Cataract Gorge Reserve or the Gorge is a two minute drive from central Launceston. Follow a pathway, built in the 1890s, along the cliff face, looking down onto the South Esk River. The Kings Bridge over The Gorge was floated into place in 1867. Cliff Grounds on the Northern side has a Victorian garden with ferns and exotic plants.

Cradle Mountain-Lake St Clair National Park; the most distinctive flora of the area are the pandani and the fagus the former for its palm-like appearance,the latter for its status as Australia’s only deciduous tree. The Enchanted Walk takes you from cascading rivers to dense, old-growth rainforest in just a 20 minutes stroll.

Flinders and its surrounding 51 islands once connected Tasmania to mainland Australia. Flinders Island offers you a landscape varying from the pink and grey granite cliffs of Mount Strzelecki and Mount Killiecrankie to the gentle, green farmlands. Birdlife and wildlife are prolific with more than 200 species visiting or living on the island’s shores. Flinders also offers you long white sandy beaches strewn with giant granite boulders dappled with orange lichen.

Freycinet National Park is best described as a blend of pink granite mountains, pure white beaches, coastal dunes and dry eucalypt forests, serene and beautiful. Wineglass Bay is just one of its white sandy beaches and the pure clear turquoise waters that are perfect for sea kayaking, swimming and scuba diving. Hazard Range offers climbing, abseiling and mountain walking, and the coastal heathlands have wonderful day walks.

Gordon River is the formed by the merging of the Collingwood and the Franklin rivers. Both rivers flow through deep valleys and spectacular ‘narrows’ and over rapids in deep rainforest country and offer great white water rafting. For a gentler river experience join a cruise up the Gordon River.

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