Surfing

• Surf Shipstern Bluff - Australia's heaviest wave.
• Our beaches are never crowded.

One of the best things about surfing in Tasmania is that, as long as you’re willing to travel, you will always find a great ride.

Close to Hobart, Park and Clifton Beaches are the favourite spots. Eaglehawk Neck on the Tasman Peninsula usually has a wave, and all up the east coast from Orford to Bicheno there’ll be somewhere breaking.

Further south, Bruny Island’s Cloudy Bay faces the Southern Ocean - it gets really big breaks. So does South Cape Bay (accessible from Cockle Creek). Surfers carry their boards on a seven-kilometre (4.5-mile) bushwalk through the World Heritage Area to reach this south coast beach.

In the west giant southerly swells pound the coast line, from the famous breakers at Marrawah to the yet to be discovered point breaks at Trial Harbor and Arlberg Bay that challenge the best.

Along the north coast, Bass Strait generates waves at a string of good beaches - try Tam O’Shanter north-east of Launceston or the gnarly Mersey Mouth at Devonport. In the west, Marrawah’s big Southern Ocean groundswells challenge the best.

Bring your wetsuit - like anywhere else in southern Australia, you’ll need it.

Check out the conditions at some of our local surf beaches.