Tahune Airwalk & Hastings Cave

Walk 40m high amongst the treetops at the Tahune Forest Airwalk. Walk underground into Australia's largest tourist Dolomite cave on a guided cave tour with National Parks staff. Bring your swim gear for a dip in the Thermal Springs Pool in a beautiful setting amid the forest surrounds. This is a spectacular day travelling through Tasmania's Southern Forests. We stop along the way for some short walks and beautiful lookouts, this is a brand new tour for us, it is a big day out and a lot of fun, we love this trip!

Tahune Air Walk

The Tahune AirWalk is an exhilarating nature-based experience set in one of Tasmania's most world-renowned forests, the Tahune Forest Reserve. One of the most visited Tasmanian attractions, the AirWalk offers spectacular views of the state's famous Southern Forests.

The AirWalk is a walkway that takes you on a journey through the treetops in this stunning wet eucalypt forest. Extending for 597m through the forest, the Tahune AirWalk is elevated high above the ground, giving you a bird's-eye view of the beautiful tree species and forest life

Tour magical chambers of flowstones and shawls, then relax in a thermal pool.

Hastings Caves in Tasmania include Newdegate Cave, the largest tourism cave in Australia.

The Tasmania Parks and Wildlife Service conducts 45-minute tours through Newdegate's large, highly decorated cavern. Formations in the cave are spectacular and include flowstone, stalactites, columns, shawls, straws, stalagmites and the unusual helictites - tendrils of calcite that grow in all directions in tiny filaments.

The caves of this region started to form approximately 40 million years ago and remained unseen until 1917, when timber workers discovered an entrance. They named their magnificent find after the governor of the time, Sir Francis Newdegate.

Newdegate Cave is spacious and well lit, with no narrow passages. There are around 240 stairs but these are traversed in small sections. It is one of the few caves in Australia to have formed in dolomite, which is harder and heavier than limestone. (Dolomite is characterised by pearly white and pinkish crystal, and should not be confused with that famous Tasmanian rock, dolerite, which weathers into tall grey flutes such as those you see on Mt Wellington and Cradle Mountain.) The underground temperate is naturally maintained at nine degrees Celsius (48 degrees Fahrenheit) all year round.

The thermal poolis surrounded by forest and ferns and has a large picnic area equipped with change rooms, showers and toilets, electric barbecues, shelters and forest walks. The pool is fed from a spring that supplies spring water at around 28 degrees Celsius (82.5 degrees Fahrenheit) all year round. It is hygienically controlled and has a paddling pool for children.

A walk along the Hot Springs Track will take you to the convergence of two streams. If you put your hand in the water here, you'll be able to feel the warm current from one stream meeting the cold current from the other.