Coles Bay is
located on Tasmania's East Coast, 202 kilometres from Hobart,
218 kilometres from Launceston and 315 kilometres from Devonport
which is the arrival point for the Spirit of Tasmania.
Coles Bay was named after Silas Coles (1820 – 1899)
who was a shepherd at Swanwick and who used large middens
in the area to extract lime which he was then able to use
in mortar.
He loved the area and often described its beauty to his
friends when he took his lime across Great Oyster Bay to
Swansea.
The township of Coles Bay started in about 1934 when a retired
auctioneer named Harry Parsons purchased 5 hectares of land
at Coles Bay.
Parsons' purchase became the land for the town - and the
town became a popular haunt for fishermen and bushwalkers.
It was a retreat from modern life - a true escape to a small
community of shanties on the edge of a beautiful bay. 
A rough road was hewn around the coast but most of the building
materials for the town arrived on the SS Koomeela which
made regular journeys across the bay.
These days there is a permanent population of less than
200 serviced by just four main shops (supermarket/petrol
station; bakery; post office; tavern) and Coles Bay is one
of Tasmania's most popular holiday spots for visitors and
locals, attracting approximately 200,000 visitors a year.
Coles Bay sits at the foot of the granite mountains known
as the Hazards, rising over 300 metres straight up.
Nearby Wineglass Bay was voted as one of the top 10 Beaches
in the World by a US magazine together with Friendly Beaches
being rated by the Getaway programme as one of the top 10
beaches in Australia.
Coles Bay's climate is very mild with the town experiencing
more than 300 days of sunshine a year, which actually beats
the number of sunny days on Queensland's Gold Coast!
Today people still come to the area to get away from it
all. They fish in the waters of Great Oyster Bay, which
are still rich in trevally, flathead, crayfish and trumpeter.
They walk into the park and climb the Hazards or the mountains
to the south, both of which offer marvellous views across
the bay and out across the Tasman Sea. And they drive on
the rough roads through the National Park stopping for spectacular
views or pulling off the road to go swimming in the clear,
safe waters of the bay.
Coles Bay was the first township in the world to ban the
use of plastic bags resulting in international acclaim.
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