The holiday cottages feature polished wooden floor boards, warm fires, queen size beds, a fully equipped kitchen and dinning area - these Art deco holiday cottages are self contained, rather large time capsules with modern facilities.
*Rated by the UK Consumers group magazine “Holiday Which” as one of the places to stay in Tasmania.
The cottages are self contained with fully equipped kitchen dining area,lounge and laundry. Three bedroom holiday cottages have two queen size bedrooms plus a twin single or bunk beds.
The Scholars House is relaxed and friendly, contemporary conversion of the former Highland schoolhouse.
School rooms are two storey en-suite apartments each with a queen size bed upstairs and a sitting area with flat screen and dvd downstairs. Warm fireside snug, laundry, internet, rocking horse, lots of room and a little nostalgia. Interconnecting rooms, family and ‘less-abled’ suites are all available and there is easy parking outside and even access to a fully equipped chef’s kitchen.
Tasmania is trout fishing country, specifically fly fishing for brown trout. Learn the art and craft of fly fishing with Australia’s best guides, create your own fly and then bring home the wildest brown trout nature can find – up to 20 pounds earlier this year from water you can just see from the Lodge.
There are over thirty lakes and at least six mountain streams within a thirty-minute drive of the Tarraleah Estate. Fishing in Tasmania is often ‘sight fishing’ where you spot and then stalk a specific fish; tremendously exciting.
Walking on the Tarraleah Estate or further into the wilderness can be a profoundly moving component of your adventure holiday in Australia... or a simply enjoyable experience. Adventure holiday types based in holiday cottages or luxury accommodation in the Lodge, are all within a short drive of the Overland Trail. More modest walks of between fifty minutes to a couple of hours can all start on the Tarraleah Estate. There are three feature adventure walks: the Quoll Walk; The Eagle Track and; The Waterfall Walk. Almost every guest to the Estate makes the Waterfall Walk a priority, walking along a path through temperate rainforest, towering gums and huge ferns, often accompanied by the intriguing songs of lyrebirds.
Wildlife & Flora - The Estate is home to unique Tasmania wilderness - including many of Tasmania’s unique animal residents. Walk quietly and you will enter a magical kingdom. Or book a guided walk to the waterfall, a night wildlife spotting tour or even one of the more specialised activities which include wild platypus tours and a conversation with the last man to have seen a Tasmanian tiger wild in the Tasmania wilderness. Animals spotted on the Tarraleah estate, in the last three months, include the spotted-tailed quoll, the eastern quoll, Tasmanian devils, dusky antechinus, swamp antechinus, common wombat, common ringtail possum, sugar glider, common brushtail possum, long-nosed potoroo, Tasmanian bettong, Tasmanian pademelon (Rufus wallaby), red-necked wallaby (Bennett’s wallaby), platypus, echidna, greater long-eared bat, lesser long-eared bat, chocolate wattle bat, little forest eptesicus, King river eptesicus, long-tailed mouse and last but not least, the broad-toothed rat.