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Winter Shines on the Great Eastern Drive

As the days slowly get shorter and the summer months draw to their inevitable close, it seems that Tasmania’s East Coast exhales gently, in contentment. A Tasmanian Winter is a splendid thing. As the days slowly get shorter and the…

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East Coast Shines, all year round.

 Although we haven’t seen you in while, we can’t wait for you to be back. With so many reasons to stop, to make life-long memories, and friends. Shine with us on the East Coast. We can’t wait to see…

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Maria Island. Best Day Trip Ever

Meet the Taylor family – Emma, Rob and their three boys, Finn, Ashton and Ky.  The Taylors are a pretty typical Tasmanian family – they’re active and outdoorsy, and they love living at Triabunna, just across the Mercury Passage from…

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Leave ordinary life behind on Maria Island

Maria Island National Park is a special place, where breathtaking, wild beauty and close encounters with wildlife are everyday events. It’s a place of layered history, where wild ideas and visionary schemes have been sparked, and extinguished. And it’s a…

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Moments to remember forever

As I walked along my local beach, I saw a young father playing with his two small children. They were making the most spectacular sandcastle—an enormous, elaborate concoction, complete with moat, dribbled sand battlements, driftwood defences and seashell-crusted turrets. The…

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Travelling Deeper on Tasmania’s East Coast

International travel documentary maker Gareth Leonard – aka Tourist 2 Townie, spent 10 days having the experience of his life in Tasmania. In this first episode he explores Tassie’s east coast, the incredible coastline, the ‘wild’ wildlife, ocean fresh cuisine…

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Your best Bay of Fires holiday, by land or sea

The Bay of Fires—a slice of coastal heaven Last week, we introduced you to adventuring couple Elise and Dom, whose road trip on the Great Eastern Drive in their vintage Kombi captured our imagination. If you haven’t already read this chapter…

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Wineglass Bay Cruises

If you’d like to experience an ocean-going perspective of Freycinet, step aboard the Schouten Passage II for an unforgettable four-hour exploration of the Freycinet coast and Wineglass Bay. This award-winning cruise takes you from Coles Bay to one of the world’s…

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