Things to see & Do

The Experience

Bring your sketching tools, the latest book to read in the conservatory, and the field binoculars for the extensive bird wildlife including regular visits from the local wedgetailed eagles. Buttons Cottage and Gaunts Homestead are separated by the ever changing and cascading Castra Rivulet just minutes from your door as well as a number of enchanting downstream waterfalls - Silver & Step Falls.

The four season's weather is a treat with long summer evenings and wonderful winter mornings fit for the photographer's tools of trade capturing the vivid blues and greens. Spring brings the welcome of new life and hope with baby lambs and calves. Listen to the bulls roar or watch the industrious birdlife through the eyes of the wrens and swallows who return annually from their international pilgrimage.
Reflect on the bridges and ponder the wonder of it all. Whatever season chosen to visit there are many enriching and challenging experiences offered at Button's Cottage, the region and Tasmania.

Local Walks around Gaunts

There are a number of waterfalls within close proximity to buttons cottage. Varying in time from ten minutes at the end of the garden to three hours. The best times to view these are from late autumn, through winter, and into late spring when rainfall is at its most plentiful. Keep an eye out for the elusive platypus lurking in the waterways.

Fishing

Throughout the farm there are numerous secluded fishing locations to wet your line. All of the fishing locations have fresh running water through them all year round. Imagine catching a fresh rainbow trout to BBQ for dinner at sunset.

Extended Walks

Leven Canyon

Within 15 minutes drive from Buttons Cottage, the Leven Canyon is well worth the drive and not for the faint hearted. A short 15 minute walk will take you to the height of the cliff face exposing you to some inspiring views. If your after something more, climb down the 800+ steps to the floor of the canyon on the round trip back to the carpark to gain some more perspective.

Penguin to Cradle Trail

Boasts some of the most magnificent, diverse and extreme panoramas. Starting from the beach and winding your way up through the Leven Canyon to Cradle Mountain you leave views of the majestic coastline. This 7 day bushwalk can be taken in a series of day walks or in one big trek from the sea to the tallest mountains in the state, more information.

Black Bluff

This 8 hour day walk takes you to the beginning of the Tasmanian Highlands and is the source of the Leven River. Climbing up to a height of 1339m above sea level the view from the peak stretches all the way north to the coast line and as far south as the Cradle Mountain range.

Cradle Mountain

Within 1 hours drive from Buttons Cottage, Cradle Mountain offers a range of tourist attractions and is one of Tasmania’s premier tourist destinations. Go and have a devilish experience at the wildlife sanctuary and learn the truth about the Tasmanian Devil, for more information go to http://www.devilsatcradle.com.

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