Mayfield Bay Coastal Reserve is a small conservation area app. 15 minutes drive south of Swansea on the east Coast of Tasmania. Mayfield free camping Swansea ia approximately 90 minutes north east of Hobart.

Mayfield Bay’s sandy beach and coastal area offers excellent free camping, fishing, swimming, surfing and diving in addition to the bautiful views across Great Oyster Bay to Freycinet Peninsula. The reserve has shade and toilet facilities but you will need to bring your own drinking water and camping gear. Mayfield Bay Coastal Reserve free camping Swansea is a great spot to break your journey along the east coast north to St. Helens, Scamander and Bicheno or south to Triabunna, Little Swanport, Orford, Sorell and South East Tasmania or Hobart.  

A little further north from the Mayfield Bay free camping area Swansea you will find the convict built Spiky Bridge. This unusual looking bridge was built in the 1840s by a convict road gang. The bridge was built from local fieldstone with them placed vertically along the parapet, giving the bridge a spiky appearance. It has been claimed that the spikes were designed to prevent cattle falling over the sides; interpretation signs will give you some good information about the nearby Rocky Hills Probation Outstation convict ruins.

• Camping Freycinet National Park Coles Bay
• Camping Wineglass Bay
• Camping Bay Of Fires