Backpackers

"This is it...backpacker heaven"

"...one of Tasmania's finest backpackers" LONELY PLANET '04

Choose a book from our library and relax in front of a logfire. Put on your walking boots and explore the beautiful private forest reserve. Swim from the pontoon, or hire a fishing rod. Explore some of the nearby tracks, ranging from easy to expert, by mountainbike.
Or visit some of the many natural attractions surrounding us here in Tasmania's Far South.

Our backpackers on the waterfront, offers doubles, and 6 bed "bunkstyle" dormitory rooms, commercial kitchen, separate lounge (the 'Olegas Truchanas Lodge') and a spacious and well equipped BBQ area.
 Backpacker Accommodation Costs: (per night)
Doubles
$75
Dorms
$25

To compliment our backpackers, we offer the fully self-contained, partially-serviced Wilderness Lodge. Contemporary and private, with 2 spacious doubles, 2 bathrooms, and 6 singles upstairs:

Self-Contained Lodge Accommodation Costs: (per night)

Doubles
$80
Dorms
$30
Exclusive Use – Entire lodge
$300

Far South is the ideal base camp to the World Heritage Area, Hartz Mountain, Adamson's Peak, Hastings Caves & Thermal Pool, the Southcoast track, and South Cape, Australia's Southern-most point.






© Copyright 2008. Owned and operated by The Friends' School