George Town - Surroundings

George Town lies in a fruit-growing area (particularly strawberries and apples). There are boat trips to the islands of the Furneaux group (Flinders Island).

On Low Head, 5km north of George Town, are both a good surfing beach and a sheltered bathing beach.

20km east of George Town are the ruins of the gold-mining town of Lefroy, which flourished around 1870.

A few kilometers south of George Town is the industrial port of Bell Bay, which has recently gained added importance as the destination of the fast catamaran service from Victoria over the Bass Strait (the Sea Cat, a rival to the Abel Tasman).