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hobart - things to do
Check out Salamanca Place and get a feel for Old Hobart. Stroll past the rows of beautiful 1830’s sandstone buildings now converted to shops, cafes and nightspots. Visit the Saturday open-air market and rub shoulders with the friendly locals. The market is crammed with cuddly creative crafts, ceramics, curios and collectables. Drop in to the Art Centre and view 75 different retail outlets, galleries, studios and performing arts venues. Shoot up to Battery Point and see Arthur’s Circus - quaint little colonial cottages plus a Military Museum. Stroll down to Franklin Wharf and buy scrumptious seafood at floating stalls on Constitution Dock. Admire some of the 60 National Trust heritage buildings in Macquarie and Davey Streets. Visit the Museum, Art Gallery, Maritime Museum and the Moorillla Museum of Antiquities. Tickle the tastebuds and sweet-tooths with samples at the Cadbury Factory and the Cascade Brewery. Savour some fulsome fudge at the original 1828 Cascades Female Factory. Wander through the Queen’s Domain and Botanical Gardens and climb Mts Wellington and Nelson.
Follow the Huon Trail to wilderness waterways and wild walks on the awesome Tahune Air Walk, high above the forest. Walk the Tasman Trail to Fortescue Bay, beside the highest sea cliffs in the Southern Hemisphere. Hop on the Bruny Island ferry and soak up the sun in company with salubrious seals, soaring seabirds and dancing dolphins. Hire a bike from the Pickled Frog backpackers or Island Cycle Tours and freewheel beside the Derwent. Catch a combo ‘peddle ‘n paddle’ cycle/kayak trip, from Hobart. Swim at Bellerive and Sandy Bays and shoot the surf at Clifton Beach. Dawdle along to Drifter’s Cafe at dusk and grab the Ghost Tour for tall tales and tingling terrors. Cruise on the Derwent, take a scenic flight and shop ‘till you drop in Elizabeth Street Mall. The list is endless and the fun never stops. There’s nothing dull about Hobart despite what those haughty ‘mainlanders’ say. |
Hobart, in proportion to its small size, must be Australia’s ‘Capital of Things to Do.’ Here is a sampler pack of what is on offer:-
Drive down to Port Arthur penal colony for the mind-boggling interpretative tour, the Isle of the Dead, and spine-tingling Ghost Tours in the dead of night.