Cedar Cottage Meander

10/09/2026

28/06/2026

Gone fishing. 🐟 🌿

Or rather, Cedar Cottage Meander is temporarily closing for 6 months or so for a break.

Exploring this magical wild isle is on the agenda, along with long overdue renovations.

Join our waitlist to be notified when we’re taking bookings again and have your pick of the dates.

🔗 https://www.cedarcottagemeander.com/waitlist

📷 Natasha Mulhall

06/03/2026

A huge thank you to Urban List for including Cedar Cottage Meander in its Urban List 100: Spotlighting The Local Legends Shaping Aussie Culture In 2026. 🔥

“We’re proud to introduce the inaugural Urban List 100, presented by Uber One Exclusive Tables—a cultural index championing the shapers defining what’s new, the voices influencing what’s next, and the people and ideas driving our cities forward.

Culture in Australia isn’t led by the loudest names or the biggest platforms. It’s shaped quietly, locally, and often without recognition. At Urban List, we’re all about backing real human stories with lasting impact—the quiet achievers showing true grit, gusto and creativity who are propelling culture forward in 2026.”

It comes as a complete surprise and is a real honour.

Check out the full list and cast your vote for People's Choice:
🔗 https://www.theurbanlist.com/a-list/urban-list-100

📷 Natasha Mulhall Photography

08/11/2025

Wild swimming isn’t just a winter thing.

Just minutes away and with spectacular views of World Heritage wilderness, Huntsman Lake sits cradled by high dolerite mountains and lush native forests.

It’s a top spot to cool down in summer. The fly fishing is decent too, with lots of tributaries and inflow from Meander River headwaters.

See if you can spot a white-bellied sea eagle amongst the local mountain currawongs and black cockatoos.

📷 WildBonde Photography

ℹ️ Park at the boat ramp and use the accessible jetty. It's great for kids!

03/11/2025

As the Tasmanian Craft Fair — the largest display of working arts and crafts in the Southern Hemisphere — wraps up in nearby Deloraine, let’s look at some of our talented local artists.

We’re fortunate that many skilled creatives have called this area home. Artists and musicians seem drawn to our phenomenal natural environment, diverse communities, and spectacular landscapes of kooparoona niara / Great Western Tiers.

We have two exquisitely stitched artworks hanging in the cottage.

Sewn freestyle, they depict temperate rainforest growing nearby. Silk and cotton thread, often hand dyed from leaves and bark, is used to sew the texture of moss, roots and foliage.

These artworks are part of the 5000 Trees Project created by award-winning Tasmanian textile artist Cindy Watkins, whose work is informed by native trees, local wilderness and wild places.

Late leather artist Garry Greenwood, late legendary loom-master Jim Deghand and renowned painter Tony Smibert AM are all artists that, like Cindy, chose this beautiful part of Tasmania to call home.

All rose to international acclaim from the leafy depths of this quiet corner of Tassie, with artwork in the National Gallery of Australia and in public and private collections around the world.

📷 Natasha Mulhall Photography

🎨 Cindy Watkins The Textile Artist
🎨 Tony Smibert: https://www.smibert.com
🎨 Garry Greenwood
🎨 Vale "Jim The Weaver" Deghand: https://delorainecreativestudios.com.au/?page_id=1708

01/11/2025

Veg Mahal is responding happily to the warmth with raspberries, heritage thornless blackberries, strawberries, blueberries, gooseberries, and red and black currants busily producing new growth for a summer berry bounty.

Pull up a chair on the verandah and enjoy fresh organic berries with pancakes as the forest birds sing and bees, languid and laden with pollen, drone lazily by.

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Pick your own berries or graze directly from the garden.

Nothing beats a perfectly plump strawberry sweetened by sunshine.

📷 Natasha Mulhall Photography

20/10/2025

A vase of spring cheer to brighten up this blustery Monday.

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📷 Natasha Mulhall Photography

18/10/2025

Sunset gazing and forest bathing. Dark skies unlocked.

Will the aurora steal the show?

If you're lucky, you might glimpse the celestial magic of the southern lights from the best seat in town.

📷 Natasha Mulhall Photography

13/10/2025

In Memoriam

Moya Costello
1952 – 2025 🌸

Moya has been an integral part of Cedar Cottage Meander since its inception and my beloved other mother for 46 years.

A gifted Australian writer and academic, Moya left this world a kinder, more beautiful place.

It was her gentle and patient presence that nurtured the clematis that curls around the verandah; its fine ballet-slipper pink blossoms as delicate as her prose, its endurance through harsh winters a testament to her strength.

Fragility and fortitude, coexisting and fundamental, impermanent always.

These interrelationships are mutual and abiding.

And like the world, I am left better for her being.

📷 Natasha Mulhall Photography

10/10/2025

The secret’s out.

We know we have world-class produce, seafood and spirits, and now you do too.

Gordon Ramsay recently praised Tasmania as a favourite culinary destination and crowned our cuisine the best in the world.

Alongside our top-notch food, we have innovative chefs, skilled artisans and makers, creative and tight-knit communities, and down-to-earth locals who are always up for a chat.

Pick fresh berries, herbs and veggies from our organic garden, visit the many excellent producers and markets nearby, and cook up a storm in our chef’s kitchen.

For something a bit different, try open fire cooking and connect with the elements. We provide cast iron cookware, leather fire gloves and tools.

You’ll have everything you need to make the most of our world-class ingredients.

There’s a lot of flavour, heart and soul packed into our tiny island state.

Come visit and experience it for yourself.

📷 Natasha Mulhall Photography