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Close to Hobart’s top attractions UH Centrally situated In historic Battery Point Only 1 1 /2 km from Hobart’s Casino. 1 km from G.P.O. ® All the comforts of home - each heated unit has colour T.V., telephone, radio, fridge, > tea/coffee facilities and electric blankets. ', © or luxury family suites with fully equiped kitchens. • ® Close to some of Hobart’s finest restaurants and culinary delights. © Minutes walk to shops and squash courts. For warm hospitality & personal service phone (002) 23 2861, telex thru 58165. 96a Sandy Bay Rd., Hobart, Tasmania.

W ' Looking across the lush green pastures and beautiful orchards of the Huon Valley it's hard to imagine the landscape that greeted the earliest explorers. So inhospitable and heavily timbered, it was condemned com- ’ -—— — pletely for settlement. What a mistake! The Abel Tasman first sighted the island that now bears his name in 1642 but ? district has since produced timber and mistook it for part of the Australian mainland. 150 years later another potatoes for export top quality small fruits, navigational error gave the D'Entrecasteaux Channel its name. J and it is the centre of Tasmania's world A French expedition of two ships anchored in a channel between the famous apple industry. Tasmanian mainland and an island believing it to be the mouth of the Today timber, apples and cattle are the Derwent River. In command were Admiral Bruni D'Entrecasteaux and ma j O r local industries and a growing number Captain Huon Kermandec. They did not stay long but returned about a o f commuters are taking advantage of the year later and explored the Huon River by whaleboat. chance to enjoy country life within easy < Their names, as well as those of their ships, the Recherche and the reach of Hobart. Esperance, are commemorated in the D'Entrecasteaux Channel, Bruny Island, the Huon River and its tributary the Kermandie, the districts and towns named after them and Esperance and Recherche Bays. , _ w IL wMiinutnmt X ,5= 7 (J"”' I Gordon It-u \ J Strawberries , and other fresh Cross to Bruny Island by car ferry — from Kettering. The 55km long island has beautiful beaches, ri P », reo ch«rr.«» .-Ay, —//, < fascinating history, and unforget- fj \ . able views and beaches. Watch for S - v ■ fairy penguins on the long sandy isthmus that divides the island. ’‘"V-sjsx —s' ——> Woodbridge "JpZ 'J' X kV L* Fine food and y hospitality c / s' S' —”zX L ( Oyster Cove Inn Marina /' sF ,<■ / -ZC X _ . ygjfll o -T V, XX * , Baltes Hill Tea H.iiX) \ * J .. ggoXs^-— — ■X>X and gallery X, of fine pottery ' 8 oq=; ~ CT Model Train World — 1 \ vW^u3£C«r\'Vijinot siXf-rri — _ ' l 1 ‘—> s .A X , , X. X X Motor Museum j ■I Kingston* XT. -—rrrW' JBIJ Working display to -4X -*»» iV,J .J* 1 _ '• —>xA>3s delight all ages "s-— JjF- Gleaming ..mage c^—? , ,I t r EJjST* 1 S ,X ; >lioi'l oucr Historic and unique ~ I onuipv* R/><64, ‘ ' Stone tower £ v **. XI udar Court ) Merry Olde England ; .n Wx D'Entrecasteaux Detours offer a round trip JXXtJ>~>ffom Hobart to. give you a real taste gf •• tr«»\ X, Tasmania's famed hospitality. Give yourself x •■•• •" /X V/ X. a day or more to enjoy the magnificent X y'" x • scenery and the activities featured here PBv \Z m r\ / / b The D'Entrecasteaux Channel shows no c/ / A trace of its.violent past when whalers Z slaughtered their prey aqd the last of the xTWmI i 1 Oyster Cove aborigines died in nearby hills after years of persecution. Now the peaceful i towns with their English-sounding names M * : = ::S XZ * are the centres for fishing and farming T • ’ S,S Xk rx’ > industries, commuters, and holiday-makers. The wide stretches of sheltered waterways "X . dekwe.XT 111 ver are loved by yachtsmen and once supported an j mportant scallop fishery. Kettering and 7 scenery and the activities featured here. To start your D'Entrecasteaux take Sandy ’ X , X Bay Road out of Hobart Stick to the main t f““ y ’ | road through the suburbs of Sandy Bay and LJvCXiZ’X t Taroona then follow the highway straight on v through Kingston. The round trip is 142 km. ' OB a a 4 JIf you're in a hurry you can shorten it by 1 1 v turning off past Kettering to take Wood- k bridge Hill Rd., over the hills to Cygnet. >. / W Og/fe XX. O V xv M v You'll find good fishing by boat, or from / m jetties or rocks all along the coastline. I Jk jg \ JI Safe, sandy beaches are at Kingston, Black- I a /iO" •■ 'XsLx mans Bay, Snug, Coningham, Gordon, r 1 '''''''' '' Verona Sands.and Randalls Bay. To stretch ' ' ''' your legs the Snug Tiers Waterfall, 30 I X 't . minutes walk from Snug, is a spectacular I ' \ ' Z''Z'. '.) sight. \j y