King Island Guides Attractions Events in Tasmania

King Island Dairy, on King Island in Bass Strait, is one of Australia's most famous cheese producers. King Island marks the western edge of Bass Strait, 80 kilometres north west of Tasmania and south of Cape Otway, Victoria.
King Island Dairy produces high quality, French-style camembert, brie and blue cheeses, along with traditional cheddars, hard cheeses, yoghurt and delectable, thick clotted cream. Multi-award winning cheeses are created here from milk produced by the Island’s 25 dairy farms and 7,500 dairy cows. You can visit the Fromagerie to sample the King Island range of products and see cheeses maturing in the cellar. In 2002, King Island Dairies celebrated 100 years of dairying, making it one of Australia’s oldest cheese producers.
King Island was first sighted in 1797 by Captain William Campbell, and was proclaimed a separate state in 1825. The Island’s location, in the path of the Roaring Forty winds, resulted in hundreds of shipwrecks along its coastline during the 19th century. Local legend has it that straw mattresses from the wrecks contained grass seeds that floated ashore and propagated in the island’s rich soil, resulting in a unique variety of grass on which the dairy cows of King Island graze.

King Island Golf and Bowling Club is located at Currie, on King Island’s west coast. King Island is 80 kilometres/50 miles north east of Tasmania—a 50 minute flight north west of Wynyard and an hour and twenty minutes from Devonport.
The Club’s nine-hole course—which has been compared to St Andrew's of Scotland—is an authentic coastal links with undulating fairways. This challenging course has fantastic ocean views and is completely open to the elements, with west winds affecting almost every hole. Highlights include the third, par three hole which is played from a cliff top towards the sea, and the testing fifth hole, which requires a long hit to clear water skirting the fairway.
You can follow your round with a well-earned drink and a tasty meal in the licensed club house. Guides, clubs and buggy hire are all available and the Club also has bowling greens and squash courts.
The two-day King Island Open, held here each November, attracts over 100 golfers from across Australia. The Open includes 18-hole and 36-hole events for ladies and men as well as a 36-hole junior handicap event.
Holes: 9, Par: 72, Length: 5,465 metres, Australian Course Rating: 67.9