Cruise Ship Excursions & Tours is a specialist in the operation of fantastic Tasmanian Shore Excursions. With over 20 years of industry experience coming together - we can't wait to greet you.
• Experience Tasmania's convict history by walking where they did, learn their stories & experience the harsh realities of convict life.
• Take a fully guided walk around Port Arthur while listing to one of the sites fantastic guides. Listen to the history & get the answers to questions that you may have.
• Take the harbour cruise out around Deadman's Island & learn about the grave sites, young boys prison, watermark line, & the shipbuilding industry that existed onsite.
• Travel in luxury appointed coaches that have been designed for your comfort & relaxation while experiencing the best that Tasmania can offer its guests.
• Listen to stories, little known secrets, interesting history from our Destination Expert guides. They practice every morning (seriously!!)
ItineraryThis is a typical itinerary for this product
Stop At: Port Arthur Historic Site, Arthur Highway, Port Arthur, Tasmania 7182 Australia
Port Arthur Historic Site. Over its long history, Port Arthur has been a place of hardship and punishment, a place of opportunity, and a place of leisure. Now it is one of Australia’s most important heritage destinations, where the story of Australia’s colonial history is written in stone and brick. Well when you have a reference quote as ‘a machine to grind rogues honest’ that’s not going to end well for the people that were sent there. You will get the chance to read & learn the stories of some of the people who have passed through this place, walk where their stories unfolded, and learn about Port Arthur’s evolution from a feared convict settlement to a World Heritage-listed Historic Site.
The Port Arthur penal settlement began life as a small timber station in 1830 and quickly grew in importance within the colonies. Ship building was introduced on a large scale to Port Arthur as a way of providing selected convicts with a useful skill they could take with them once freed. You can see where the boats were built while on the harbour cruise, with many of the best ships of the time coming from these docks. Port Arthur Historic Site is a large site holding a great many stories.
Duration: 3 hours
Stop At: Tessellated Pavement, 380 Pirates Bay Dr, Eaglehawk Neck TAS 7179, Australia
The Tessellated Pavement is something that is unique in the world. The strand connecting the Tasman Peninsula to the rest of Tasmania is covered in a pattern of regular rectangular saltwater pools. Although these depressions look distinctly manmade, they are the result of a rare type of natural erosion. It is a phenomenon that only happens in a few places worldwide. It has a mosaic like formation where the saltwater has eroded the rock to form these small crater-like squares, hence forming a ‘mosaic’ like pattern, in reference to the Roman mosaic floors that were common in the era that they would have formed.
Duration: 30 minutes
