The Wilderness is Calling... (You're Invited To Answer)

The world feels complicated right now. Travel plans have changed. Costs have climbed. And for a lot of Australians, the idea of heading overseas feels less straightforward than it did a year ago.

But one of the most extraordinary places on Earth hasn't moved. It's right here. And it's calling.

Corinna Wilderness Village is launching a new campaign - The Wilderness is Calling - inviting Australians to rediscover the takayna/Tarkine, one of the last great wild places on the planet.

What the Tarkine is calling you towards

The takayna/Tarkine is the largest cool temperate rainforest in Australia. It covers 450,000 hectares of wild western Tasmania, bounded by the Southern Ocean to the west and the Pieman River to the south. Parts of this forest have never seen fire. Some of the trees growing here have been growing for thousands of years.

Corinna Wilderness Village sits at the southern gateway to all of it. There is no mobile reception. There is no Wi-Fi. There is the river, the rainforest, and the kind of stillness that most people have forgotten exists.

A stay at Corinna is a stay in a restored gold rush settlement - rustic miners' cottages on the banks of the Pieman River, with a restaurant and bar serving Tasmanian produce and wine. You arrive by crossing the Pieman on the Fatman Barge, the only cable-driven vehicular barge in Tasmania, and the wilderness begins before you've even unpacked.

Why now

When overseas travel feels uncertain, the instinct is often to wait. To hold off until things settle. But Tasmania's wild west doesn't reward waiting - it rewards showing up.

April is one of the finest months to visit. The summer crowds have thinned. The air is cooler and the rainforest is shifting into its autumn colours. The fungi season is beginning, bringing an extraordinary display of species found nowhere else on Earth. The Pieman River is calm and dark and reflective in the mornings, and the pademelons are back on the lawns at dusk.

The Arcadia II - the only Huon Pine river cruiser still operating anywhere in the world - is running its full schedule of cruises downstream to Pieman Heads and the wild Southern Ocean coast. Kayaks are available for self-guided paddles to Lovers Falls, a 40-metre waterfall only accessible by water. The walks through the ancient rainforest are open year-round.

There is no bad time to be here. But right now is a very good one.

Answer the call

Corinna is 3 hours 30 minutes from Launceston, 5 hours 20 minutes from Hobart, and 2 hours 25 minutes from Devonport. It is remote enough to feel like a genuine escape and comfortable enough to stay as long as you like.

Rustic wilderness cottages start from $269 per night in the off-peak season. The Tarkine Hotel is open for dinner most evenings in peak season, with Tasmanian wines, fresh local seafood, and a dedicated Tasmanian whiskey bar at the Ahrberg Bar.

The wilderness is calling.

The only question is when you'll answer.

Book your stay at corinna.com.au

About Corinna Wilderness Village

Corinna Wilderness Village is a remote eco-tourism retreat on the banks of the Pieman River in western Tasmania, at the southern edge of the takayna/Tarkine. An historic gold rush settlement restored and operated as a wilderness accommodation, dining, and activity hub, Corinna holds an EarthCheck Assessed sustainability rating and is the only surviving remote area historical mining settlement in Tasmania.