These are two of Tasmania's most gorgeous coasts - but which one's for you?

While both coastlines are packed with adventure and places of bewitching beauty, there's one that has your name on it. Our experts help you find out.

By Amy Cooper

As you will know by now, I'm a glass-completely-full kind of person, so when it comes to taking sides on Tassie I'm heading for the coast where my cup runneth over - with whisky, wine, beer, a saturation of sunshine and panoramas you can drink in until you're giddy with gorging on gorgeousness.

In every way, east is a feast. Wineglass Bay - although admittedly more reminiscent of a sapphire schooner with a creamy head - is easily the most breathtaking of Tasmania's stellar cast of scenery. The east coast's most famous vista asks you why you'd ever need the Caribbean or South Pacific or Mediterranean when our very own apple isle has literally the blueprint for a picture-perfect beach; aquamarine water and sheet-white sands and - hang on, what's that behind it? Pink mountains!

If you ever painted pink landscapes as a kid because they were just so much prettier that way, the Freycinet Peninsula's magnificent Hazards prove you right. The rose-tinted spectacle of granite peaks Amos, Dove, Baudin, Parsons and Mayson makes you wish for giant crayons to colour all the world's high points the exact same blush.

For maximum magic enjoy them at sunset, from one of the Freycinet National Park's lookouts or even better, with a tumbler of pinot and plate of oysters at the Devil's Corner cellar door beside Moulting Lagoon, where vineyards slope to the shore. It's just one of 20-plus wineries in the state's best wine region, dotted along 221 kilometres of premium cool-climate terroir, with 300 hectares under vine.

Most of Tasmania's famed whiskies hail from 12-plus distilleries on this side of the state, too, including two right on the seafront: Ironhouse Tasmania at Four Mile Creek, and Spring Bay near Orford. They're interspersed with cheese and chocolate makers, fruit and nut growers, oyster and mussel farms, and a bunch of other bounty from the east coast's splendid soil.

In 2015, those clever Tassie tourism folks packaged the east coast's triple threat of food, booze and views into the Great Eastern Drive, and this spectacular coast-clinging road between St Helens in the north and Orford in the south is a highway to a heaven of little seaside towns, hiking trails in four national parks, and abundant accommodation options - from wilderness campsites to luxury eco-lodges - along its ravishing route.

Stay on the mainland or hop across to car-free wildlife sanctuary Maria Island, also known as "Noah's Ark", thanks to its populations of rare and endangered critters including the Tasmanian devil, swift parrot and Cape Barren goose.

The coast with the most is also the sunniest by far, with 300 bright days a year on average blazing from the Bay of Fires to Bicheno to Beerbarrel Beach. The west is wetter, and the east is better.

By Mal Chenu

Wild, raw and untamed, the west coast of Tasmania is the Raygun of Aussie getaways. Any old tourist can do the sophisticated, cosmopolitan east coast and hit bustling metropolises like Bicheno and Swansea, with their fancy B&Bs and pubs with TWO beers on tap, but a true adventurer will head to the coast less travelled.

From the primeval Tarkine rainforest in the north-west to the Port Davey oceanic inlet in the south-west, this is seriously rare Earth.

The star of the superior side of the island is the Tasmanian Wilderness World Heritage Area (TWWHA), which covers nearly a quarter of the state. A Gondwanan environment of lush rainforest, alpine plains, misty mountains, glacial valleys, wild rivers, deep lakes, rugged coasts, Indigenous heritage and the cleanest air in the world, this is a unique part of not just the state or the country, but the planet.

The photogenic west coast is a hiking nirvana, and the landscapes, seascapes, riverscapes and lakescapes will make you a very happy wanderer. And with nearly three metres of annual rain, the waterfalls - particularly Nelson Falls and Montezuma Falls - will have you gushing.

If you'd rather sail than slog, you can glide up the mirror-like Gordon River on a cruise from Macquarie Harbour in the picture-perfect seaside village of Strahan, taking in the Hells Gates convict penal settlement and a rainforest landing where you walk among 2000-year-old Huon pine trees.

Another way to explore the vivid west coast is by road, perhaps as part of a lap of Tassie. On the Western Wilds road trip, you leave the big smoke of Hobart behind and wind your way along sign-posted roads and detours, including the "99 Bends" between the Derwent Bridge and Queenstown, a road so sweeping and majestic, it forms part of the annual Targa road race.

Tasmania's secluded west coast is the place to go if you want to hike, bike, paddle or breakdance like nobody's watching.