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FULL LENGTH TOUR DESCRIPTION
Depart the pier for a drive along the Huon Highway to the centre of Huonville, Tasmania's picturesque apple-growing district.  Huon Pine, valuable softwood that was once used to produce furniture and craft items, was discovered in this district and is still grown in some areas today.  A brief stop will be made at the Apple Heritage Museum, a former packing shed where you will have an opportunity during your guided tour to sample an apple that has been freshly-peeled on a vintage 1909 apple-peeling machine. 

Your next stop is at Geeveston, where you will have an opportunity to visit the Forest and Heritage Centre, with its display of forest history, antique woodworking machinery and a large range of local crafts. In the Forest Room, the smell of Tasmanian native timbers permeates and you can see how pioneer timber-getters lived and worked in the bush. There are displays on the different types of forests in Tasmania, the animals that live in them and their modern use from sustainable state forests to protected World Heritage Areas. Enjoy the mini theatre where you have a choice of viewing woodturning and other exciting footage on Tasmania.

Next you visit the Big Tree in the nearby Arve Valley, which has miraculously escaped threat from fire and logging over the years. You continue to Tahune Airwalk where you can experience walking among the treetops past rare species, some found only in Tasmania, such as King Billy and Celery Top pine, myrtle, beech, blackwood and sassafras. The walkway, a steel framework supported by concrete towers and stabilized by steel guy cables, rises up to 48 metres above the ground and extends for half a kilometre over the Tahune State Forest and Picton River. After a BBQ lunch at the Visitor Centre, you travel to the Home Hill Winery (or similar), where you will participate in a wine-tasting overlooking the orderly rows of vines.

Following your tour, you will re-board your coach for the transfer back to Hobart via Franklin, Huonville and the Southern Outlet.  

SHORT LENGTH TOUR DESCRIPTION
This morning you travel to Tasmania's southern forests. A brief stop will be made at the Apple Heritage Museum for a guided tour. Stop en route at Geeveston to visit the Forest and Heritage Centre. Next you visit the Big Tree in the Arve Valley, before continuing on to the renowned Tahune Airwalk. Here you will marvel at the ingenious structure that takes you high into the treetops of the forest to view rate species such as King Billy and Celery Top pines, myrtle, beech, blackwood and sassafrass. Enjoy a BBQ lunch of local produce at the Visitor Centre before heading to Home Hill Winery (or similar), where you will participate in a wine-tasting overlooking the orderly rows of vines. Head back to Hobart via Franklin, Huonville and the Southern Outlet. 

TIMING BREAKDOWN
00:00 Depart shipside
00:30 Arrive at Apple Heritage Museum for a guided tour
01:00 Depart Apple Heritage Museum
01:30 Visit the Forest & Heritage Centre in Geeveston 02:00 Depart Forest & Heritage Centre
02:30 Photo opportunity at Big Tree
02:50 Depart Big Tree
03:15 Tahune Airwalk – treetops walk and lunch
05:15 Depart Tahune Airwalk
06:30 Wine tasting at Home Hill Winery
07:15 Transfer back to the ship
08:00 Arrive back at the ship 

OPERATIONAL NOTES
- Includes shipside collection, touring in air-conditioned coach with professional guide, lunch and all entry fees
- This tour is not suitable for persons with a fear of height
- At lunch each guest may select 3 Salads and 3 Meats from the following:
Salad Selection, Meat Selection, Tossed fresh Garden Salad, BBQ Beef Steak, Fresh Pasta Salad, Marinated Chicken Kebabs, Potato Salad Lamb Steaks, Rice Salad Beef Sausages, Beef Hamburgers. Accompaniments include Sliced Bread, Condiments, Fried Onions, tea, coffee, sweet biscuits and slices
- Activity Level is Moderate

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