Tasmania cycling holiday

Being constantly alert to the possibility of wildlife crossing the roads, we are forever conscious of the rise in the extinction rate of local native animals due to road mortality. Equally at risk of becoming extinct is some of the states wilderness. Tasmania is home to some of the world’s most unique flora and fauna with much of it listed as ‘Threatened Species’. These are just two reasons why most of Tasmania is a protected area.

As many of our locations are small towns we rely mainly on the hospitality of locally owned business to provide both our accommodation and meals. The hotels are mostly boutique style such as Swansea House and Central Highlands Lodge, allowing us to accommodate only a certain number (generally no more than 15). This also allows for an ease of travel on the roads that comes only with moving in a smaller group. Each towns local produce provider supplies our picnic lunches allowing for fresh produce each day. Many of our picnic lunches are enjoyed in scenic locations en route to our next location. Being forever mindful of collecting all rubbish and leaving our picnic ground as we expect to find it, we dispose of our rubbish at our destination and where possible offer recyclable items to the hotel for proper disposal.

The best way we know how to ensure our company approach to responsible travel is exercised throughout each tour is to have the owners of the company guide you personally. We encourage you before and throughout the tour to treat the State of Tasmania as you would your own home, providing you with ‘Responsible Travel Tips’ prior to our tour departure. These may range from something as simple as perhaps bringing enough cycle clothing to ensure you are able to do an ‘economy’ wash rather than wash every day, thus reducing our water usage to refraining from feeding local wildlife.

When we are not on tour, we continue to practice our responsible approach to the environment. We recycle and use environmentally friendly products wherever possible such as our cleaning products, energy efficient light bulbs and recycle all rubbish.

As a community initiative, we have raised sponsorship funds to invest in a quantity of bicycles and bicycle related equipment and now offer a cycling programme to our local youth. The equipment and expertise of our coaches are offered free of charge in an attempt to promote cycling to our local youth so that they may learn about a whole different side of cycling they didn’t know existed.