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West Coast Tas West Coast Tasmania is a little west of centre. Discover nature, and your true nature.
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Destination West Coast is an association representing tourism operators and the tourism industry on West Coast Tasmania Australia.

07/09/2026

The Lazy Prospector doesn’t ask anything of you.

A queen bed, a deep soak bath behind a rustic barn door, a wood fire heater — and a hand-built swing bed on the back verandah, facing straight into Mount Dundas.

Tucked on the outskirts of Zeehan, this old barn-wood cabin is built for two. Come dusk, expect wallabies at the treeline and kookaburras doing the talking. In town, an IGA, two pubs, and the West Coast Heritage Centre everything else is just mountain.

Some nights the peak sits under mist. Some nights it’s snow-capped. Some nights it turns pink. You won’t know until you’re on the swing.

📍 Zeehan
🛏️ Queen bed, sleeps 2
🛁 Deep soak bath + wood fire heater
🅿️ Secure parking, free wifi, laundry

A little bit of West Coast magic 🙌
31/08/2026

A little bit of West Coast magic 🙌


20/08/2026

Ocean Beach doesn’t do quiet sunsets. It does the kind that fill half the sky.

Tasmania’s longest beach, facing straight into the Southern Ocean. When the light goes, it goes big. Molten gold burning through cloud, swell still hammering in.

Stay past the point where you think it’s over. This one keeps changing.

golden hour, unfiltered.

10/08/2026

Just outside Zeehan, hand-carved through solid rock, is a tunnel that once carried the West Coast’s silver fortune out of the hills.

Built in the late 1880s to move ore from the Spray Silver Mine, this hundred-metre passage was cut by hand no machines, just pick and shovel and the promise of what was underneath. Look closely and you’ll notice its strange keyhole shape, widened at the top so steam boilers could be hauled through to the mine.

Walk it today and you’ll find glow worms lighting the ceiling, and at the far end, the quiet remains of a mine that helped make Zeehan one of the biggest towns in Tasmania.

It’s an easy walk, a short detour off the road and one of the most quietly remarkable things you’ll find on the West Coast.

06/08/2026

West coast from above where the old mining scars meet the wild. Some places you have to see from the sky to understand.

🎥 Aaron Jones Photography

Ten minutes out of Queenstown, the road cuts past a town that isn’t there anymore.Linda had four hotels once. A school, ...
29/07/2026

Ten minutes out of Queenstown, the road cuts past a town that isn’t there anymore.

Linda had four hotels once. A school, a football team, a brass band. Six hundred people came for the Mount Lyell ore in the boom years around 1900. The Royal Hotel still stands just its grey frame the last thing left standing of a street that used to hum.

The mine moved on. So did everyone else.

Now it’s grass and ruin and a building slowly giving itself back to the valley. Stop the car. Have a look. This is the West Coast’s way of remembering.

📍 Linda, Tasmania

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23/07/2026

There’s a reason the West Coast gets more rain than anywhere else in Tasmania.

It’s complicated. Convection, orographic lift, the Roaring Forties colliding with an ancient rainforest.

Or, as the locals say — it rains.

Come feel it on your face.

📍 West Coast Tasmania

14/07/2026

running up iconic streets for the shot? we’re into it. but don’t be a galah about it, if traffic’s everywhere, that’s not your moment. This stretch of queenstown was dead quiet when it was captured, so it worked. safety first, every time. no exceptions.

10/07/2026

This might be the best free camping spot in tasmania. You can fight me in the comments.

Lake rosebery, six seconds in and you already know!
Drop a 🏕️if you've camped here. drop a ❌if you haven't been yet - you need to.
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Hogarth Falls, StrahanSwap the pavement pounding for this.Twenty minutes, give or take, into tannin water moving slow an...
08/07/2026

Hogarth Falls, Strahan

Swap the pavement pounding for this.

Twenty minutes, give or take, into tannin water moving slow and dark under the canopy. This is the West Coast, the rain gets in, the cold gets in, and that’s the point. Immersive isn’t a buzzword down here, it’s a feeling: your brain filing this away as a memory precisely because your skin’s paying attention.

No traffic lights, no personal best to chase. Just weather doing what weather does, and you, finally, feeling it.

📍 Hogarth Falls, Strahan
🚶‍♀️ 20 mins each way, easy grade

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