Black Bluff View Retreat is a very comfortable, warm and sunny five bedroom house in the middle of 40 beautiful hectares of Tasmanian bush. It has outstanding views of Black Bluff and the Dial Range. Wildlife abounds and the property has resident echidnas, possums, wallabies, wedge tail eagles, grey goshawks, wrens and swallows. There are a multitude of walks on the property and the Leven River is a short 20 minute walk away with private swimming possible. The house has a full range of amenities (cooking, washing etc) and has a high quality audio-visual system for watching movies and TV and listening to music. BBVR has three large bedrooms with queen size beds and two bedrooms with single beds. There are two and a half bathrooms and three toilets. One of the bathrooms has a bath. Printing facilities are available for use and there are two separate sunny living areas. The views from the deck with a large BBQ are world class. This area is equipped with outdoor furniture. Black Bluff View Retreat is central to Cradle Mt, Tarkine rainforests, Leven Canyon, the caves and wildlife parks at Gunns Plains, beaches and beautiful coastal towns.

Your host Basil is a former teacher and now operates a nature based tourism operation called Rare Earth Tasmania. Basil grew up in the area and is passionate about Tasmania and the NW coast, particularly its wild and world class landscapes like the Tarkine rainforests. Basil offers small one day fully guided tours and makes these exclusively available to guests staying at Black Bluff View Retreat. The day tours include trips to the Cradle Mountain, Narawntapu NP, rarely visited Tarkine rainforests and waterfalls, world class Fossil Bluff, Rocky Cape NP, Leven Canyon, Stanley or a trip of your choice. More information about the tours is available on the Rare Earth Tasmania website. Basil and his wife Angela bought Black Bluff View Retreat in 1984, raised two children Claire and Thomas there and moved to the seaside town of Turners Beach in 2018.

So much to see and do. You could easily spend a week in this area. Black Bluff View Retreat is within 90 minutes drive of Cradle Mountain, the waterfalls and rainforests of the Tarkine and close to Leven Canyon, Gunns Plains and the coastal towns of Ulverstone, Penguin and Turners Beach. There are lots of dining and coffee options with abundant local produce grown in some of the best soil on the planet. There are many beaches within a 15 minute drive, including at Ulverstone and Turners Beach. The Dial Range runs adjacent to BBVR to the west and has world class walks and newly developed mountain bike trails. Ulverstone has an exceptional range of recreational facilities including golf, tennis, bowls, sailing and cycling. A shared walking/biking pathway runs for many kilometres along the coast. Ulverstone has excellent facilities for children with playgrounds, beaches, a newly built bike and skate part and a planetarium. Goat Island is a terrific place to take the kids to play pirates in the secluded caves. Basil has left an information sheet about the region on the Rare Earth Tasmania website and on display at Black Bluff View Retreat.