East Coast Shines, all year round.
Although we haven’t seen you in while, we can’t wait for you to be back. With so many reasons to stop, to make life-long memories, and friends. Shine with us on the East Coast. We can’t wait to see…
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2020 Great Eastern Wine Weekend
Welcome to the 2020 Great Eastern Wine Weekend East Coast Tasmania, 4-6 September 2020 Join us for a celebration of the region’s finest wine and fare. Stretching along a coastline envied for its cool climate drops, the weekend features exciting…
Meet the makers at the Bicheno Food & Wine Festival
One of the many things visitors love about Tasmania’s East Coast is it’s world-class food and wine. The East Coast has long attracted passionate growers, winemakers, beer makers, cider makers, cheesemakers and chefs, whose creations are just waiting for you…
Maria Island. Best Day Trip Ever
Meet the Taylor family – Emma, Rob and their three boys, Finn, Ashton and Ky. The Taylors are a pretty typical Tasmanian family – they’re active and outdoorsy, and they love living at Triabunna, just across the Mercury Passage from…
Leave ordinary life behind on Maria Island
Maria Island National Park is a special place, where breathtaking, wild beauty and close encounters with wildlife are everyday events. It’s a place of layered history, where wild ideas and visionary schemes have been sparked, and extinguished. And it’s a…
Moments to remember forever
As I walked along my local beach, I saw a young father playing with his two small children. They were making the most spectacular sandcastle—an enormous, elaborate concoction, complete with moat, dribbled sand battlements, driftwood defences and seashell-crusted turrets. The…
Why everyone’s raving about Tasmania’s Great Eastern Drive
There’s something about the Great Eastern Drive on Tasmania’s East Coast that gets inside your soul and changes you for the better. Taking some time to explore this incredibly scenic part of the world is much more than just another…
Savouring East Coast Tasmania’s Wine Trail
Tasmania’s East Coast is known and loved for many things; world-famous beaches, beautiful landscapes, accessible national parks, and a relaxed, holiday pace. It’s a part of Tasmania that invites exploration—the perfect place to take a deep breath and unwind. But…
Travelling Deeper on Tasmania’s East Coast
International travel documentary maker Gareth Leonard – aka Tourist 2 Townie, spent 10 days having the experience of his life in Tasmania. In this first episode he explores Tassie’s east coast, the incredible coastline, the ‘wild’ wildlife, ocean fresh cuisine…
Discovering beach nooks on the Great Eastern Drive
Have you ever stumbled upon something that was so unexpected and lovely that it stopped you in your tracks? A place that was at once so simple and so extraordinary, that it left an indelible imprint on your memory?
Where to find the most romantic beaches of the Great Eastern Drive
Beaches that will make you just stop Is there any better way to celebrate a special anniversary with your beloved than a romantic, surprise holiday in one of the world’s most beautiful coastal locations? No, we can’t think of one…
Your best Bay of Fires holiday, by land or sea
The Bay of Fires—a slice of coastal heaven Last week, we introduced you to adventuring couple Elise and Dom, whose road trip on the Great Eastern Drive in their vintage Kombi captured our imagination. If you haven’t already read this chapter…