Bit of a hike

The Shot Tower at Taroona is a historic building shot tower between Hobart and Kingston, Tasmania. It was designed and built by Joseph Moir in 1870 in only eight months. One of only three remaining shot towers in Australia, it is incorrectly alleged to be the tallest remaining shot tower in the world and the tallest ever built in the Southern Hemisphere, which is disputed by the Clifton Hill Shot Tower.

Blackmans Bay is a beachside suburb of Hobart, Tasmania, Australia.Blackmans Bay south of Hobart was named after a James Blackman who occupied land there in the 1820s while another "Blackman Bay", near Dunalley (also in Tasmania) was so named in 1642 because of the presence of Aboriginal people.The town is located adjacent to Kingston, and is approximately fourteen kilometres south of Hobart.

Bonnet Hill is a suburb of the greater Hobart area, capital of Tasmania, Australia on the hill of the same name, overlooking Kingston. Bonnet Hill is a popular cycling route. Located on it is the famous Shot Tower. The sides of the hill are riddled with small paths mostly leading to the nearby Kingston Beach.

Fahan School is an independent, day and boarding school located in Sandy Bay, a suburb of Hobart, Tasmania, Australia. It is a non-denominational school with a Christian ethos.The School was established in 1935 by Isobel Travers and Audrey Morphett as Fahan Presbyterian Girls' College. The school was named after the village of Fahan (pronounced 'Fawn') in Inishowen in County Donegal in Ulster, Ireland.

Channel Court is a sub regional shopping centre located on the Channel Highway, Kingston, Tasmania. For many years the shopping centre was considered very small but adequate to the needs of the local population. However, since being purchased by the Behrakis Group in June 2004 the centre has undergone a complete transformation to cope with the influx of mainlanders and their traffic.

Kingston Beach is a suburb of the greater Hobart area, capital of Tasmania, Australia. It is located on the Derwent River at the mouth of Browns Rivulet. It was originally known as Browns River Beach in the 1850s. Kingston Beach was a regularly photographed location in the twentieth century. The beach is patrolled by Kingston Beach Surf Life Saving Club between the months of December and April.

Taroona (an Aboriginal word meaning sea-shell, specifically that of a 'Chiton') is a major residential suburb approximately 15 minutes drive from the centre of Hobart, Tasmania on the scenic route between Hobart and Kingston. Although on the edges of the City of Hobart, Taroona is actually part of the municipality of Kingborough.

The Wrest Point Hotel Casino was Australia's first legal casino, opening in the suburb of Sandy Bay in Hobart, Tasmania, on 10 February 1973.

St Aloysius Catholic College is an independent Roman Catholic co-educational primary and secondary day school with campuses in Kingston Beach and Huntingfield, in southern Tasmania. The College provides education for children from Kindergarten to Year 4 at the Kingston Beach campus and Year 5 to Year 10 at the Huntingfield campus.

Taroona High School is a co-educational state high school located in Taroona, a southern riverside suburb of greater Hobart, the capital of the island state Tasmania. The school has approximately 1,100 students in grades 7 to 10. In 2003 Taroona High School underwent a major redevelopment. The school caters for students in the southern suburbs of Hobart such as Taroona, Dynnyrne and Sandy Bay but students also come from a wide range of other areas such as West Hobart and Blackmans Bay.