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Strahan Attractions - Tasmania

Experience local attractions in Strahan such as museums, vineyards, wineries, art galleries, parks and gardens on your Tasmania holiday. Be sure to visit attractions in neighbouring towns to appreciate all West Coast region has to offer.

Cove Gallery (Risby Cove)  

The Cove Gallery is a contemporary art gallery in Strahan on Tasmania’s west coast. Strahan is four-and-a-half hours west of Hobart (298 kilometres/185 miles) and south-west of Launceston (290 kilometres/180 miles). The Cove Gallery is part of Stra ...

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Gordon River, Franklin - Gordon Wild Rivers National Park  

The dark waters of the Gordon flow through the Tasmanian Wilderness World Heritage Area before quietly entering Macquarie Harbour. Cruise boats from Strahan explore several kilometres into the rivers wide, calm lower reaches, with their often perfect ...

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Hogarth Falls  

One of the 60 Great Short Walks series, this walk starts at the top of Peoples Park, in Strahan, and is a gentle, meandering stroll through sweet-smelling bush to a delightful waterfall. Local schoolchildren share their connections with the place on ...

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Sarah Island Historic Site  

In the remote reaches of Macquarie Harbour, Sarah Island was established, in 1821, as a penal settlement where convicts laboured under the harshest conditions in the rainforest felling Huon pines for boat building. Of all the sites to be chosen Macq ...

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Ship That Never Was  

Tasmanias longest running play The Ship That Never Was, based on a real event in 1834 when the last ship built at the convict settlement at Macquarie Harbour was about to sail for the new prison at Port Arthur but was hijacked by 10 convict shipwrig ...

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Strahan Golf Club  

The Strahan Golf Club is a nine-hole course, close to central Strahan. Strahan is Tasmania’s major west coast town, a four-and-a-half hour drive from Hobart (298 kilometres/185 miles) and Launceston (290 kilometres/180 miles). Strahan Golf Club fea ...

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Strahan Visitors Centre  

Architects, writers, woodturners, gardeners and historians contributed their talents to the acclaimed exhibition West Coast Reflections at the Strahan Visitors Centre. The story of the people of West Coast starts 35,000 years ago with the Aborigines ...

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Strahan Woodworks  

The Strahan Woodworks is a timber workshop and gallery at Strahan on Tasmania’s west coast. Strahan is a four-and-a-half hour drive from Hobart (298 kilometres) and Launceston (290 kilometres). Established in 1990 and linked to the Morrison’s Huo ...

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Teepookana Plateau  

Guided commercial tours and guided walks can be arranged at Strahan. Climb to the plateau, once logged for Huon pine and today the site of a forestry operation salvaging Huon pine stumps and limbs left by early timber cutters. The boardwalk reaches a ...

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Tidal Measurements at the Isle of the Dead Port Arthur

Isle of the Dead boldysr | 2010-02-11 | A fascinating program on ABC Radio National caught my attention. It led me to put my camera in a plastic bag, launch my kayak and paddle out to the Isle of the Dead, about one kilometre from my holiday accommodation, Burilda Waters. | read more

The return of the wombat.

The wombat Gate lgoldsmith | 2010-03-03 | Continuing the saga of living with wombats (In the previous episode our gallant wombat excluder had succeded in preventing the wombat returning to the burrow beneath the B & B ) read on for the next exciting episode. | 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

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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