Quamby Estate’s original buildings include the granary, machinery shed and shearing shed, all reminders of the history of this once working agricultural estate. The wonderful old Georgian stables have been converted to house the walking base for our Cradle Mountain Huts and Bay of Fires walks. From here, the daily walks depart and return, making a stay at Quamby Homestead a convenient option.

Quamby is also an excellent base for exploring the surrounding areas of Launceston and the Tamar Valley. Here is just a selection of the varied experiences available within a short drive:

• Learn the art of fly fishing
• Take a Cliffs and Cave Tour - from the Alum Cliffs to the Marakoopa Caves
• Explore the vineyards of the Tamar Valley Wine Route
• Uncover treasures in the art & crafts and antique shops of Deloraine and Westbury
• Enjoy a walk through the cool, temperate rainforest of Liffey Falls State Reserve
• Ride the world’s longest single-span chairlift at Cataract Gorge in Launceston
• Taste honey at the Tasmanian Honey Company in Perth
• Experience another example of Tasmania’s heritage and the National Rose Garden at Woolmers Estate in Longford

RiverFly Tasmania – available from Quamby Estate

Whilst staying at Quamby Estate, in the heart of Tasmania’s famous wild trout fishery, spend one, two, or three days with well-known guide Daniel Hackett and his team at RiverFly Tasmania. Daniel and his team will be your guides as you stalk brown and rainbow trout among the famous Tasmanian midland streams, or along more remote rivers and tarns of Tasmania’s wilderness and World Heritage Areas. Venues include Brumby’s Creek, South and North Esk rivers, St Patricks River, Mersey River, the wilderness Western Lakes and all the creeks and springs in between.

If you are still learning the art of fly fishing, spend a tuition day with the RiverFly team while enjoying the full river-based experience, and Tasmania’s great rural and wilderness areas.

More proficient? Why not extend your stay at Quamby Estate and book in with RiverFly for one of their Three Rivers Packages™ - Three Days, Three Rivers, Three Experiences.

All RiverFly trips are inclusive of transport, use of all equipment including the legendary Sage fly rods, and gourmet morning tea and lunches. Prices do not include an Inland Fishing Licence, which start at $14

Prices:
Tasmanian fly fishing ‘taster’ day (9am pickup, 4.45pm return):
$325 pp for two anglers
$580 for one angler

Standard day rates (typical day is 8.30am pickup, 6-7pm return)
$375 pp for two anglers
$620 for one angler

Three Rivers Package (3 days)
$1125 pp for two anglers
$1860 for one angler

Daniel’s coffee-table book ‘In Season Tasmania – A Year of Fly Fishing Highlights’ is available from Quamby Estate during your stay




Cliffs and Cave Tour ™ - available from Quamby Estate

Discovered more than 100 years ago by two mischievous boys armed only with candles and adventurous spirits, the Marakoopa caves are now one of Australia’s best guided cave tours. Featuring disappearing creeks, amphitheatres of stalactite formations, and gardens of growing stalagmites, the Marakoopa cave tour is also home to the largest display of glow worms in Australia. During this premium cave tour you will have the cave and tour-guide to yourselves, leaving you to thoroughly absorb the atmosphere and wonders of this hidden jewel, at your own pace.

After a gourmet lunch among the temperate rainforest, your guide will then take you to one of the best look-outs in Tasmania – the Alum Cliffs. Following an easy 30 minute walk through sclerophyll forest, you’ll find yourself looking over the Mersey River as it winds it’s way through the deep dolerite and limestone gorge that forms part the Gog Range. 

Tour departs at 10am, and arrives back at Quamby Estate at approximately 3pm.

Cost $275pp, minimum 2 persons.
Cost is inclusive of gourmet lunches, pick-up and drop-off from Quamby Estate, and a personal guide through Marakoopa Caves.

Tour operated by RiverFly Tasmania, who also run fly fishing tours among Tasmania’s famous rivers and lakes.