. Walking Distance:

• City walk taking in the various Heritage and National Trust buildings

• Riverside boardwalk from bridge in front of hotel to Ritchies Flour Mill, via Old Seaport and Home Point Cruise Centre

• Cataract Gorge, across road from Ritchies Flour Mill and a pleasant gentle walk into the First Basin where refreshments area available, also chair lift, swimming pool, suspension bridge, rock wallabies, peacocks and many extra walks

• Inveresk Yards, old rail and tram yards now transformed into the Museum, Art Gallery and Academy of the Arts Centre

• Aurora Stadium, formerly York Park, and ‘other’ home of Hawthorn and St. Kilda AFL clubs

• Design Centre, showcasing many of the artworks of Tasmanian woodturners, glass blowers, artists and artisans

• Automobile Museum with static display of veteran and vintage cars and periodic specialised display of racing cars and famous models

• Boags Brewery Tours, not to be missed tour of the working brewery

• A good selection of City Tours by converted trambus, double decker red bus etc

Driving Distance:

• All the wineries of the Tamar Valley and Pipers River area

• Waverley Woolen Mills with factory outlet shop

• Bilambil Berry Farm, Pipers area

• Cable Hang Gliding, Trevallyn Park

• River Cruises, both short and longer duration

• Grubb Shaft Gold Mine & Museum – Beaconsfield, working mine

• Hillwood strawberry, fruit wine & cheese centre, East Tamar Hwy

• Launceston Lakes & Wildlife Park, Riverside, wildlife reserve & fly fishing

• Lavender House & Fields, Rowella, next to Batman Bridge

• Seahorse World & Platypus World, Beauty Point

• Tamar Island Wetlands Centre, Riverside

• Brady’s Lookout, West Tamar Hwy, used as a vantage point to sight vessels entering the Tamar all the way down to Launceston

• Mt. Direction Semaphore Station, in the 1800’s ships movements were semaphored from Low Head to Mt. Direction to Windmill Hill in Launceston, prior to morse or phones. The historic semaphores can still be seen here and at Windmill Hill

• Low Head Lighthouse & Pilot Station, George Town, built 1863 with views across the Bass Strait and panoramic views of the Tamar estuary

• Windermere Church, Windermere, A copy of Beatrix Potters own church in Far Sawrey in the English Lake District built in the mid 1800’s with riverside location

• Supply River Flour Mill, Rosevears, a water driven mill built in 1825, now in ruins

• Various well signposted lookouts along the West Tamar Highway, giving fantastic views up and down the Tamar Valley and across to the Ben Lomond and Mt. Barrow mountain ranges

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