The Cove Gallery is a contemporary art gallery in Strahan on Tasmania's west coast. Strahan is four-and-a-half hours west of Hobart (298 kilometres/185 miles) and south-west of Launceston (290 kilometres/180 miles).
The Cove Gallery is part of Strahan's waterfront Risby Cove accommodation complex. The Gallery is housed within a converted, century-old sawmill workshop and the expos ...
Macquarie Harbour, Strahan, Tasmania 7468, Australia
The dark waters of the Gordon flow through the Tasmanian Wilderness World Heritage Area before quietly entering Macquarie Harbour. Cruise boats from Strahan explore several kilometres into the rivers wide, calm lower reaches, with their often perfect reflections of riverside rainforest. Disembark at Heritage Landing and follow a short boardwalk track to see ancient Huon pines.
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One of the 60 Great Short Walks series, this walk starts at the top of Peoples Park, in Strahan, and is a gentle, meandering stroll through sweet-smelling bush to a delightful waterfall. Local schoolchildren share their connections with the place on interpretive signs along the way. For extra enjoyment, leave the car in the town centre and take the foreshore walking track to and from the park, loc ...
Macquarie Harbour, Strahan, Tasmania 7468, Australia
In the remote reaches of Macquarie Harbour, Sarah Island was established, in 1821, as a penal settlement where convicts laboured under the harshest conditions in the rainforest felling Huon pines for boat building.
Of all the sites to be chosen Macquarie Harbour would have been the most windswept and barren but it was also the most secure. Any convict trying to escape Sarah Island had not only t ...
Strahan Visitor Centre, Strahan, Tasmania 7468, Australia
Tasmanias longest running play The Ship That Never Was, based on a real event in 1834 when the last ship built at the convict settlement at Macquarie Harbour was about to sail for the new prison at Port Arthur but was hijacked by 10 convict shipwrights.
So begins the story of an amazing escape, an extraordinary voyage and an intriguing twist in the tale of The Ship That Never Was.
The Ship Tha ...
The Strahan Golf Club is a nine-hole course, close to central Strahan. Strahan is Tasmania's major west coast town, a four-and-a-half hour drive from Hobart (298 kilometres/185 miles) and Launceston (290 kilometres/180 miles).
Strahan Golf Club features well-kept, watered greens fringed by tall eucalypt trees and the flat course makes for easy walking. Six of the holes have deep h ...
The Strahan Woodworks is a timber workshop and gallery at Strahan on Tasmania's west coast. Strahan is a four-and-a-half hour drive from Hobart (298 kilometres) and Launceston (290 kilometres).
Established in 1990 and linked to the Morrison's Huon Pine Sawmill, Strahan Woodworks specialises in work crafted from Huon pine - one of the world's rarest timbers. Because of the non-rene ...
Guided commercial tours and guided walks can be arranged at Strahan. Climb to the plateau, once logged for Huon pine and today the site of a forestry operation salvaging Huon pine stumps and limbs left by early timber cutters. The boardwalk reaches a lookout tower with views over the plateau and its forests, then continues through a demonstration forest that shows how Huon pines are replanted. ...
Architects, writers, woodturners, gardeners and historians contributed their talents to the acclaimed exhibition West Coast Reflections at the West Coast Visitor Information and Booking Centre. The story of the people of West Coast starts 35,000 years ago with the Aborigines, and proceeds through convict times, mining and forestry. The exhibit includes indoor waterfalls and rainforests, caves, hyd ...
12 The Esplanade, Strahan, Tasmania 7468, Australia
Wilderness Woodworks Strahan is located in the Huon Pine precinct on Tasmania's west coast. This high quality business is highly regarded for its huon pine turnery with the professional craftsmen producing a range of fine crafts and furniture
Rarely do you see the passion and respect for rare timber shine through with hand finished pieces that are truly unique. This is a place where craftsmen com ...
