The East Coast of Tasmania

The East Coast of Tasmania

Tasmania’s east coast, from St. Helens to Bicheno, has blowholes; Freycinet National Park has beautiful views, like Wineglass Bay; Maria Island, a former convict settlement and probation station, is now a National Park; and Tasman National Park on the Tasman Peninsula has spectacular cliffs.

The beach along Binalong Bay, 11 kilometres north of St. Helens, on the north eastern coast of Tasmania.

A quiet street in St. Marys in 1988, 35 kilometres south of St Helens; in the 1830s it was a convict probation station.

Bicheno, a coal mining port in 1854 and now a holiday and fishing town on the eastern coast of Tasmania (1988).

Windsurfing along the beach of Bicheno.

The foreshore at Bicheno on Tasmania's east coast.

The rocky coast at Bicheno in the north east of the island.

The Bicheno Blowhole, a hole in the granite rocks emitting small waves into powerful jets of water, on Tasmania's east coast.

Coles Bay, Freycinet National Park, on Tasmania's east coast.

Richardsons Beach, Freycinet National Park, on Tasmania's east coast.

Coles Bay Lookout, on the Wineglass Bay Track, in Freycinet National Park.

Wineglass Bay Lookout, at 210 metres altitude in Freycinet National Park.

Sleepy Bay, Freycinet National Park, on Tasmania's east coast.

View from Cape Tourville over Cape Bay, Freycinet National Park.

View from Cape Tourville to The Nuggets, granite offshore islands, Freycinet National Park.

The East Coast Heritage Museum on Franklin Street (Tasman Highway) in Swansea, 43 kilometres south of Bicheno.

Spiky Beach, 7 kilometres south of Swansea, looking across to the Freycinet Peninsula and Schouten Island.

Path to Darlington Probation Station on Maria Island.

Darlington Probation Station on Maria Island.

A mother and child pair of wombats (Family Vombatida) on Maria Island.

At the Painted Cliffs on Maria Island.

The Coffee Palace of 1888, one of the main buildings at Maria Island Penitentiary, Darlington Probation Station on Maria Island.

The Visiting Magistrate's and Superintendents' Office of 1846 at Maria Island Penitentiary, Darlington Probation Station on Maria Island.

Ruins of The Grand Hotel on Maria Island.

Cape Barren Goose (Cereopsis novaehollandiae) on Maria Island.

View of Pirates Bay from Tasman National Park Lookout, Eaglehawk Neck.

The “Tesselated Pavement”, a typical geological formation on Forestier Peninsula, south eastern Tasmania.

The “Tesselated Pavement”, a typical geological formation on Forestier Peninsula, south eastern Tasmania.

The “Tesselated Pavement”, a typical geological formation on Forestier Peninsula, south eastern Tasmania.

Tasmans Arch, a natural bridge in the sea cliffs of the Tasman Peninsula, that has also been carved out by the Tasman Sea.

View of the steep cliffs of Tasman Peninsula from the Waterfall Bay Track, in Tasman National Park.

View from Waterfall Bay Lookout, in Tasman National Park.

Telephoto view to The Lanterns with the Candlestick and Totem Pole Peninsula off Cape Hauy, from the Waterfall Bay Track, Tasman National Park.

View along the coast, with in the distance The Lanterns off Cape Hauy, from Cliffs Lookout Point, Tasman National Park.

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