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Tasman Peninsula
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The Tasman Peninsula, steeped in history, is a "must see" for visitors to Tasmania. Filled with natural beauty, horrors of the past are masked by the present tranquility. Nubeena is the largest town on the Tasman Peninsula.
The Port Arthur Historic Site, at Port Arthur, is one of Tasmania's premiere tourist attractions and takes visitors a step back in time to Australia's convict past. Close to Port Arthur are the Tasmanian Devil Park and a timber milling museum.
Eaglehawk Neck, gateway to the Tasman Peninsula, has several spectacular natural features as well its own story from the past. For those seeking to escape the crowds, a visit to Fortescue Bay is definitely on the cards.
Dunalley, through which visitors must pass to reach the Tasman Peninsula, is close to the first European landing in Tasmania.
Recommendation: From the Tasman Peninsula The Nord, a large wreck can be dived. The wreck is covered in all kinds of sessile life such as zoanthids, sponges, sea tulips, sea whips and bryozoans.
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Photos
- Boating at Fortescue Bay - Photo courtesy of Tour of Tasmania
Underwater Recommendations
The peninsula with steep cliffs offers great shore dives on rocky reefs ands piers. Boat dives give access to dense sponge gardens, pinnacles, caves and kelp forests. There is plenty of options to go diving no matter the conditions.
Getting There
The Tasman Peninsula is easily accessible by road from southern and eastern Tasmania. Coaches and charter buses offer regular service to the Tasman Peninsula, but public transportation is limited.
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Reef Creature Identification - Tropical Pacific
- The long-awaited, 500-page reference detailing 1,600 animals with 2,000 photographs and descriptive text is the most comprehensive visual field guide to marine invertebrate life.
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Waterfall Bay Caves on Tasman Peninsula
- The Tasman Peninsula by nature of its topography is mainly only dived by boat. The cliff height on the east coast averages 250 metres for all but Pirates and Fortesque Bays from Tasman Island at the south tip of the Tasman Peninsula to almost Dunalley at the top of the Forestier Peninsula ...
