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BWT2 | Sheffield In Colour | 6.50 hrs
Take a coastal drive to some of the most beautiful lookout points of North West Tasmania and see the unique town of Sheffield - the town of murals.
BWT-4 | Chefs Tour of the Cradle Mountain Valley | 6.50 hrs
Breathtaking scenery - see Tasmanian wildlife, three local towns and behind the scenes of some of the worlds most expensive food products all grown locally here in Tasmanias North West coast.
Burnie is a port city on the north-west coast of Tasmania, originally settled in 1827 as Emu Bay. The (then) town was renamed for William Burnie - a director of the Van Diemen's Land Company - in the early 1840s. Its a picturesque port city of some 20,000 people.
The Burnie port is the fifth largest container port in Australia and along with the forestry industry, provide the main source of revenue for the city.
It became the main port for the west coast mines after the opening of the Emu Bay Railway in 1897. Most industry in Burnie was based around the railway and the port that served it. The influence of forestry had a major role on Burnies development in the 1900s with the founding of the Burnie Paper Mill in 1938 and the woodchip terminal in the later part of the century.
The average temperature in summer ranges from 12 to 21c with drier days as warm as 30c, with around 16 hours of sunlight per day. In winter, temperature ranges from 6 to 13c, and only 8 hours of sunlight. Relative humidity averages over 60% for the year in the afternoon. The city averages 994 mm of rainfall per year, with most of the rain in the cooler months from May to October. The summer months bring constant daily sunshine and only occasional rainfall with temperatures up to 30c. Nearly every day from January to March has a maximum temperature of 20-25c.
How far is it to walk into Burnie town centre from the ship?
Its only a few hundred meters from the cruise berth to the city centre and the ship/port organise shuttle buses to the meeting point. The designated meeting point for cruise passengers is the Makers Workshops in Burnie (this is closed but it is still the meeting point), where all cruise ship passengers disembark from the shuttle buses. You are not able to walk from the port due to port restrictions.
