Fancy restaurants are all well and good, but there are times – especially if you have young children – when a picnic is far more fun. No worrying about table manners, no two-hour time limit, and the freedom to make the menu as simple or as complicated as you like. The Huon Valley is packed…

I’ve lived in Tasmania three times. I came here first as a teenager with my parents – my father was the Tasmanian connection. He’d not been back in the preceding 20 years and Tasmania, then, was a different place. We lasted two years before we all decamped to Adelaide but I’m pretty sure we never…

It’s a delightful drive from Hobart to the riverside town of Franklin, through the farms and orchards of the Huon Valley and over the bridge across the broad Huon River. As you crest Vince’s Saddle and look out towards the peaks of the World Heritage Area, then cruise down the sweeping bends to the Grove…

‘Winsome remembers her family would get a ride on a truck from their home to the hut on Monday mornings with their supplies for the week.’

On the cliffs of South Cape Bay there’s nothing but deep sea and somewhere out there – Antarctica. When we hop in the car to drive to the end of Australia’s southern-most road, Tasmania is in a mood. Thoughts of blue bird skies are dashed with every defiant windscreen swipe. Sheets of rain dull the…

When Sushi Chef Masaaki Koyama met an English teacher in his native Osaka, he could not have foreseen that decision would lead him to a life in Geeveston, Tasmania. Masaaki’s love of sushi making began as a young boy, learning from his grandmother and fisherman father in rural Japan. Raised in a small village south…