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Distance from Walton House |
| Bruny Island Cruises |
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Bruny Island Cruises offers award-winning cruises along Bruny Island?s rugged coast in southern Tasmania.
Experience one of Australia's great environmental adventures, a thrilling three-hour tour where you will spot sea-life and coastal wildlife.
Bruny Island Cruises website. |
35 minutes |
| Tahune Airwalk |
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You can experience walking among the treetops past rare species, some found only in Tasmania, such as King Billy and Celery Top pine, myrtle, beech, blackwood and sassafras.
The walkway rises up to 48 metres above the ground and extends for around half a kilometre over the Tahune State Forest and Picton River.
Tahune Airwalk website. |
35 minutes |
| Huon Jet Boat |
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Huon River Jet Boats offers an exhilarating ride along 12 kilometres of the Huon River. This 35-minute experience combines beautiful scenery with the thrill of white water. You?ll speed through rapids and feel the excitement of 360 degree spins and breathtaking turns. You?ll also experience the contrast of drifting along the tranquil waters of the river, seeing perfect reflections of riverside forests.
Huon Jet Boat website. |
1 minute |
| Hastings Caves and Thermal Springs |
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Formed some 40 million years ago, these great dolomite caves were discovered in 1917 by timber workers.
You can join a Parks and Wildlife guide on a 45-minute daily tour through the large cavern. You?ll discover spectacular subterranean formations including flowstone, stalactites, columns, shawls, straws, stalagmites and the unusual helictites. The Cave is spacious and well-lit and there are no narrow passages.
Hastings Caves website. |
50 minutes |
| Wooden Boat Centre |
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Sitting on the banks of the Huon River, the Wooden Boat Centre comprises the Wooden Boat Discovery Centre and Wooden Boat School. In the Discovery Centre you can see displays interpreting the history of wooden boat building and water transport along with maritime tools and artefacts.
Wooden Boat Centre website. |
5 minutes |
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Apple and Heritage Museum
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Enjoy three attractions for the price of one: the museum, Apple Blossom's Gifts and the Starving Artist gallery. Take a tour that provides insights into the lives of the Huon Valley's early settlers.
2064 Main Road,
Grove, Tasmania 7109
Phone:(03) 6266 4345
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10 minutes |
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Southern Design Centre
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Tasmanian timber furniture crafted on site. resient artisans demonstrate skills in various mediums. Arts, crafts, clothing, exquisite giftware and furniture showrooms. Enjoy a coffee or meal in the bright, warm atmoshpere of the cafe. Free entry. Open daily.
11 School Road
Geeveston TAS 7116
Phone:(03) 6297 0039
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20 minutes |
| Ida Bay Railway |
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Scenic return trip of 14km and 2 hours duration on a heritage-listed bush railway that meanders throught bushland and along the waters edge to a safe and secluded beach. Walking tracks to Southport lagoona dn Southport Bluff. Picnic and BBQ facilities at beach and station. Cafe open every day.
Phone: (03) 6298 3100
| 60 minutes |
| The Shot Tower |
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Built in 1870 for the production of shot, this sandstone tower rises 48 metres above the banks of the Derwent, affording spectacular views over the river.
The tower is 10 metres in diameter at the base and 3.9 metres at the top. Molten lead was dropped from top to bottom of the hollow tower and its rapid descent and cooling roughly shaped it into pellets.
There is a museum at the base of the tower and a tea rooms alongside. There are 259 steps to the top, but 25 landings on which to catch your breath.
| 20 minutes |
