We’ve done the drive from Hobart to Cradle Mountain and back plenty of times. Summer, winter, clear skies, foggy mornings—name the conditions, we’ve driven them. Sometimes we take it slow, making a road trip of it with cheese stops and whisky tastings. Or you can do...
In December–January, the cheapest car rental at Hobart Airport most often comes from off-airport value brands like Bargain Car Rentals and East Coast Car Rentals found via Rentalcars.com. Expect base daily rates roughly from about $70–100 for small cars in peak...
The direct drive from Hobart to Launceston takes two and a half hours. Nobody should do it in two and a half hours. The east coast route — what Tourism Tasmania calls the Great Eastern Drive — takes you the long way around. Past convict ruins, past beaches the colour...
Winter in Tasmania is an un-obvious choice. Sure. But that’s why you’re reading this, right? You’re tempted by something different. Unique. Surprising. An experience to shake off those heavy, mid-year blues. Uncoil into lightness again. Well...
Every year, sometime in late April, Tasmanians start watching the weather forecast with an urgency that has nothing to do with the weekend. The question isn’t whether it’ll rain. The question is: has the fagus turned yet? The turning of the fagus is one of those... 