading speciality cheesemakers located at Burnie on the north-west coast. At the Lactos Cheese Tasting and Sales Centre you can sample Lactos’s fine cheeses, including major brands Tasmanian Heritage, Mersey Valley ...

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Lake Barrington Estate Vineyard - West Kentish  

The Lake Barrington Vineyard is located beside Lake Barrington at West Kentish, northwest Tasmania. West Kentish is a half-hour drive south of Devonport (30 kilometres) and 10 minutes from Sheffield (13 kilometres). Established in 1984 by the late Dr ...

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Mt Vista Golf Club - Waratah  

Mt Vista Golf Club is a nine hole golf course at Waratah on Tasmania’s west coast. Just 35 minutes drive from Burnie this pretty course overlooks the town of Waratah towards Mt.Bischoff. The 570 metre par-5 5th hole is one of the longest in the Sta ...

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Natone Hills Fly Fishery - Natone  

Natone Hills Fishery offers fly fishing in the hills of Upper Natone, 20 kilometres (12 miles) inland from Burnie, in northwest Tasmania. This area is lush and green and the Natone Hills Fishery has its own private waters stocked with brown and rainb ...

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Nut - Stanley  

The historic village of Stanley, in far north-west Tasmania, is nestled at the base of The Nut, a sheer-sided bluff - all that remains of an ancient volcanic plug. A walking track climbs to the summit of The Nut, or you can take the chairlift, with ...

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Nut Chairlift - Stanley  

The Nut, rising 152 metres from the sea, dominates the headland that the fishing village of Stanley shelters behind. No exertion is necessary when the chairlift takes you to the top for a seagulls view of the historic town and the east and west along ...

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Oldina Picnic Area - Wynyard  

The Olinda Picnic Area is located close to Wynyard on Tasmania’s north west coast. This pleasant spot is a 10-minute drive south west of Wynyard (10 kilometres/six miles) on the C235 road. Set among exotic pine forests, the Olinda Picnic Area is a ...

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Pieman River - Corinna  

The tiny settlement at Corinna on the lower Pieman is the base for river cruises and the crossing point of a vehicle punt giving access to the Western Explorer route between Arthur River in the far north-west and the west coast. Reach Corinna on grav ...

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Rocky Cape National Park - Rocky Cape  

A craggy promontory nudging out into Bass Strait, Rocky Capes tracks, cliffs and beaches attract walkers and rock climbers. The areas coastal heathlands bloom with wildflowers in summer and theres good fishing and diving around the shores. Native wil ...

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Seabrook Golf Club - Wynyard  

Seabrook Golf Club, the original nine holes being a typical links, with interesting water hazards will test you. The later contrasting nine holes has treed fairways and sand bunkers. Guaranteed an enjoyable and fascinating round of golf. Clubs, bugg ...

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Smithton Country Club - Smithton  

The Smithton Country Club is a nine-hole golf course on Tasmania’s far north west coast. Smithton is an hour’s drive west of Burnie (86 kilometres/53 miles) and 90 minutes west of Devonport (135 kilometres/84 miles). A challenging nine holes awai ...

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South Arthur Forest - Roger River  

The South Arthur Forest is a group of forest reserves in north west Tasmania. Located south of Smithton, the South Arthur Forests includes the Milkshake Hills, Lake Chisolm and Julius River Forest Reserves. You can take the South Arthur Forest Driveâ ...

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Stanley Artworks Studio Gallery - Stanley  

Stanley Artworks is a contemporary commercial art gallery in Tasmania’s north west. The Gallery is in central Stanley - a classified historic town and the last major township on the north west coast. Established in 1995 by wood designer/makers, To ...

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Stanley Discovery Museum and Geneology Centre - Stanley  

The Discovery Centre contains a wealth of information relating to the history of the Stanley district and many items of interest collected in the area. Some of the items on display include: Antique bric-a-brac, Photographic display, numerous house ...

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Stanley Golf Club - Stanley  

The Stanley Golf Club is a nine-hole coastal course at Stanley, north west Tasmania. Stanley is a classified historic town, 20 minutes’ north east of Smithton (22 kilometres/14 miles) and 90 minutes’ west of Devonport (127 kilometres/79 miles). A ...

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Stanley Seaquarium - Stanley  

Situated on Fisherman's Dock at the foot of the Nut, Stanley Seaquarium provides an ideal outing for the whole family. A wide variety of Tasmanian sea life are viewed at close range from above and below water level, so close that you can almost touch ...

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Touchwood Craft Gallery and Coffee Shop - Stanley  

The Touchwood Craft Gallery is located at Stanley, north-west Tasmania. Stanley is an hour's drive north-west of Burnie (78 kilometres/49 miles) and 90 minutes from Devonport (127 kilometres/79 miles). The Touchwood Craft Gallery specialises in fine ...

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Two Oaks Nursery, Gallery and Cafe - Burnie  

The Two Oaks Nursery, Gallery and Café is located at Somerset on Tasmania’s northwest coast. Somerset is a ten-minute drive west of Burnie (6 kilometres). The Two Oaks Gallery features a range of work by local artisans. Fine woodcraft, made from T ...

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Waratah Museum - Waratah  

The Waratah Museum, at Waratah in Tasmania’s northwest, tells the west coast mining story. Waratah is a three-hour drive west of Launceston (232 kilometres) and about 45 minutes south of Burnie (58 kilometres). The Museum is located in Waratah’s ...

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Water Wheel Creek Timber Heritage Experience - Mawbanna  

Water Wheel Creek Timber Heritage Experience is located at Mawbanna, north west Tasmania. Mawbanna is a small rural settlement, 25 minutes south east of Stanley (27 kilometres/17 miles), en route to Dip Falls. Water Wheel Creek Timber Heritage Exper ...

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Wonders of Wynyard - Wynyard  

Visit Australia's largest collection of locally restored veteran Ford vehicles at Tasmania's Wonders of Wynyard. The collection, including the equal oldest Ford in the world, is housed in a purpose built "shed" attached to the new Wynyard Visitor Cen ...

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Wynyard Golf Club - Wynyard  

The Wynyard Golf Club is a great little nine hole course in northwest Tasmania. It is situated in a delightfully attractive setting on the western banks of the Inglis River and directly underneath Fossil Bluff at Wynyard on the sands of Bass Strait. ...

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Wytchbrooke - Lapoinya  

Wytchbrooke Gardens is a large scale woodland garden located in Lapoinya on Tasmania’s northwest coast. Set on over five acres, it was established in the early 1970’s with many varieties of rhododendrons which were collected in the Himalayan and ...

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editors picks

Explore Robe, South Australia

gfitter | 2008-08-21 | Whilst enduring my hectic pace of life in Melbourne, Australia, there is always a place of relaxation in my mind when I recall my times spent exploring the Limestone Coast, South Australia. | read more

Explore Hobart Tasmania with Max Walker

maxwalker | 2008-10-30 | Despite a life rich in experience, I am still, will always be … a slow talking Tasmanian, with the legacy of 5 broken noses from playing football. | read more

Is Melbourne the latte capital of Australia?

miekecasanova | 2008-09-23 | I have to accept that to start my day with a kick, I need that expresso coffee that Melbourne is famous for. | read more

The Mornington Peninsula (Vic)

mwheeler | 2008-08-13 | Mornington Peninsula (Vic) a kaleidoscope of activities only 60 minutes from Melbourne | read more

Cradle Mountain

naturalwanders | 2008-09-08 | One can fly into Launceston or Devonport, hire a car, and drive to the Cradle Mountain end of Cradle Mountain-Lake St.Clair National Park. | read more

Shark Bay World Heritage Region, Western Australia

naturalwanders | 2008-09-17 | Just past the Overlander Roadhouse is the turn-off for Shark Bay. Shark Bay is a World Heritage area, and the first place to stop is at Hamelin Pool to see the Stromatolites. | read more

Keswick Island, Whitsunday's

keswickisland | 2008-12-04 | Information & history about Keswick & neighbouring Islands in the Cumberland Group. | read more

Shelter from the rain

DaanSpijer | 2008-09-22 | An impending storm, an invitation to shelter in a guest-house and the unexpected consequences. | read more

Eumundi Market

Emma | 2008-09-05 | Eumundi Markets are in Southern Queensland (Sunshine Coast) and are a short drive from the popular tourist destinations; Noosa, and Maroochydore. | read more

Whale Watching in Hervey Bay near Fraser Island, Queensland

Kristy79 | 2008-09-02 | Whale Watching in the pristine waters of Hervey Bay with the magnificent backdrop of Fraser Island. | read more

 

 

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