Seasick? Not us
Blowhole above a massive cave
Jurassic dolorite columns "The Monuments"
The Monuments
Sea cave passage through which the boat was driven! At speed!
Sea caves everywhere
Tasman Sea joins the great Southern Ocean
The Friars
Australian fur seals, all males, settling down for winter. Smelt them before we saw them...
If ever you go to Bruny Island, don't miss this tour. Smallish high-powered boats out on the big water for three hours, able to come so close to the cliffs you could almost touch them, and so close to the seals you could smell them. Then powering out to where the albatrosses float and rafts of shearwaters collect together, so far from land. You can feel the big swells and see them rolling into the sheer dolorite cliffs, pouring down the steep faces in a thousand waterfalls. There were precipitous colonies of black-headed cormorants, and the tiny white pockets in the cliff-face where peregrine falcons nest. The trip goes all the way to the southern tip of Bruny, to where the winds are so constant that no trees grow, and there is nothing but ocean until you hit Antarctica. That's where, on a calm day like today, the boats can come in close enough to see the seals. Almost touch the seals in fact. And certainly smell them! Our pilot was a fearless young woman, Elle. It was clear how passionately she loves this remarkable coastline.
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