Bruny Island - Adventure Bay

18 – 20 December 2024

Bruny Island is always a favourite place for a couple of nights so we kept an eye on the BoM app and were able to book a cabin in the caravan park at Adventure Bay, at a time when the weather looked good. We left Hobart after morning tea and stopped at Margate to have a look in the op shops and to pick up some fresh bread.

We arrived at Kettering to see quite a long queue waiting to get on the ferry that had just arrived. We didn’t make it on that one, but were on the next one soon enough as there were two operating at the time. We arrived in Adventure Bay and stopped at the park on the foreshore to have some lunch before checking in to our cabin.

Although the cabins are fairly basic, they have everything we need with a bonus of being right across the road from the beach. There is also a walking track through the bush to the shop.

We went for a walk along the beach, stopping to try to photograph birds. We ended up walking all the way to the creek and then back to the other end of the beach before returning home. It was windy, but still a lovely afternoon.

The following morning, we drove over to the Cape Bruny Lighthouse. After Mick has spent some time photographing some of the local birds, we walked up the hill to the lighthouse. Some excited tourists had spotted an echidna in the low coastal scrub so we joined them in trying to get a photo.

Jetty Beach was just beautiful on a sunny day

It was getting close to lunch time so we decided to drive down to Jetty Beach which was quite close by. We couldn’t remember if we’d been there before, and realised when we arrived that we hadn’t. It’s a stunning little beach and with the warm weather there were lots of people about, but it still didn’t feel crowded. We set up in the day use area to have our picnic lunch before another walk on the beach and then back to Adventure Bay.

Later in the afternoon we went for the short drive to the Mavista Nature Walk. This short, easy walk meanders near the creek through the rainforest and as expected, was a bit muddy. Not much in the way of birdlife, but still a lovely walk.

On our final morning we weren’t in a hurry to get home so we stopped to do the walk to the lookout at The Neck. It’s a long climb up the stairs to the top but the view is fantastic. We also walked along the boardwalk down to the beach but didn’t walk on the beach. Our next stop was for honey ice creams at Bruny Island Honey- YUM!

The Neck - definitely worth the climb

On our way back to Hobart we stopped to buy some local fruit from one of the roadside produce stores and then had a picnic lunch at the beach in Snug. Again, a beautiful sunny day had the locals flocking to the beach.