Brooke Street Pier is a unique, four-story floating building and ferry terminal located at…read moreSullivans Cove on Hobart's waterfront. Completed in 2015 for approximately A$13 million, it was Australia's largest floating structure at the time. It serves as a major "tourism transport hub," most notably as the departure point for ferries to Mona (Museum of Old and New Art). Gayle and I wandered through during a morning walk along the Hobart waterfront. I came out with a nice Huon Pine Magnet from the good folks at Tiger Ina Papera Unique Woodcraft, who also has a gallery in the Salamanca Art Centre.

Pier has restaurants & pubs in the evening. During the day local artists, winemakers & distillers…read morehave tables with their wares. But tonight we saw people looking like pirates preping an old ship. From what we read this historic ship is traveling around Australia & will be back next year. Colorful!

When I planned to do this adventure cruise with my wife I was in dilemma about which touring…read morecompany to choose but a simple call to Kevin from this company sorted it all for us. I chose the full day tour from Hobart including Tasman island adventure cruise and Port Arthur historic site. You are picked up in a small tour bus from Hobart and taken to their booking office in Eaglehawk Neck, Arthur Hwy. Here you have to make your payment for the cruise, they have a deal running at the moment where buying of 1 full trip ticket will get you the second ticket at 50%. You can have your breakfast here (I suggest otherwise if you have the tendency to throw up on boats). You are provided with wet suits which is a life saviour if the sea get rough and some ginger root tablets to help your stomach adjust to the waves. You are joined with the rest of the group who decided to drive their own from Hobart and taken on a bigger bus to the jetty. Here you meet skipper Craig who is just great behind the wheel. You make your way to as the website suggests "NEWEST and ULTIMATE 4WD of the SEA". This baby can surprise you at times with the power of its Yamaha engines. The 3hr cruise is the best experience if you are not a frequent one on the sea. I had an amazing time of my life on that cruise and we even spotted a humpback whale. If not anything you will surely see some seals who are seen often on the coastline. The amazing features made from dolerite and sea stacks such as candlestick, the totem pole and cathedral rock is a treat to the eyes and added to that the journey into carved caves will stay in memories fora long time. After the cruise you are back to the blue seal cafe where your pre-booked lunch is served. Kevin had taken special care to get our meal specially prepared by his chef as we are vegetarians and had indicated this to him during the time of booking. After that we'll deserved lunch you are dropped off at the Port Arthur historic site where you can look around and enjoy the scenic beauty and history associated with this site. There is an entry fee to this site which your covered in your booking. You are the collected from there for a trip back to your accommodation. All in all this is a great package, Kevin, Roshan and the rest of the staff are just a great bunch of guys and this trip will be in the list of my most memorable adventure trips ever....

We passed beautiful wineries & sheep cheese farms on route to Richmond. This charming old historic…read moretown was filled with restaurants, coffee shop & charming handmade gift shops. We enjoyed wandering around on a beautiful Sunday afternoon. You have to love a town that has free clean restrooms, lots of free parking and even free Wi-Fi. Perfect!

This dock is basically for the two Mures fish restaurant and some fishing boats. Not much else to…read moresay about it, as it is otherwise uninteresting. I dined at the upstairs Mures restaurant, which was excellent.

It's the best corner shop. they stock a large range of products and have a fantastic range of…read morequality bread.

Welcome to your local corner store slash newsagency slash post office! West Hobart Express is a…read morelittle from each column, and means it acts well as an all-in-one for a weekend run. It's a little pricier than a normal grocery run but perfect for ducking into for some milk or bread, and there are often some fairly excellent specials bins that feel a bit like a lucky dip. The staff are super lovely and the store is open until 8pm seven days a week, including the post office bit. Remarkable.

An excellent museum without hours of obligatory sore feet. I got to pet a penguin wing and hide…read more(say "corpse"). The cafeteria downstairs rates about TWO stars.

My wife and I had an awesome tour of the Cape Bruny lighthouse today. Our tour guide was friendly…read moreand genuinely passionate about teaching us about the history behind the lighthouse. Well worth the $15 each for the tour. They also offer some great bus trips and sunset tours of the lighthouse. Thanks so much!

By far the best cooking school in Australia. A true paddock to plate experience. I have attended…read moreseveral times and I'm never disappointed. Highly recommended.

This was quite an interesting and somewhat exhausting experience visiting chef Rodney Dunn at his…read morecooking school out in the countryside. We were there for eight hours! Chef had planned a very complex menu. The essence of the plan was to harvest all the ingredients or as much as possible from his garden on the grounds. We had a prolonged tour of the grounds and then the nine students spent several hours picking herbs from the garden and preparing them according to chef's recipes. He was there the entire time to supervise us and surprisingly it worked out quite nicely. He personally performed some of the more difficult cooking tasks (such as the retolo), all the while instructing us on the fine points of what he was doing. After more than five hours of preparation work, we eventually sat down to eat lunch at approximately 2:30 PM. Lunch was wonderful and included both a sparkling white wine and later a nice Pinot Noir to accompany the lamb shoulder that we had prepared. If you have interest in the slow food movement, it seems to me this is the ultimate representation of it. We left the grounds with an autographed copy of his cookbook, having purchased it at an additional cost.