Best camping beach
Cockle Creek is the best beach for camping in the south of Tasmania. Lime Bay is also worth a look.
Best family beach
Bellerive Beach. A great beach and fun park combined with excellent facilities including BBQ areas. This is an ideal location for kids and birthday parties and caters well for people with disabilities.
Best isolated beach near Hobart
Hope Beach: On South Arm Road, this beach has great sand dunes and an incredible beach that is usually free of other people. It often has good surf. For a potentially wild and open beach not far from Hobart, this is it.
Best nature reserve
Looking for a protected beach with bird life and interesting foreshore – Gorringes has it all.
Best patrolled beach
Clifton Beach. Consistent surf and regularly patrolled – great to learn surfing or having fun on a boogie board.