Hobart, and the island beyond.
The road up kunanyi, a day south to Bruny, the sea cliffs of the Tasman Peninsula and the cellar doors of the Coal River Valley. What each one is like, what it costs, and where to book.
The tours that carry a first trip.
First visit or fifth, these do the heavy lifting: a full day on Bruny Island, the summit road up kunanyi, a cruise in under the Tasman cliffs, a table of oysters shucked at the jetty.
Full-Day Guided Bruny Island Tour from Hobart
Full-day Bruny Island tour from Hobart with ferry tickets, hotel pickup, rainforest walking, iconic lookout views, and honey and chocolate stops.
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The coast worth the early start.
Two and a half hours up the Tasman Highway, the pink granite of Freycinet drops into water the colour of a swimming pool. Walk the saddle to the Wineglass Bay lookout, or take the boat in under the Hazards. Leave Hobart at dawn and the beach is yours.
Which day out of Hobart is yours?
Everyone leaves the city for at least one day. The right direction depends on your trip. Three honest ways to spend it, each already reviewed and priced.
Food and coast
The island day
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Cheese and oysters at the source, a whisky stop, fur seals off the Neck and the lighthouse at the end of the road. Bruny is the day people book a whole Hobart trip around, and the little ferry from Kettering is part of the fun.
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History and cliffs
The peninsula day
3 hours · from $127 · 704 reviews
An hour east, the Port Arthur Historic Site sits quiet on its green harbour: convict-era ruins, the Separate Prison, the Memorial Garden. Around it the Tasman Peninsula holds the tallest sea cliffs in the country, best seen from a boat.
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Forest and falls
The mountain day
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Russell Falls under the tree ferns, some of the tallest trees on earth, and snow gums near the top when the season is right. Add kunanyi on the way back for the whole city and the Derwent laid out below.
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The bush wakes up at night.
The Tasmanian devil is a night animal, and so are the quolls, the wombats and the possums. Bonorong runs after-dark feeds and early walks where you meet them properly, close and calm, with keepers who know every one of them by name.
The island eats well.
Bruny oysters shucked on the jetty, Coal River Valley cheese, ocean trout and berries in summer. If you book three food hours near Hobart, make them these.
Cellar doors and copper stills.
Cool-climate pinot and sparkling in the Coal River Valley, single malt whisky that now wins the awards Scotland used to keep, gin distilled on the waterfront. Richmond and the valley are twenty minutes out.
The peninsula keeps its history.
The Port Arthur Historic Site holds more than thirty convict-era buildings on a quiet green harbour, the Separate Prison among them, and a Memorial Garden that asks only for quiet. A good guide joins up the ruins, the boat past the Isle of the Dead, and the sea cliffs beyond.
Pick your corner of Tasmania.
The island works in pockets, and each is a day. Hobart for Salamanca and the harbour. kunanyi for the view down. Richmond for the oldest bridge in the country. Bruny for a long lunch.
Browse by the kind of day.
Twelve ways into the same island. Pick the one that sounds like your kind of day, and every option behind it is already reviewed and priced.
Out of the city by morning.
The best of Tasmania is a drive from the waterfront. Sea cliffs, white-sand bays, tree-fern gullies and an island you reach only by ferry, all back in time for dinner in town.
Three days from the waterfront.
You cannot see all of Tasmania in one trip. You can do the right three days out of Hobart. This is the order to hand a friend landing tomorrow.
Day 1
The waterfront and the mountain
Salamanca and Battery Point on foot, the Saturday market if the timing lands, then the road up kunanyi for the whole city and the Derwent laid out below.
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Day 2
South to Bruny Island
The ferry from Kettering, cheese and oysters and whisky along the way, the lighthouse at the far end and fur seals off the Neck. A slow, full day.
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Day 3
East to the peninsula
The Port Arthur Historic Site given the time it deserves, the Tessellated Pavement on the way, and the Tasman sea cliffs from the deck of a boat.
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