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Depends a little on what you are interested in looking at. did you have a look at that discover tasmania website under things to see?
http://www.discovertasmania.com.au/h....cfm?SiteID=91
here is a list of national parks, and things to see in them
http://www.parks.tas.gov.au/natparks/index.html
Specific things worth looking at include the natural formations around the tasman peninsula such as the tesselated pavement, eaglehawk neck, the coal mines, port authur (of course), tasmans arch, the devils kitchen, remarkable cave and the blowhole.
On the east coast you have a few wineries, freycenet etc etc. Bicheno is worth a visit as well. In bicheno you have abother blowhole, as well as a nice town. If you can manage it a walk out to diamond island is well worth while. You can only walk over at low tide, but it is absoluteley covered in penguins. Obviously you won't see too many during the day, but if you look in the nooks and crannies amongst the rocks (it's a small island) you will find them. Just be carefull around all of the burrows in the soil areas, there is hardly a spare inch that isn't a hole. Ankle breaker to the unwairy, as well as penguin home killer. Not sure if any tourist companies run penguin night tours or not. Doublas appsley national park nearby is nice, and it has a great swimming hole about 5 mins from the southern carpark. The gorge walk is spectacular, but don't walk back to the carpark via the canyon, it's an extremely tough walk, and is much longer than it looks on the map.
Mariah island is good if you have the time to visit, a lot of history there. Freycenet you have a few places to see. The hazzards themselves are pretty obvious, but the saddle walk to wineglass bay is fantastic and is worth the climb. The lighthouse also offers spectacular views. Plenty of touristy things to do from kayaking to fishing trips.
Launceston area has quite a bit. the gorge is defeniteley worth a visit, as is the duck reach power station which from memory is the countries first power station. We've got boags and the brewery tour. Tamar island is ok, but I probably wouldn't bother. Ben lomond is nearby and is a fascinating place. Jacobs ladder is drivable in 2wd vehicles, and often is, however it can be rater scary in appearance, and take it easy on the way down. THere are quite a few wineries in the tamar vally region, a number of which are very nice. Pipers brook is an exceptional one, but is a little further out. If you are out that way bridport may be worth a visit. If you are interested in old houses there is clarendon out near evendale (worth a visit in itself, a quaint little town).
Down south in hobart you have the salamanca market on saturdays, a must to do. Of course you have cadbruys and the cascade brewery. a drive to the top of mount wellington is worth while (paved the whole way, unlike ben lomond), and the views of hobart are fantastic. Huonville is very nice, as is geeveston, and the tahune airwalk is well worth the trip down that far south. The maratime museum isn't bad either (in hobart). The shot tower is also a fascinating building and is worth a visit.
On the west coast touristy things and historic things are everywhere. The museum at Zeehan is fantastic, and go for a drive through the spray tunnel (trailer probably won't fit through though). it is 2wd accessable. Strahn you have the cruises and jet boat rides. The ABT railway to queenstown etc etc etc. Plenty of tourist info on the net about strahn. Queenstown is great as well and has a couple of museums and interesting buildings to see. Not nearly as touristy as strahn. there are a couple of lookouts where you can look down into the open cut mines, and ov course there is the lunar landscape of queenstown itself. I think you can still do mine tours as well.
I've probably glossed over a few areas, and I haven't covered the north west, or midlands, i'll do that tomorrow if I have time.
If you google specific areas you will come up with a lot of the tourism websites which will give you more details on most of these areas. Also search AULRO as i've posted a few things in the tassie threads in the past few years.
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http://www.bootsnall.com/articles/05...australia.html
Tas driving distances
attractions
information about things to see by region
some downloadable tourist brochures
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