Crows Nest Apartments

What to see and where to go in the Hobart area:

There are fantastic local shopping opportunities with Australia's leading Deparment Stores.

Things To Do
Salamanca Market 8.00am - 3.00pm each Saturday.
Lady Nelson Sailing Ship tours, each weekend approx. cost $10 pp
City Tours - Hobart sights, Mt Wellington & City sights.
Cascade Brewery Tours, a ferry cruise around the Derwent River. Cadbury Chocolate tours, by car or ferry.
National Trust walking tours of Battery Point or buy a $2.00 trail of discovery map from & take the same tour at your leisure, with full information about Kelly Steps, Nanny Goat Lane & our beautiful old Battery Point buildings, "what a bargain".

Moorilla Winery, Putters golf for the children indoors and out doors, Bowling Alley, Derwent Entertainment Centre, Local Markets.
Beautiful beaches within a few minutes drive. The visitors centre at the top of Mt. Wellington has breathtaking panoramic views from what feels like the top of the world.
Get on the Big Bus and enjoy all the local points of interest at your own pace; just jump on and off the bus when it suits you.

Take a historical stroll through Salamanca Place and Battery Point learning the history of old Hobart Town. Royal Tasmanian Botanical Gardens: - Enjoy the perfect day out in Tasmania's premier garden - unique flora (including the largest collection of mature conifers in the Southern Hemisphere), Sub-Antarctic House, Conservatory, Japanese Garden and Discovery centre. Dine at the restaurant or picnic in the tranquil surroundings

Cascade Brewery: Tantalise the taste buds with one of the country's finest beers in Australia’s oldest operational brewery. Guided tours available.

Tasmanian Museum and Art Gallery: Extensive displays of Tasmanian fauna, maritime and convict history. Many early colonial paintings.

Theatre Royal: Australia's oldest theatre and the only remaining example of the Victorian 'bijou style'.

Penitentiary Chapel Historic Site: Georgian ecclesiastical architecture, former chapel and criminal court, has underground passages, solitary cells and an execution yard. Day and evening tours available.

Tasmanian Transport Museum: Restored station Museum, displays, relics, photographic history of the Tasmanian Railways. Steam & diesel-electric locomotives, railcars, trams and Hobart trolley buses. Diesel train rides on the first Sunday of each Month. Steam locomotive runs on the third Sunday of the month.

Tasmanian Distillery and Museum: in the old gasworks building. Take the guided tour; learn the history, watch the distilling process buy spirits such as 'Sullivan's Cove Whisky' in the shop.

Narrynya Heritage Museum: a nationally significant collection of furniture, china, silver and paintings in one of Hobart's earliest colonial homes (1836).

Risdon Cove: located 8kms up river, the site is the location of the first European Settlement site in Tasmania, founded in 1803 only to be abandoned 5 months later in favour of the current location of Hobart City. Risdon Cove was returned to the land's traditional owners in 1995. Little has changed in the last 192 years making it a unique tourist destination.

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