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Bruny Island Wilderness Cruise with Kettering Pickup
Highlights
- Catch the Bruny Island Cruises bus at Kettering for a seamless start to your adventure.
- Experience three extra hours of guided travel, enhancing your journey through stunning landscapes.
- Embark on an award-winning wilderness cruise, witnessing breathtaking coastal views and wildlife.
- Enjoy a beachside lunch option, perfect for refuelling after your scenic cruise experience.
Leave your car at Kettering and catch the Bruny Island Cruises bus service from the Oyster Cove Marina meeting point at 8.15am. The bus service has the additional value of adding three more hours of guided travel experience to your day for an additional AUD15 per person.
The day includes our award winning wilderness cruise which departs daily from Adventure Bay at 11am and returns at approximately 2pm. Our bus departs Adventure Bay at 3.00pm to arrive back to Kettering at around 4.45pm. Warm dress is recommended.
Full-length wind and water proof jackets provided. Bookings are essential. Lunch not included with the cruise but is available for order on the day at the beachside restaurant.
Itinerary highlights
Bruny Island Cruises Cafe
Tour details
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Available from 10 May 2024 to 31 March 2026
Features
Service facilities
Sevice Activity
Actively welcomes people with access needs.
Vision
Caters for people who are blind or have vision loss.
Hearing
Caters for people who are deaf or have hearing loss.
Physical – Mobility
Caters for people with sufficient mobility to climb a few steps but who would benefit from fixtures to aid balance. (This includes people using walking frames and mobility aids)
Operation information
Bruny Island Cruises – Pennicott Wilderness Journeys
Pennicott Wilderness Journey’s Bruny Island Cruises provides an unforgettable wilderness cruise along Bruny Island’s rugged coast in southern Tasmania.
The cruise has been awarded Australia’s Best Ecotourism Product four times. It has also won numerous state tourism awards, including Tasmania’s Best Tourist Attraction 10 times.
The Wilderness Cruise departs from Adventure Bay, Bruny Island and travels along 50 kilometres of coastline to the Friars and back. The custom-built yellow boats take you up close to the awesome ‘Breathing Rock’, into deep sea caves and up close and personal to soaring cliffs and wave carved sea stacks, including the iconic “The Monument.” You’ll feel the power of nature at the point where the Tasman Sea meets the mighty Southern Ocean. Albatross, dolphins, seals and migrating whales are just a few of the abundant wildlife calling the coastline of Bruny Island home.
Bruny Island is accessible by vehicular ferry at Kettering, a 40-minute drive south of Hobart. Guests can drive themselves to Bruny Island for the cruise, join the tour from Kettering or take a Full-Day Tour from Hobart including meals, transfers and sightseeing.
Activities
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Accreditations
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EarthCheck Certified
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ECO Certified (Advanced Ecotourism) by Ecotourism Australia
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Quality Tourism Accreditation
Memberships
- Australian Tourism Export Council
- Regional Tourist/Tourism Association/Organisation
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