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Highfield Historic Site  

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  

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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Nut  

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  

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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Stanley Artworks Studio Gallery  

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  

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  

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 Seaquarium provides a fascinating sea-life experience at the foot of Stanley’s Nut, north west Tasmania. At this colourful and vibrant aquarium, the emphasis is on fun and facts as you come up-close with resident sea creatures. Learn how Ta ...

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Touchwood Craft Gallery and Coffee Shop  

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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Far Western Queensland Outback Trip

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Australia: Love at first sight - Kalbarri

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A few of my favorite (Melbourne) things – the ‘green’ bits

Catani Gardens alkira | 2009-01-18 | A few of my favorite (Melbourne) things – the ‘green’ bits | read more

Cow Bay Beach

Cow Bay Beach, where rainforest meets the Great Barrier Reef cowbayhomestay | 2009-02-04 | Cow Bay Beach, north of the Daintree River in Far North Queensland is on the Daintree Coast. Here two World Heritage areas come together in a spectacular fashion: Daintree Rainforest meets The Great Barrier Reef. | read more

Finding Utopia in Hervey Bay

Michel and Me herveybay | 2009-01-23 | Retirement and travelling around Australia the two goals of many an Australian. So that’s what we did in 2006... | read more

Keswick Island, Whitsunday's

Keswick Island's Basil Bay Beach keswickisland | 2009-01-18 | Information & history about Keswick & neighbouring Islands in the Cumberland Group. | read more

Australia: Love at first sight - Perth

Perth esmeralda | 2009-04-03 | 1995 Esme & Nick's Australian Travel Diary (April to August) | read more

Thornton’s Beach at Cape Tribulation

The beach and us marief | 2009-01-19 | A beautiful isolated beach in Tropical North Queensland with historical reference to Captain Cook's discovery of the Eastern Coast of Australia | read more

Australia: Love at first sight - Exmouth

Shell Beach esmeralda | 2009-04-03 | 1995 Esme & Nick's Australian Travel Diary (August) | read more

Surfing at Shipsterns Bluff, Marion Bay, SE Tasmania

Shipsterns is close to the popular town and beach of Marion Bay Beachbreaks | 2009-02-15 | Shipsterns Bluff , 'The Stern' or "shippies" has put South East Tasmania firmly on the world surfing map. The wave is considered as one of the worlds heaviest, and with good reason. | read more

 

 

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