NewcastleActivities

Activities in Newcastle

  1. This Is Not Art Festival

    Young writers, artists and music-makers celebrate.

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  2. Rainbow Festival

    An October festival celebrating Hunter gays and lesbians.

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    Newcastle's Famous Tram

    Take a 45-minute tour of the city's beaches and historic sites while receiving a running commentary and a little local gossip, delivered with typical Novacastrian zest. The best spent 12 bucks in Newcastle. Vineyard tours are also available on weekends.

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    Fishers @ Honeysuckle

    Fishers @ Honeysuckle hires bikes and buggies and is also a booking agent for several cruise companies in the area which specialise in drifting around the harbour, sauntering over to Stockton or floating as far afield as Morpeth.

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  5. Newcastle Music Week

    There has always been a lively music scene in the city. Newcastle Music Week celebrates this side of the local culture.

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  6. Air Sports Newcastle

    Had enough? Feel like jumping from Strzelecki…? Paragliding with Air Sports Newcastle is perhaps the answer.

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    Pacific Dreams

    Rents secondhand fibreglass boards and far less painful soft boards.

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  8. Music and Moonlight Concert

    Music and Moonlight Concert celebrates Newcastle's musical side.

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  9. Surfest Surf School

    Held at Nobbys Beach, buy four lessons and get one free.

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  10. Newcastle Surf School

    Choose between Nobbys or the more private Cave's Beach.

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  12. Hades Day Tours

    Goes to the vineyards also, but is a wee bit cheaper.

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    Hunter River Cruises

    Sail around the harbour or inland to Morpeth.

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  14. Heliservices

    Stuff the bus, take a chopper instead.

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  15. Best Tours

    Tour the Lower Hunter Vineyards.

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  17. Tex Tours

    Offers entertaining full-day Hunter Valley winery tours ($65, backpacker discounts available) as well as dolphin and 4WD dune tours to Port Stephens ($75).

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  18. Hunter Valley Day Tours

    Visits four or five Hunter Valley vineyards, the Hunter Valley Cheese Company and the Hunter Valley Chocolate Company; prices vary according to group numbers (from $95 per person).

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