Tasmania

Hobart & Port Arthur

The best of Hobart is Hobart Town - the heritage parts of Battery Point, Salamanca, Constitution Dock and the CBD.

If there were such things as ghosts, wraiths or phantoms then surely Port Arthur would have its fair share.

Scenery

Take your pick in Tassie. Mountains, forests, empty beaches, coves, rocky headlands, open farmland and picturesque country towns.

West Coast

The wild west. There's nothing but open ocean between here and Argentina.

When I was a kid Tasmania was famous for 1 thing - apples. Well, also convicts. Tassie and New South Wales are the 2 states with a significant convict heritage; and Tassie's is without a doubt the more palpable with the ghostly Port Arthur prison ruins and the bleak west coast Macquarie Harbour, setting for what must've been one of the most isolated penal establishments ever, and motivation for Sarah Island's most infamous escapee, Alexander Pearce who managed to get away twice. On both occasions he cannibalized his fellow fugitives. Tasmania's isolation, an island off an island on the opposite side of the planet, was a perfect place to ship miscreants. That isolation means Tassie is now often overlooked and is in a bit of a time warp - but mostly in a good way and with some positive modern touches. Not a remnant of the past but a vision for the future in my opinion.