Bream Creek: it’s how life should be
IT is easy to drive past the tiny coastal town of Bream Creek — if you head along the Arthur Highway from Sorell and blink at Copping, you’ll have missed the turnoff to this idyllic pocket of Tasmania.
Yet when you do find it, you’ll also discover that there is so much more to Bream Creek than its breathtaking first impressions.
If you have a four-wheel drive, it’s worth going the long way around through Kellevie to the Wielangta Forest Road, where you can detour for the view over
Hellfire Bluff and a walk in a relic rainforest.
Turn back and on to Bream Creek Road, where you’ll meander a few kilometres from forest to foothills, farmland to magnificent ocean.
On Marion Bay Beach, you’re likely to find yourself alone to contemplate life with shorebirds and crashing waves. Walk the perfect stretch of white sand or take to the water for a dip or a kite surf.
If you’re visiting on the first Sunday of the month, the Bream Creek Farmers Market sees a meeting of close community, creative minds and fine produce.
Locally made breads and pastries, cheese, meat, award-winning Bream Creek Vineyard Wine, community garden vegetables.
The market is held at the home of the iconic Bream Creek Show, the social event of the year and a beloved day out for families all over Tasmania.
A stone’s throw from the showgrounds is Cape Bernier Vineyard, and its cellar door is open for wine tastings and cheeses produced by their neighbours at Leap Farm and Bream Creek Dairy.
Farm and vineyard tours are also available with Leap
Farm, Tongola and Bream Creek Vineyard Wines.
Just down the road, Hellfire Bluff Distillery is open for tastings and Blue Lagoon Oysters sell fresh oysters direct from their farmgate.
There’s a wide range of accommodation options in Bream Creek, from caravan sites and Airbnb rooms to the rejuvenating comforts of Beachbreaks and the high-end luxury at Marion Bay House.
You can relax surrounded by green pasture, fresh air and clean, deserted beaches.
You’re within half an hour of the Tasman
Peninsula — convict country, sea cliffs and hiking heaven and an hour from MONA, Richmond and Hobart. There is no better place from which to base your Tasmanian explorations.
Bream Creek was discovered by Abel Tasman in 1642 when he spent a few days there.
A 30-minute drive from Hobart Airport, Bream Creek’s signs of life — pure, vibrant, sustainable, beautiful — are everywhere.
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