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Friday, 30 July 2010
 
- Tasman National Park

The Tasman National Park offers an diverse forest and coastlines, including some of the most stunning coastal scenery.  In the southern part of the park there are some of the highest and most spectacular sea cliffs in Australia.

It is located in south-eastern Tasmania on the Tasman and Forestier Peninsulas. 

There are many different walks to be done... walks leading you through historic sites, leading you to natural wonders and walks leading you through the thick forests and along the coastlines of this beautiful peninsula.

 

 

 

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Coal Mine
Coal Mine Historic Site

It's an easy 1-2 hours walk through the picturesque site on the Tasman Peninsula that once (1834 -1877) housed up to 600 convicts who laboured in the underground tunnels shipping coal. The coal mines settlement was a punishment station for convicts from Port Arthur... for those repeting offenders of the "worst class".


 

 

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Remarkable Cave

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Remarkable Cave 

A few kilometres south of Port Arthur is the famous “remarkable cave” at the end of a short walk down the stairs to the beach.

 

  

 

 

 

 

 

 


Blowhole - Tasman Arch - Devil's Kitchen

It's a short and easy walk along some of the impressing miracles of nature near Eaglehawk Neck.

There's easy access with your private car or public transport. 

To understand how nature created those sights best walk the track beginning from the Blowhole to the Tasman Arch and finsih with Devil's Kitchen.

 

 

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Blowhole
The Blowhole: The water carved out the softer parts of the stone until a small underground cave was build. Now a small part of the ceiling collapsed and created this “cauldron”. If the weather is windier the sound is deafening!

 

 

 

 

 

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Tasman Arch

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

The Tasman Arch is a natural bridge and the second step on our list… after a huge part of the ceiling of the former Blowhole collapsed and after the water level dropped this huge bridge appeared.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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Devil's Kitchen

 

 

 

 

The third step is Devil's Kitchen where a natural bridge collapsed and only left this deep gap... really a Devil's Kitchen with foaming, boiling water...

 

 



 
 
 
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