20160307 Tas Bruny Island

20160307 Landing at Roberts Point on Bruny Island we head to Adventure Bay, a lovely inlet on the far side of the Island.  South Bruny National Park lies at the Southern tip of Bruny Island off the southeast coast of Tasmania and the park includes all of the coastline and some hinterland between Fluted Cape and the southern part of Great Taylors Bay.
 
We parked up and walked around but apart for one shop there’s not a lot to browse through, so we did a long stroll along only the lovely beach (Adventure Bay).
The main street in Adventure Bay













08-03-2016  Waking to a lovely sunny day but who knows how long it will last, don’t forget we are in Tassis the island with four season’s in one day.  Des booked us on the award winning Island cruise which takes you around Penguin Island and travels the spectacular coast line.

The towering cliffs of Bruny National Park.
The Keyhole Cave will eventually were right through the arch to form a separate stack.
The cliffs are crawling with Kelp and the suction like cups grasp onto the cliffs edge.  This island is renowned for its giant kelp and part of Tasmania’s waters also boast the highest known marine plant diversity anywhere in the world, the plant is also now protected.
The shape formed in the rock resembles that of a Cockatoo and we were told surfers surf through the pass, pretty cool ha.
Passing through The monument at high speed, fun plus.
An arial shot of: The cliffs on South Bruny
The driver nudges the boat closer to the Blow Hole when next the hole blows in rage and sprays the people in the front and all are a laughter.
These rocky cliffs are home to the fur seals and only males live around the Tasmanian coastline, especially outside the breeding season when many disperse from the breeding colonies. Australian fur seal is the world’s fourth-rarest seal species and it was hunted to the brink of extinction last century, population recovery has been slow, and seals are now wholly protected.
They are very smelly and argumentative just like a male
The yellow boats (nicknamed 4WDs of the sea) are designed to cruise in all weather and their manoeuvrability gets you closer to cliff faces and into sea caves.  It is a family owned business who have great sense of humor. 
You are pre warned to rug up and you would be bat shit crazy if you didn’t take their advice.
After the cruise we headed to Alonnah to camp at the back of the Hotel for a couple of days.
It can get a tad boring especially after spending a whole day in the van avoiding the bloody wind, so Des and I walked the town and found the boat harbor.
Just up from the harbor we found the town, a police station and Post Office with a museum attached.

Our neighbour was going fishing so we packed up and headed to the boat ramp to see the fisherman in action and just as we got closer he pulled one in. If I give it to you will you eat it he said, you bet Des and I said, do you know how to clean it, nop said Des so he even cleaned it for us, we ate it the next day and it was yummy, but neither of us could remember what it was called.

I managed a photo of Cath and Hal’s homestead from Bruny Island
The yacht club at Kettering as arrive back on the main land.

We have encountered many of these Bumble Bees in Tassie and I finally managed to capture one, not an easy task.
Location: Bruny Island, Tasmania, Australia

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