Best bottle shop around, with Roger and Steve how can you go wrong. Great range of beverages to try…read moreand great prices. Friendly bar and dining area with Adam and Dave and Russell our head chef. Tote and Gaming provided Eight Ball table as well and a fantastic Sports Bar if you like racing

My wife and I had an awesome tour of the Cape Bruny lighthouse today. Our tour guide was friendly…read moreand genuinely passionate about teaching us about the history behind the lighthouse. Well worth the $15 each for the tour. They also offer some great bus trips and sunset tours of the lighthouse. Thanks so much!

Average hike up but views are stunning. There are loud birds that are freaky. You can take public…read moretransit which is nice. Value 5/5 Atmosphere 4/5 Service 3/5 Quality 3/5 15/20

Everyone poses next to the Antarctica Monuments on the waterfront in Hobart. It is titled "Self…read moreportrait, Louis and Joe". The sculpture is a portrait of Louis Bernacchi, holding a flag, and his Husky dog, Joe, standing in front of an old box camera which is on a tripod. There are another series of sculptures which comprise this monument including suit cases, skis, ropes, pick axes and other equipment as well as more dogs, seals and penguins on rocks (which appear to be part of a sculpture entitled "Going South") as well as numerous birds. Bernacchi was a scientist, photographer & writer who went on expeditions to Antarctica. The first was with the Borchgrevink Antarctic Expedition from 1898-1900 on the ship "Southern Cross" which left Hobart from where this monument stands. The second was with Scott's British National Expedition in 1901-1904.

Brooke Street Pier is a unique, four-story floating building and ferry terminal located at…read moreSullivans Cove on Hobart's waterfront. Completed in 2015 for approximately A$13 million, it was Australia's largest floating structure at the time. It serves as a major "tourism transport hub," most notably as the departure point for ferries to Mona (Museum of Old and New Art). Gayle and I wandered through during a morning walk along the Hobart waterfront. I came out with a nice Huon Pine Magnet from the good folks at Tiger Ina Papera Unique Woodcraft, who also has a gallery in the Salamanca Art Centre.

Pier has restaurants & pubs in the evening. During the day local artists, winemakers & distillers…read morehave tables with their wares. But tonight we saw people looking like pirates preping an old ship. From what we read this historic ship is traveling around Australia & will be back next year. Colorful!

We passed beautiful wineries & sheep cheese farms on route to Richmond. This charming old historic…read moretown was filled with restaurants, coffee shop & charming handmade gift shops. We enjoyed wandering around on a beautiful Sunday afternoon. You have to love a town that has free clean restrooms, lots of free parking and even free Wi-Fi. Perfect!

This site was our first introduction to the time when convicts were "exported" from the UK as part…read moreof the punishment for their crimes. Cascades Female Factory was sold off and mostly dismantled after it closed down. The government had to purchase back most of the property and return it to the original state to open the site for historical visits. We took bus 446 (free pending the outcome of the US-Iran war) from near our hotel and it got us there in around 15 minutes. There were two guided tour options offered (1) Notorious Strumpets and Dangerous Girls which was focused on specific women's stories and (2) Convict Women's Tour which provided an overview of life, hardships, conditions and more inside. Each focused on different parts of the factory so it was best to arrive at least 30 minutes early or stay after the tour to see the part of the factory not covered in the guided tour. Good signage were posted throughout the site along with many individual profiles of the women convicts. There wasn't much to see (mostly walls, building outlines and one original home) but the tour guides brought the history and the stories of some of the female convicts to life. Very harsh living conditions, extreme penalties, abuse and heartbreaking separation from the children were conveyed throughout the tour. Well worth a visit if you have time in Hobart. If you have the Port Arthur Historic Site Ticket of Leave (housed the male convicts) then you can visit this site for free.

This UNESCO World heritage site is the best place to connect with a lesser known stories of…read moreAustralia's female convicts. The story is told through bios and artifacts of the displacement, mistreatment and forced migration of convict women & girls, and their contribution to colonisation throughout the history of colonial Australia to the present day. On the journey women were divided into 2 groups depending on their behavior. The class system regulated clothing & jobs of the women while in the factory. The more trustworthy women were employed as cooks, task overseers & hospital attendants. Second class convicts made clothes for the establishment and prepared & mended linen. The crime class was sentenced to the washtub, laundering for the factory, the orphan school and the penitentiary; they also carded and spun wool. All of these tasks were subject to change at the discretion of the Principal Superintendent.

Our in-laws came down from Sydney, so we offered them a fun-filled trip down south. They are 'car…read moreclub' people. They like to get in cars and drive places. We decided not to disappoint them and set out on a journey down the Huon, stopping at various places along the way. One of those places was the Tahune Airwalk. I didn't really think about this in advance, as I probably would have remembered my impressive fear of heights, but instead kept up the polite chatter until we reached the airwalk itself. I took about five steps on and looked down... to see that it wasn't a solid floor. Just some nice metal grating, allowing you to see the exact ridiculous height you are at, and just how far you would fall if the walkway failed and gravity continued to operate. While my insides turned to mush, my in-laws had a delightful time - walking around without gripping onto the rails for dear life, taking photos of the endless trees, and delightfully saying "Oh! Look how high we are!". My husband provided me with much needed assistance to get through it (yes, I was determined) and I only spent five minutes curled in the fetal position once we were back on solid ground. Looking through the photos my in-laws took, it was very picturesque and lovely... if you don't mind heights.

This was my second visit to the Tahune Airwalk in four years, not much has changed but the place…read moreremains as beautiful as ever, the airwalk is always good but this time for some reason the height got to me more than last time. The airwalk itself is good fun but if you are not the best with heights there are other tracks you can still take and get an appreciation for the age and history of the area. Knowing that some of the plants that you are seeing have been growing for as long as they have makes you feel kind of small. If you have a car, can get a bus or have a tour that includes this location, make the most of it and take it in, this is a very humbling and serene place to visit.