See & Do

Your journey begins...

Heading west from Burnie over the Sisters Hills passing rolling farmland on the right is the junction for the Rocky Cape National Park, known for Aboriginal caves, unique rock formations, walking tracks, ship wrecks and reef diving.
Back out onto the Bass Hwy take the Mawbanna turnoff and travel approx 27km on a mostly sealed road to Dip Falls and the nearby Big Tree.

Further along the Highway is the turnoff to Stanley an historic fishing village and one time home of the Van Diemans Land Company based at the historic Highfield House which is open for tours. A chairlift to the top of the "Nut", the remaining plug of a long ago volcano rising 150 metres from the sea, provides a flat walk with views of the surrounding coastline and countryside. Stanley boasts several dining places where visitors can enjoy world class fresh local produce.

Travelling west to Smithton, the largest town in the "Tarkine Coast" and also the processing hub for the surrounding agricultural, aquaculture, horticultural and forest industries. It is also the junction where to the left is the start of the Tarkine Drive, centre to Marrawah and the rugged west coast and through town and heading northwest to Woolnorth and Cape Grim.

South of Marrawah the sealed road arrives at Arthur River a small coastal settlement. Moving south and the east on the Tarkine Drive there is the star of the Western Explorer, a gravel road 80km in length, across a mainly rolling coastal heath landscape ending at Corrinna the southern most corner of the region. Accommodation and meals are available before crossing the Pieman River by punt to head on down to Strahan.