We drove up to Kettering to meet up with our bus and then headed down to the Bruny Island Ferry, a short ferry ride landed us in Bruny for a 3 hour excursion down the South Bruny coast and around the Friar Islands. We had heard from a bunch of people we meant that the Bruny Island Cruise was the best adventure you can have in Tasmania. The founder of the company Robert Pennicott is a very interesting guy...entrepreneur, environmentalist, adventurer, philanthropist and multi-award-winning pioneer of Tasmania's Eco-tourism industry who has just been named Tasmania's 2012 Australian of the Year. When we got down to the staging area there he was himself, checking in guest and making sure everything was perfect for every guest...there were 160 of us!!! The guy is awesome and is there working along side his wife, young son and daughter. The Cruiser's were specialty built per his specifications at a cost of $550K each (they have 4)...each cruiser will hold 40 guest and 2 crew...there is no such thing as a bad seat...the Captain we had was a very funny, extremely knowledgeable guy named Andrea, he gave us lots of environmental information and at the same time kept us laughing and having fun. The other crew member was more like a steward on a plane, his one and only job was to make sure everyone was comfortable, and not getting sea sick or too cold. The boat really moves, not sure how fast but your hair is definitely flying behind you.
The sights we saw were amazing and very beautiful...the water, cliffs, caves, rock formations, birds and animals had us mesmerized...The Monument and Breathing Rock were sights I will never forget seeing...and the fun of hanging out with 1000 Australian Fur Seals and dozens of Dolphins was cooler than cool.
Tasmania has been wonderful to see and explore, I'm astounded more Americans don't come down here on holiday...the people are as nice as any in the world, the accomodations are clean and inexpensive and the sights and tours are awesome...For anyone not knowing where to go next year Tassie would make you smile!
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| On the ferry. |
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| Salmon Farm...50K 6" Salmon turn into 5kilos in 18 months...millions of $'s. |
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| Floating Kelp. |
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| The cliffs are majestic. |
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| Dressed for warmth not style. |
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| Otto our ship steward...handed out ginger pills to anyone who wanted...free! |
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| Around this corner you leave The Tasman Sea...if you keep going the next thing you'll see is icebergs. |
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| Captain Andrea...very cool cat! |
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| The Monument |
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| Cathedral Cliff's |
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| Breathing Rock... |
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| One of many... |
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| Check out this beautiful spot. |
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| The seals waving at us. |
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| Siesta. |
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| One of the other boats...in 3 hours this was the only time we saw another boat. We all left about the same time. |
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| Dolphins are hard to get shots of. |
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| Walking back to the staging area from the dock. |
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| Another great day. |
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