Rocky Cape National Park

Rocky Cape National Park is full of surprises. You may only want to make a quick visit to the Rocky Cape lighthouse, with its sweeping views, but can you resist exploring that dramatic cave in the nearby cliffs?

Before you know it you're finding out there's more to this park than meets the eye. Aboriginal heritage, ship wrecks, rock formations turned sideways, beautiful hills running down to the sea and an incredible variety of flowering plants. It makes the many corners of this small park worth closer inspection.

The park encompasses a variety if vegetation in it's range from the coast to the hinterland. Coastal heathlands of wind-dwarfed wattle and she-oak, peppered with wildflowers such as purple iris, yellow guinea-flower, white-flowering tea tree, pink and white epacris, boronia, the spectacular Christmas bell and Xanthorrhoea, with its grass-like skirt and tall flower spike, is also very common throughout the park.

Gullies on the south and east facing slopes, such as those around Doone Falls, hide small clumps of forest containing eucalypt, wattle, paperbark and banksia, as well as plants more commonly found in wet forests. Though common on the Australian mainland, the stand of saw banksia in the hills overlooking Sisters Beach is one of few in Tasmania.