Wineglass Bay

What an incredible place! Absolutely breathtaking - quite literally with the walk down, but I cannot recommend making the trek enough. Such a beautiful part of the world, we sat in the beach for ages just taking in the views. Can’t imagine how gorgeous it would be in summer with warmer weather! Absolutely worth the walk

Even in a place that makes tourism as easy and enjoyable as Australia, Tasmania stands out. The bush camping we did here was unforgettable, not least because a wallaby stole a banana from under my nose. I could have spent a week just in Freycinet National Park, but alas we are but cogs in the machine and time is scarce. Anybody coming to Tassie as a tourist is depriving themselves if they skip out on visiting this park.

Lovely Bushwalking, swimming/surfing and or surfing location with nice but expensive accommodation. ️Beware whilst bushwalking to check with park rangers before heading on a long bushwalk or remote bushwalk, always carry enough food/water.

Here are your options for seeing Wineglass Bay
1. Lookout. A 45 minute hike from the car park up a reasonably steep hill to the lookout, Views from here are very good, and there are lot of viewing platforms so you can get the perfect shot even with crowds around. But note, there’s no water or toilets after you leave the car park. About 90 minutes round trip, but, if possible, choose good weather. If the sun’s not shining there’s no white sand or blue/green sea and it’s not half as impressive. But, if it’s too hot, this is a tough hike as there’s not a lot of shade.
2. Mt Amos. All those classic pictures of Wineglass Bay come from here. The lookout is good, but the true view only comes from Mt Amos and it’s a very tough walk, sometimes involving a rock scramble, and will be beyond most people.
3. Lookout and walk to the beach. From the lookout it’s a half hour walk down a 1,000 stairs. It’s tough. But doable, and at the bottom there are now compost toilets. The rocks here are lovely, and you can swim at the beach. But you then have to get back. You can walk back up the staircase or, complete the circuit across the isthmus to Hazards, which is an even better, and safer beach, absolutely stunning, and then complete the walk back to the carpark. But this is about 2 hours of pretty boring, hot, exposed tea tree and rock.
4. Water Taxi or tour. These go to Hazards, then there’s a short mostly flat walk across the isthmus to Wineglass Bay, which anyone can do. From there either take the water taxi back, or walk up the staircase to the lookout. (You could do this in reverse, but would have to make sure you timed your arrival at Hazards with the water taxi)

Ranked and totally agree that it is one of the best beach's in Australia if not the world -and everyone has to add as a "MUST VISIT" List - Breathtaking view's, clear crystal waters but best way to see it one way is the flying tour's over it by helicopter far easier on the knee's than the slow scenic but beautiful walk up and down the stair walk path.

The walk to the lookout point is easy and quick but the view is quite far away. It’s also easy to get down to the bay itself but it doesn’t look as amazing up-close - looks like any other beautiful but rough beach on the Australian coast. However we did stop here and have lunch at waved at the Wineglass Bay Cruise which also stops there for lunch.

A really pretty place.
A challenging track rock hopping to get down there.
Take water and a snack it's hard going.
Beautiful white sand and crystal clear water.
A half hearted attempt to swim but a bit of an undertow was a worry.
Worth the effort to get down to the beach though.