The North of Tasmania, from Rocky Cape to the northeast coast

Devonport is the ferry’s entry point and departure to the mainland. A scenic coastal road leads west, via small towns, to Rocky Point National Park, with walking trails to formerly inhabited caves and still of great significance to the Tasmanian Aboriginal people. Launceston is Tasmania’s second city, with Cataract Gorge on the South Esk River and a great museum. Further east is Beauty Point with Seahorse World, Australia’s only working seahorse farm. Mount William National Park is on the northeastern point of the island.

East Devonport from the ferry “Spirit of Tasmania”, linking Tasmania with Geelong, Victoria; view to Aikenhead Point, with in the background Mersey Bluff.

The Mersey Bluff Lighthouse, built at the end of the 19th century and converted to electric power in 1920, on Mersey Bluff, Devonport.

Lichen on the rocks of Mersey Bluff, Devonport.

A petroglyph made by the Aboriginal people, near the town of Devonport.

Coastal view from Penguin Road near the Three Sisters, 25 kilometres west of Devonport.

Sisters Beach, looking towards Rocky Cape National Park, 85 kilometres northwest of Devonport.

Coastal view towards Sisters Beach, Rocky Cape National Park.

View from the Lee Archer Cave Track, in Rocky Cape National Park.

View from Anniversary Bay Circuit on Rocky Cape Walking Track, to Sisters Beach village.

The coast from the lighthouse at Rocky Cape on the north west coast of Tasmania.

Coastal view near the North Cave, Rocky Cape National Park.

View from the end of Rocky Cape Road, Rocky Cape (Tangdimmaa) National Park.

The large North Cave in Rocky Cape National Park, of great significance to the Tasmanian Aboriginal people.

View from Wilmot Road, Lower Wilmot, 28 kilometres south of Devonport.

Dawn over Deloraine, an inland town, started in 1831 in the north of Tasmania. In the background Quamby Bluff; in 1988.

The old Deloraine Hotel has operated in the town of Deloraine since 1848.

Flying over the fields of northern Tasmania, near Launceston.

View to the River Tamar from Bradys Lookout, along the West Tamar highway in Rosevears, 20 kilometres northwest of Launceston.

View over the Tamar River in Launceston, Tasmania's second city, in 1988.

Cataract Gorge on the South Esk River, Launceston's own piece of wilderness approximately 1.5 kilometres from the city centre.

The South Esk River from the suspension bridge in Cataract Gorge Reserve, West Launceston.

The swimming pool along Cataract Gorge near Launceston.

View in Cataract Gorge Reserve, with its chairlift, swimming pool and suspension bridge over the South Esk River in West Launceston.

The view to Duck Reach Power Station on the South Esk River, West Launceston.

Dinosaur display, in the Queen Victoria Museum, Invermay, Launceston.

Model of a thylacine (Thylacinus cynocephalus), commonly known as the Tasmanian tiger or Tasmanian wolf, in the Queen Victoria Museum, Launceston. It is an extinct carnivorous marsupial that was native to the Australian mainland and the islands of Tasmania and New Guinea. The last known of its species died in 1936 at Hobart Zoo in Tasmania.

Model of a Diprotodon (Ancient Greek: “two protruding front teeth”), an extinct genus of marsupial from the Pleistocene, in the Queen Victoria Museum. The earliest finds date to 1.77 million to 780,000 years ago but most specimens are dated to after 110,000 years ago. It is the largest-known marsupial to have ever lived; it greatly exceeds the size of its closest living relatives wombats and koalas.

View to Tamar Yacht Club Marina and Wybia Spit on River Tamar in Beauty Point.

A leafy seadragon (Phycodurus eques) or Glauert's seadragon, in Seahorse World, Beauty Point.

The wooden Uniting Church in Scottsdale, 61 kilometres northeast of Launceston.

Bike shops in Derby, 33 kilometres east of Scottsdale in northeast Tasmania.

Little Blue Lake, 8 kilometres southwest of Scottsdale in northeast Tasmania. Originally a mine hole, the lake reflects a vivid aqua blue from the minerals in its base.

View from Eddystone Point in Mount William National Park, rocks with lichen, on the northeast Tasmanian coast.

View to the Eddystone Point Lighthouse in Mount William National Park.