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Southport Hotel & Caravan Park |
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Australia`s Southernmost Pub! |
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Eftpos & Credit Card Facilities Available |
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Local attractions include beautiful coastal walks, swimming and surfing beaches.
The Hastings Caves and Thermal Springs are some of the finest dolomite caves in Australia and a guided tour will provide an insight into their 40 million year long formation. After the tour, take swim in the thermal springs in the rain forest, naturally heated at a constant 28 degrees.
Adamson's Falls and Adamson's Peak, the Mystery Creek Caves, and Lunaris Gemstone Museum shop, A comprehensive display of fossils and agates from the local gem fields as well as minerals, rocks and fossils from around the world. Hartz Mountains National Park is a window into the south-west wilderness, offering views of remote mountain ranges as far as the southern coast. Spectacular views of a landscape which has been shaped by glaciers during past ice ages.
The Tahune Air Walk is an exhilarating nature-based experience set in one of Tasmania`s most world-renowned forests, the Tahune Forest Reserve, which is home to the world`s tallest flowering plant - Eucalyptus regnans. The Air Walk is a visually spectacular walkway that takes you on a journey through the tops of the trees in this stunning wet eucalypt forest.
There is a road around the coast which leads to the local Surf Beach, Roaring Beach, and on to Sisters Bay and Lady Bay, also former mill towns now all but abandoned but very pretty.
Heading south towards Australia's southernmost point and the end of the road at Cockle Creek, is Lune River and Ida Bay, where a 6 km railway line once used to transport limestone now transports tourists.
There is a monument on Southport Bluff, a healthy 40 minute walk from the road, to the convict ship George III which was wrecked off the coast in 1835 with the loss of 94 passengers. |
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Hastings Caves |
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Adamson`s Peak |
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Ida Bay Railway, Lune River |
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Things to see & do |