Aqua Grill Café - Franklin

Great portion of food for the price, a little over battered with the calamari.

We enjoyed an amazing flathead squid lunch. Value for money, the lightest batter we have ever tasted, salad chips completed this meal. Great service, thanks guys, great food.

Very interesting and well worth taking the time and spending the money on the tour. Our guide Graham was very interesting and we were very glad we visited.

Here you can take a one and half hour boat trip serving with wine or coffee while enjoying the lake breeze. Even just walk along the lake is enjoyable.

Anyone interested in wooden boats, boat building, woodcraft, rope and rigging skills, boat repair and maintenance techniques, as well as the history and long association of boats and shipping in coastal Tasmania will be fascinated and informed by a visit here. The rugged topography and limited road access has driven the farmers and fishermen of the Huon valley, D'Entrecasteau Channel and Bruny Island areas of south-east Tas to utilse marine transport. The serendipitous access to some of the world's most suitable timbers has fostered boat-building and maintenance in this region. Huon pine, King Billy and Celery-top pine and the many hardwoods of Eucalyptus Regnans species have been used to best advantage, and the tutors at the Wooden Boat and Living Boat trust are skilled and experienced craftsmen who are also capable and effective communicators. People retiring to this area of affordable real estate, fresh foods, fresh air and new opportunity are still relatively young and vigorous, with a thirst for learning new skills, so that a three- or six-month course may open up a new, active and enduring interests in traditional handicrafts. These skills are the more enriching for the history and traditions they embody. All of these factors have made the Living Boat and Wooden Boat centre thrive. Long may it continue to do so!