The Bruny Island 3-Hour Eco-Cruise is the shortest of the available cruise options. Guests see only the highlights of the island aboard fast, safe boats that whisk you out of and back into Adventure Bay. On this 50-kilometer journey you will see Bruny Island from the water only, and get an ocean-side perspective of the jagged cliffs and rock formations that line the coast -- sights that you would not be able to reach in any other way. Inhabiting these cliffs and shores are native seals, albatross, eagles, gannet, shearwater and petrel, while in the sea and in the bay just off the island you will find plenty of whales and dolphins. For the nature and wildlife lover without much time to spare, the three-hour Bruny Island Cruise is just about perfect. Cruises depart Adventure Bay at 11:00 a.m. every day except Christmas.
If you are staying in Hobart and wish to see the ecological treasures of Bruny Island from both land and sea, the Bruny Island Full-Day Tour may be for you. Starting with an 8:00 a.m. pickup at the Hobart & Tasmania Visitor Information Center in Hobart City, the tour takes travelers south to Kettering via a scenic bus trip. In Kettering, all will board a ferry to Bruny Island. Once on the island, travelers will have morning tea at a sea-front cafe, then head off on a three-hour tour of the island's coastline by sea. This boat tour offers all of the elements of the 3-Hour Eco-Tour. Upon your return to Adventure Bay, lunch will be served and you can explore the beaches until the bus to Hobart departs at 3:15 p.m., arriving in Hobart by 5:30 p.m. All in all, the main differences between the full-day tours and the three-hour tours are the bus and ferry transfers, morning tea and lunch.
The cream of the crop for Bruny Island cruise-tours is the Bruny Island by Air & Sea Tour, which offers a triple perspective of the island and the region from above, off shore and on the island. The first portion of the tour departs from Hobart airport by small propeller plane and heads south toward Bruny Island. You will see South Arm, Opossum Bay, Iron Pot Lighthouse, Bruny Island's Neck, and Cape Bruny Lighthouse on the way to the Bruny Island airstrip. Once you've landed, a scenic bus tour will ferry you to the Adventure Bay headquarters of Bruny Cruises, where you will enjoy morning tea at a seaside cafe and depart for a three-hour boat cruise of the island. The wildlife and geologic formations of the island will be visible during the cruise tour, which will end back at Adventure Bay with a lunch and free time to explore before you board your plane to head towards Hobart. This combination tour provides an unmatched array of sights -- from the bird's eye view provided by a low-flying plane, to the up-close bay and coastal views of a tourist boat, to the feet-on-the-ground experience of being there.
Bruny Cruise Company, based in Adventure Bay, Tasmania, operates all cruises to Bruny Island.
Bruny Cruises
915 Adventure Bay Road
Adventure Bay TAS 7150
Australia
011-61-03-6293-1465
brunycruises.com.au
