Hobart and Surrounds
SALLY WISE, AUTHOR - Hobart and Surrounds
Sally loves where she lives as it captures the best of what Tasmania has to offer – natural beauty, cultural heritage and the simple pleasures of good food and company. Yet, along with Sally’s secrets there’s so much more to discover on the Tasman Peninsula.
Head to Port Arthur and delve into a convict past, stay the night and go on a ghost tour. A little further up the road you’ll reach Remarkable Cave. There are not many places on earth where you look through a cave and see ocean waves, but more than likely you’ll realise the local boys have beaten you there for an early-morning surf.
Closer to Hobart you can take a daring mountain bike descent down Mount Wellington or gain a few cooking tips from Rodney Dunn at the Agrarian Kitchen. Once you get a taste for Tasmania’s fine local produce, you’ll be tempted to venture over to Bruny Island where you’ll find Australia’s southernmost vineyard, oysters dripping with salt from the ocean and cheese so delicious you’ll wish you were a local.
But if you’re don’t feel like driving, take a luxury catamaran from Hobart’s waterfront down the D’Entrecasteaux Channel and you’ll arrive at Peppermint Bay. Here you’ll be fed Tasmania’s finest regional produce complemented with a fine Tasmanian wine and once again, you’ll wish you lived down the road.
