Weldborough - Places to See

Weldborough Hotel
The heritage listed Weldborough Hotel, originally built in 1886 and previously known as the All Nations Hotel, is situated in the picturesque rainforest of the northeast of Tasmania. Check out: http://www.weldborough.com.au/new/ for more information. The hotel was mostly burnt down in 1928 and rebuilt by the then owner Maurice Russell.The area is perfect for bushwalking, fishing, mountain cycling, off road biking and driving.

Weldborough Pass
A few kilometres to the east of Weldborough is one of the most spectacular fern displays that you will see anywhere in Australia. For kilometres beside the road huge ferns are on either side of the road. They are interspersed with stands of blackwood, sassafras and myrtle. This is Weldborough Pass which rises 595 m and offers excellent views on either side of the road and the range.

The Chinese section of the Moorina Cemetery
10 km west of Derby on the Tasman Highway is the tiny settlement of Moorina. Once known as 'Krushkas Bridge' (after the Krushka brothers who settled in the area and opened the Derby mine) it was renamed Moorina, after Truganini's sister. Moorina was originally a tin mining centre. It now has a virtually non-existent population. The only interesting landmark in the town is the solitary Chinese headstone and small 'oven' in the cemetery (turn off the main road - it is clearly signposted) which recall the fact that in the late nineteenth century hundreds of Chinese arrived in the area to work in the tin mines.