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The bucket-list things to do — and the private, expert-led way to do each.
Here’s the bucket list for your day ashore: the most extraordinary thing to do at each stop, and the private, small-group, or expert-led way to make it yours — your own pace, real access, none of the crowd.
Step inside Australia's most haunting convict story with a premium, small-group guided tour of the UNESCO-listed Port Arthur Historic Site — an immersive journey through penal-colony grandeur, gothic ruins, and extraordinary human drama.
Cruise past the tallest sea cliffs in the Southern Hemisphere aboard a purpose-built vessel, rounding the wild Tasman Peninsula to reach remote Tasman Island — a bucket-list journey through one of Australia's last great coastal wildernesses.
As darkness falls over the sandstone ruins, join a lantern-lit ghost tour of Port Arthur — one of the most genuinely chilling paranormal experiences in the world, steeped in documented history and extraordinary atmosphere.
Cross the still waters of Mason Cove by boat to Port Arthur's hauntingly beautiful Isle of the Dead — the convict-era burial ground — then on to Point Puer, the world's first reformatory for juvenile convicts, with a specialist guide all to yourself.
Enjoy the entire Tasman Peninsula as your personal playground — from Port Arthur's convict ruins to the roaring sea at Remarkable Cave and the wild clifftops of Cape Hauy — in a chauffeured, private vehicle with an expert local guide.
Glide along the base of Cape Raoul's extraordinary dolerite organ-pipe columns — soaring 300 metres from the sea — on a 90-minute small-boat wildlife cruise that also includes full Port Arthur Historic Site entry.
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