Afar
7 Ways to Experience Tasmania by Water
It’s easy to plan a Tasmania trip around the places you can reach by land. But some of the best experiences, from private islands to wildlife cruises, start where the road ends.
Afar
Why Tasmania Is Australia’s Best Dark Sky Destination
The island’s darkest hours are when some of its best experiences begin, from chasing auroras to meeting Tasmania’s nocturnal residents.
Atlas Obscura
The Dog Line in Eaglehawk Neck, Australia
Savage dogs chained up in a line guarded against prisoners escaping from Port Arthur in the 1800s. The dog line, which ran across the 100-meter-wide "Neck" at Eaglehawk, was devised by John Peyton Jones. Any movement or the slightest noise would set the dogs barking and alert the sentries to ensure that no convicts escaped across the narrow stretch of land that led from the Port Arthur convict…
The Guardian
Mushroom trip: a mycologist’s tour of the Tarkine
On a three-day fungi workshop in Australia’s largest cool temperate rainforest, Alexis Buxton-Collins unearths an unexpected appreciation for the third kingdom of life Revered as one of Australia’s last true wilderness areas, Takayna/Tarkine is a place of legends. Freshwater crayfish that can reach almost a metre in length lurk in the shade of 2,000-year-old Huon pines, and every few years a ru…
nytimes.com
The New York Times
Seeking the Elusive Southern Lights in Tasmania
A writer returns to his native Australian island, where seeing the aurora takes more work than in the north, home of mass-market lights tourism. But the awe is the same.
Atlas Obscura
Tunnel at Tunnel in Tunnel, Australia
Hidden away in the rolling hills of Northern Tasmania lies the enigmatic Tunnel, a tiny, now-quiet hamlet named after its most prominent feature—an abandoned train tunnel. Constructed in the early 20th century as part of the railway connecting Launceston and Scottsdale, this tunnel was once a vital artery for transporting timber and other goods. Today, it stands as a fascinating relic of Tasman…