Twenty five minutes by car from central Hobart, this privately owned property features the 35.22 hectare Thinking Frog Reserve.

 

The high conservation values of the reserve are protected by instrument under s34 of the Tasmanian Nature Conservation Act 2002.

 

The Reserve straddles the Tinderbox peninsula's broad grassy ridgeline, including its highest point, and overlooks water on three sides, from North West Bay and the d'Enctrecasteaux Channel to the Derwent, with Storm Bay and the Southern Ocean beyond.  

 

The Reserve is dominated by dry grassy blue gum forest in excellent condition, with a diverse understorey of native herbs, native grasses including wallaby grass, speargrass, bentgrass, tussock grass and kangaroo grass, and shrubs including viscid daisybush, hop bush, creeping bossiaea, peach heath, native cherry, native cranberry, blackthorn and silver wattle. 

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It is home to mammals including wallabies, pademelons, bettongs, long-nosed potoroos, bandicoots, possums, echidnas, quolls, devils and marsupial mice.

 

Birds include parrots, pardalotes, eagles, kookooburras, lapwings, native hens, rosellas, robins, butcherbirds, shrikes, fairywrens, wattlebirds, honeyeaters, thornbills and currawongs. Nearby waters are visited by dolphins, whales and fur seals. 

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The Reserve provides habitat for several endangered or vulnerable species: swift parrots (which migrate in spring from the mainland to feed on the nectar of blue gum flowers in Tinderbox and a few other locations, and to rear their chicks); forty-spotted pardalotes (which are found in only a few locations, including Tinderbox);  Tasmanian wedge-tailed eagles; and Eastern barred bandicoots. 

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The Reserve adjoins two other significant reserves, the Tinderbox Nature Reserve (managed by Tasmania Parks & Wildlife) and the Tinderbox Hills Reserve (owned by the Tasmanian Land Conservancy).

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The Reserve is traversed by the Tinderbox Hills Walking Track, which is a public walking trail managed by Kingborough Council.