Tasmania in 14 Nights on Coral Discoverer

An island national park off Tasmania’s east coast, with no cars: wombats grazing by the convict ruins of Darlington, the Painted Cliffs and forester kangaroos.

Pink granite peaks, white sand and the perfect curve of Wineglass Bay, on Tasmania’s east coast. Walk up to the lookout or land on the beach itself.

The largest island in the Furneaux Group in Bass Strait: granite peaks, empty beaches and Wybalenna, a sad and important place in Tasmanian Aboriginal history.

A cluster of granite islands in Bass Strait, a marine national park with fur seals and an old lighthouse keepers’ station on Deal Island.

Tasmania’s second city, at the head of the Tamar River: Cataract Gorge a walk from town, and the Tamar Valley vineyards along the river.

A heritage village on Tasmania’s north-west coast beneath the Nut, a flat-topped volcanic plug with a chairlift and views along the coast.

In Bass Strait, famous for its cheese, beef and kelp, with shipwreck coasts and some of the cleanest air on earth.

A day along Tasmania’s wild west coast, among the most remote shores in Australia, seen from the deck.

In the south-west wilderness, reachable only by sea or small plane: Bathurst Harbour’s tannin-dark water under quartzite peaks, and almost no one else there.

South of Hobart, with sea cliffs, white wallabies and Adventure Bay, where Cook and Bligh both anchored. Cheese, oysters and fudge on the island, and fur seals off the Friars.

South-east of Hobart: the highest sea cliffs in Australia at Cape Hauy and Cape Pillar, Tasman Arch, the Devils Kitchen and the convict ruins at Port Arthur.