It's time to stop and smell the wildflowers 🪻 Spring has sprung around Tasmania, bringing a kaleidoscope of colour to the island. If you're out and about, keep your eyes peeled for bright blooms like alpine daisies, Tasmanian waratahs, flowering scoparia and orchids. Wondering where to see these pretty petals? Cradle Mountain-St Clair National Park, Walls of Jerusalem National Park, Tasman National Park and Kunanyi / Mount Wellington are all great places for flower-spotting.📍Flowers filmed near Gordon River Road Hobart & Beyond Lyell Highway West Coast Tas and Crater Lake circuit (5.7km) in Cradle Mountain-Lake St Clair National Park Visit North West Tasmania 📷 IG / kayleigh_journeys #DiscoverTasmaniaImage description: Multi-coloured wildflowers of pink, yellow and red grow across green, mountainous wilderness areas.
Add this heritage building and design centre to your Launceston list. After strolling through Launceston’s City Park, pop into @designtasmania to discover a showcase of Tasmanian creativity. Bask in the glow of stained-glass windows while admiring woodwork, ceramics and jewellery created by local makers, then pop across the street to @breadandbuttertasmania for a coffee and sweet treat. Entry to the gallery and store is free.Ready to connect with Tasmania’s unique arts and culture scene? Head to the link in bio for a closer look. 📍 Design Tasmania, Launceston, Visit Northern Tasmania�#DiscoverTasmania Image description: A historic white building with a classical facade stands out against a bright blue sky and grey tarmac road. A person approaches the glass and timber entrance beside the building and opens the door. Inside the building features warm timber floorboards, stained-glass windows and lofty gallery rooms showcasing handcrafted timber designs and furniture, ceramic urns and objects. The person enters a light and airy showroom with textiles and small ceramic vases presented on white, box-shaped platforms, where the person touches a blue-grey thickly woven, woollen throw.
Sometimes you just have to scratch that itch. 📍Maria Island, East Coast Tasmania ⚠️ Please keep a respectful distance from wildlife (at least 2m), so they can continue to be just that: wild. Image Description: A wombat scratches its rear against a bicycle lying in the grass.
Welcome to the Boathouse. Find this yellow shack affectionately known as the ‘Restaurant With No Food’, on King Island – a little haven 80km off north-west Tasmania. Bring along some of King Island’s finest food and the Boathouse will provide the rest: plates and cutlery, a record player with vinyl to spin, an old piano and local paintings for sale. This place represents what King Island is all about: community connection, fresh produce and seaside relaxation with a quirky twist. So, what food are you bringing to the Boathouse? There’s cheese from @kingislanddairy or, closer by in the Currie town centre, grab some premium lamb and beef from @islandprovidore; cakes, coffees, sandwiches and salads from @kingislandlarder; or crayfish pies and other top bites from the local bakery and grocer. Find the Boathouse a short drive or 10min scenic stroll east of Currie’s town centre on King Island.📍 The Boathouse (aka Restaurant With No Food), @visitkingisland @visitnorthwesttasmania �#DiscoverTasmania Image description: A sunshine-yellow boathouse sits upon a rocky shore beside green coastal vegetation underneath a tall white lighthouse. Boats line the harbour upon a jewel-like blue sea. Inside the Boathouse, a woman sits by the window reading a book with a glass of wine among colourful tables and chairs. A man plays an old piano under a ceiling draped with orange buoys on ropes.
This just in: Gordon Ramsay has named Tasmania one of his favourite food destinations in the world🍴🌏
And it’s not just celebrity chefs praising our little island. The people have spoken: Tasmania has been voted the second ‘Best Island in Australasia and South Pacific’ in the 2025 Condé Nast Traveler Readers’ Choice Awards. We aren’t freaking out at all. Well, maybe a bit.
👉 Watch the full video (and read about all the Readers’ Choice winners) from @condenasttraveller and @cntraveler at the link in their bio.
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Image description: A black and white map of Australia appears. Gordon Ramsay sits in a warmly lit, gold-toned restaurant wearing a russet-coloured jacket. Timber whisky barrels and machinery appear. In the background, a diver swims through an aquamarine sea as sunlight pokes through the water.
This is the soul of Tasmania’s west coast. Dig deeper into this once bustling mining town with these Queenstown must-dos: 👟 Wander historic streetscapes and vibrant modern murals. 🎭 Explore eclectic collections in the @galley_museum and Art Deco delights at @theparagontheatre. 🚂 Hop on the vintage @westcoastwildernessrailway for a ride into remote rainforest. 🚲 Hike or bike the Mt Owen MTB Trail Network or join a @roamwildtasmania tour to a real-life ghost town. ☕️ Refuel in olde world style at @empirehotelqueenstown. Queenstown is a 2.5hr drive from Devonport, a 3hr 15min drive from Launceston, and around 4hr drive from Hobart.📍 Queenstown, West Coast Tas�🎥 IG / explorewithelise_�#DiscoverTasmania �Image description: A straight, black-tarmac road lined with heritage buildings stretches through a town towards the forested foothills of a bare, rocky mountain bathed in golden sunlight. The heritage streetscape features a yellow and peach Federation Free Style clock tower. Steam gushes from the engine of a black and red train. The train chugs along tracks past green grass and suburban trees.
Tucked away in Tasmania’s north west is Trowutta Arch. Take a gentle, 1.1km walk from the car park through tall sassafras and myrtle trees to reach this calm oasis.Formed when an ancient limestone cave collapsed, it left behind a striking archway and a vivid green sinkhole more than 20m deep.Just a 50min drive south of Stanley, add this to your north-west Tasmania adventure list.📍 Trowutta Arch, Trowutta Caves State Reserve, Takayna / Tarkine Visit North West Tasmania IG : elises.traveldiary #DiscoverTasmania Image description: Underneath a shadowy arch, a person stands on a rocky ledge overlooking a vivid green pool. Sheer stone walls, streaked with moss and lichen, rise around the water with sunlight filtering in from above.
Only accessible via kayak or cruise along the Pieman River, this hidden gem is well worth the effort. How to get to Lovers Falls: 🚣 Hire a kayak from Corinna and glide along the Pieman River, then tie up at the wooden staircase and follow the boardwalk. Allow 1 hour each way. ⛴️ Alternatively, you can sit back and relax onboard the Sweetwater Cruise. Corinna is the gateway to the Pieman River and southern Takayna / Tarkine rainforest. It’s a 3hr 30min drive west of Launceston, and a 2hr 20min drive south-west of Devonport.📍 Lovers Falls, Corinna, @westcoasttas�🎥 @explorewithelise_�#DiscoverTasmania �⚠️ Tasmania’s weather can change quickly – check conditions and forecasts before heading out on the water and always wear a life jacket. There’s safety in numbers, so go with others, and let someone know where you will be and when you plan to be back. Image description: A blonde woman paddles a kayak through dark water towards a steep timber staircase that climbs into dense green rainforest. A timber boardwalk and stairs zigzag through a lush rainforest of tree ferns. The man stands at a timber railing overlooking a waterfall cascading down a mossy rock face.
More of this, less of the usual. Come down for air.📍 Not your everyday kind of place #DiscoverTasmania
Take a magical journey across Tasmania’s west coast onboard the West Coast Wilderness Railway 🚂🪄Sit back and indulge in a scone or two as the steam train puffs through mining ghost towns, river gorges and World Heritage rainforest, revealing tales of Tasmania’s wild west coast. A range of heritage steam train rides depart from Queenstown several times a week. Historic diesel locomotives also run the rails from Strahan, a 45min drive away, so you can choo-choo-choose your own adventure. All aboard.📍 West Coast Wilderness Railway, Queenstown and Strahan, West Coast Tas�🎥 @thecommonwanderer�#DiscoverTasmania �Image description: Steam rises from the engine of a red and black steam train. People wait to board the train in a heritage station with a large clock and curved roof. The train travels along the rails through green forest. Inside, the decor features timber panelling and dark leather booth seating. A woman and young child look out the window. Two glasses of sparkling wine sit on a table. A passenger spreads jam and cream on scones. Looking out from the train’s caboose window, dense forest frames the tracks.
Springtime in Battery Point, complete with a dusting of snow on Kunanyi / Mt Wellington 🏔️ 📍 Battery Point, Hobart, Hobart & Beyond 🎥 TikTok / caradadis #DiscoverTasmaniaImage description: A couple walks down a street lined with cottages. In the background, a tall snow-capped mountain is silhouetted against the blue sky.
Sometimes it’s ok to stop and stare.
📍 Wilmot lookout, Wilmot, @visitnorthwesttasmania
🎥 @lolahubner
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Image description: A herd of black cows walks in line through a field of green grass beside a country road, with a dry field of tan grass in the foreground. The cow’s field slopes down toward khaki-coloured bushland partly obscuring a calm, blue lake. On the far side of the lake, dense bushland rises to meet the forested flanks of a rugged, rocky mountain that is etched against the blue sky.
Something money can’t buy.
📍 Swimcart Beach, Larapuna / Bay of Fires area, @eastcoasttasmania
🎥 @roz_and_loz _and_loz
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Image description: A flock of sea birds lands on a peaceful beach under a sky painted with soft pink and orange clouds, streaked by a faint rainbow. Lush green vegetation fringes the sandy beach with gentle, pale turquoise waves rolling ashore.
Dressed for the weather ✅ Taking it slow and steady ✅ Keeping to the track ✅ Be like this wombat.📍 Cradle Mountain, Visit North West Tasmania 📷 IG/ alexkyddphoto #DiscoverTasmania Image description: A brown wombat ambles across a snowy boardwalk, pauses and scratches an itch, then turns and continues down the track. In the distance, green trees cover a snow-capped mountain.
If you’re road tripping around Bruny Island, pull over at this must-do pitstop and grab some baked treats. Every morning, The Bruny Baker stocks three retro fridges on the side of a country road with crusty golden sourdough, spiced sultana and cinnamon loaves, and crunchy chocolate-coated Anzac biscuits. 📍 The Bruny Baker Bread Fridge, Bruny Island, Hobart and southern Tasmania�🎥 IG/explorewithelise_�#DiscoverTasmania �⚠️ Safety message/pinned comment:⚠️ There's limited roadside parking at the bread fridge. Please drive carefully and provide plenty of notice to other drivers when stopping by and leaving this spot, and avoid blocking the road. Consider these two important things before you drive in Tasmania: weather and wildlife. Drive to the conditions, and remember, you’re sharing the roads with native wildlife, so take it slowly and watch out for animals – particularly at nighttime, dawn and dusk.Image description: Three vintage, faded-white fridges stand upon a timber platform beneath a large gumtree on the side of a gravel road. The word “bread” is printed on the far-left fridge and on a sign stuck to the tree trunk above the fridges. A woman in a hat, flowy white skirt and stripy brown jumper walks to the far-left fridge, opens it and grabs a brown paper bag holding a loaf of bread.
Every now and again, you might catch a perfect mirror image reflected in Dove Lake. 📍 Cradle Mountain-Lake St Clair National Park, Visit North West Tasmania�🎥 IG/alexkyddphoto�#DiscoverTasmania �⚠ ️Supervise children and beware of flowing water. Weather conditions can change quickly and frequently in Tasmania’s alpine areas. Snow, rain, wind and sun are all possible at any time of year, and bushfires can occur between October and March. Make sure you bring walking gear for all weather to protect you from the cold, wet and windy conditions. Image description: A triangular-shaped mountain lightly dusted with snow is perfectly mirrored in the gently lapping waters of a lake. The mountain’s jagged peak, side-lit by sun, juts up towards the baby blue-coloured sky while its flanks slope down to a dark belt of forest that meets the water’s edge, as a thin strip of cloud floats above the shoreline.
This 20min return walk sits on Tasmania’s remote west coast, about a half-hour drive east of the old mining mecca of Queenstown. If you’re visiting Nelson Falls on the drive from Hobart to Queenstown, you’ll take about 3hr 25min to get there – or longer, if you make food stops along the way at charming towns like New Norfolk, Hamilton and Derwent Bridge.📍 Nelson Falls, Franklin-Gordon Wild Rivers National Park, West Coast Tas�🎥 IG / explorewithelise_ �#DiscoverTasmania �⚠️ Supervise children when visiting Tasmania’s waterfalls. Beware of flowing waters and slippery surfaces.Image description: A woman in a beanie and winter jacket takes a relaxed walk along a boardwalk flanked by green vegetation and trees. She gazes up at Nelson Falls, appearing tiny in comparison to the cascades towering beside her. Whitewater spills from a narrow clifftop down a widening cliff face, running between the intricate ridges of black, mossy rocks to meet the river at the woman’s feet.
A little bit of snow won’t put this wombat off his dinner. 📍 Cradle Mountain-Lake St Clair National Park, @visitnorthwesttasmania �🎥 @alexkyddphoto�#DiscoverTasmania ⚠️ Please keep a respectful distance from wildlife, so they can continue to be just that: wild. Weather conditions in the mountains can change quickly. Always carry warm and waterproof clothing when walking in alpine environments. Image description: A small, soft and fluffy brown wombat with pointy ears and beady eyes nuzzles its whiskered nose into the snow to reach the grass below. The creature emerges chewing some grass, with flecks of snow stuck to its face. Behind the wombat is a vast snow-coated hillside.
There’s always time for a mindful moment on one of Tasmania’s many hiking tracks.
📍 The pool of Bethesda, Walls of Jerusalem National Park, @visitnortherntasmania
🎥 @susi.ritter
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Safety info/pinned comment:
⚠️ Weather conditions in the mountains can change quickly. Always carry warm and waterproof clothing when walking in alpine environments.
Image description: A wide, flat peak of a craggy mountain rises sharply above a band of grey mist behind a tarn, where tall eucalypt and angular pine trees reflect in the tarn’s still waters. In the foreground, a woman in a red jacket, brown beanie and pants sits on a grey boulder and gazes out towards a peaceful mountain scene.
Cocooned in cool-climate rainforest, Russell Falls is the most photographed waterfall in Tasmania.
Wind your way along the1.4km wheelchair-friendly trail (25min return) framed by colossal man -ferns, mossy myrtles and towering swamp gums. Breathe in the lush forest air, listen to the soothing rush of water and feel the brush of spray as the multi-tier falls spill into the picturesque pool.
If you’re visiting after dark, you may catch a glimpse of glow-worms in grottos that line the waterfall track.
Russell Falls is a 70min drive north-west of Hobart, on the eastern boundary of Mount Field National Park. A parks pass is required for entry to Tasmania’s national parks.
📍 Russell Falls, Mount Field National Park, Hobart and Beyond
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Image Description: A woman wearing hiking clothes, a backpack and tan-coloured cap walks on a flat, timber viewing platform. She stands at the railing in front of a waterfall that cascades down two tiers of flat rock shelf into a rock-filled pool framed with ferns. Shafts of filtered sunlight break through the rainforest canopy.
Ever felt called to the dancefloor... by a goat? 🐐💃
It’s not your average winter gig—though Tassie’s not big on average.
Become a goat doofer with Hideaway Farmlet in Penguin. Think boots, beats and bleats. It’s all part of Tassie’s Off Season.
Learn to shimmy through the shiver season. Become a winter person ❄️
Apply now to win a Winternship 👉 https://bit.ly/4kUh0oa
Brush up on your bedtime stories and brace for some sleep-time screeches 'cos Devils at Cradle is after a devil sitter 😈
It’s just one of the Winternships up for grabs in Tassie this Off Season—there’s also a calf concierge, goat doofer, sauna skipper and plenty more.
Let this be your sign to become a winter person ❄️
Apply now to win a Winternship 👉 http://bit.ly/4kQKwLx
Ready to swap hibernation for exhilaration? ❄️
We’re looking to fill 10 Winternships (aka winter internships) in Tasmania this Off Season.
From fragrance foraging to trail trialling, apply now for a Winternship: https://www.discovertasmania.com.au/winternships/
Wombats that graze together, stay together 📍Maria Island National Park, IG/ @eastcoasttasmania 🎥 @roz_and_loz�#DiscoverTasmania �Safety info/pinned comment:⚠️ Please keep a respectful distance from wildlife, so they can continue to be just that: wild.�Image Description: A large mother wombat nibbles grass beside her small baby wombat, moving slowly towards the camera at ground-level. Both are covered in brown fur, with beady eyes and squat legs. Behind them stands an old red-brick barn and some gumtrees.
Now you see me, now you don’t 🫣📍 Maria Island National Park, @eastcoasttasmani�🎥 @geoffswan #DiscoverTasmania ⚠Please keep a respectful distance from wildlife, so they can continue to be just that: wild. Image Description: A mother and juvenile wombat munch on a lawn of luscious grass. The juvenile wombat becomes startled and runs beneath its mothers’ legs, where it continues to eat grass whilst tucked under her body.
Just a wombat showing us how to cold plunge.📍 Maria Island National Park, @eastcoasttasmania🎥 @briarstravelbeat #DiscoverTasmania Image Description: A wombat slowly wading from a grassy flat into shallow creek water. It plunges into deeper water and starts swimming to the near bank, exiting with a shake to dry off, before it runs past people on the shore and across a dirt road towards tree cover.
Hitting the road this summer? Let us know where you’re dreaming of waking up.📍 larapuna / Bay of Fires area, @eastcoasttasmania🎥Kendall Baggerly #DiscoverTasmania Image description: At a sheltered camping spot beneath shady coastal trees, a retro yellow camper van sits stationary with an extendable tray, upon which coffee supplies sit. Just beyond, a contented brown-and-white dog lays on the ground, gazing out towards the pale blue waters of a tranquil bay illuminated by golden sun.
Can confirm: these dreamy lavender fields smell as good as they look 💜☺️ Throughout December and January, Tassie's famous lavender fields burst with purple rows of fragrant flowers, creating truly magical scenes. Pop into Bridestowe Lavender family-owned farm to snap photos amongst the blooms, learn how to use lavender for wellness and cooking and indulge in luxurious lavender products (yep, there's even lavender ice-cream) 🍦🎥: @inalexland📍: @bridestoweestate, @tasmania#DiscoverTasmania #SeeAustralia #ComeAndSayGday ID: Person walking through a field filled with purple flowers, followed by scenes of two people running through rows of flowers and a person picking a flower to smell the fragrance.
When the only task on your to do list is tend to the sauna. Swap your day job for an Odd Job in Tasmania. Apply and view all Odd Jobs here: www.discovertasmania.com.au/oddjobs
Sweat it Out with Selena de Carvalho
The Off Season is a time for warmth, wellness and sweating it out – just ask Elsewhere Sauna owner Selena de Carvalho. Discover Tasmania's best saunas here: https://brnw.ch/21wKDry
📍 Elsewhere Sauna, Hobart & Beyond
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Treading Sustainably
Tasmania is a place to tread sustainably. 🍃 Tune in to the natural world with Milkwood permaculture educator Kirsten Bradley and Tasmanian Walking Company.
Learn more about sustainable travel here: discovertasmania.com.au/experiences/stories/treading-sustainably-with-kirsten-bradley/
📍 Bruny Island, Hobart & Beyond
🎥 Oliver Whone
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