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12 Lighthouses not to be missed!

Tasmania’s lighthouse heritage goes back to the early days of settlement in Tasmania. There is an abundance of lighthouses around the state, some offer the opportunity to go inside and others are great to marvel at from the ground, sea…

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Winter Shines on the Great Eastern Drive

As the days slowly get shorter and the summer months draw to their inevitable close, it seems that Tasmania’s East Coast exhales gently, in contentment. A Tasmanian Winter is a splendid thing. As the days slowly get shorter and the…

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2020 East Coast Tasmania Tourism Awards

2020 East Coast Tasmania – Tourism Awards

Every year we celebrate the excellence and professionalism in our visitor industry. It is our pleasure to announce and congratulate all the winners and finalists in the 2020 East Coast Tasmania Tourism Awards! And the winners are…   Category 1:…

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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

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…

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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…

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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…

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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…

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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…

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