Hobart Bruny Island Sightseeing and Food Tour

Experience the best of Bruny Island, on a fully-inclusive Bruny Island Food, Sightseeing & Lighthouse Tour, departing from Hobart. Company Director Craig Parsey, whose childhood was spent on lighthouse stations around Tasmania, including Cape Bruny, brings a personal connection and deep knowledge of the island’s history, people, and hidden gems. This tour Includes a delicious sit-down lunch featuring premium local produce, a mouth-watering, rustic morning-tea of Bruny Island cheeses, Get Shucked oysters, served with freshly baked bread on the beach. Samples of tasty chocolates, fudges, and honey at two local venues. See a white wallaby in the wild, and enjoy the Historic Cape Bruny Lighthouse Tour, a true highlight of the day, only available with us. Explore the Neck and Truganini Lookout for sweeping 360-degree views of Bruny Island. Our knowledgeable tour guides will show you the best of the island and mesmerise you with stories from the past throughout the day.

Meeting Point

Tasmanian Travel & Information Centre

20 Davey St, Hobart TAS 7000, Australia

Meet for a 7:00 am departure at Tasmanian Travel and Information Centre, on the corner of Elizabeth Street and 20 Davey Street Hobart.

What's included:

• Mouth watering lunch menu. Seafood platters, slow cooked lamb, seafood chowder and more local foods.
• Hotel pick-up and Drop-off from select Hobart hotels
• Bruny Island Honey, Chocolates and Fudges prepared at the venues by our guides
• Ferry Fares, Cape Bruny Lighthouse Tour and all food tasting costs
• Morning Tea drinks available. Coffee, Tea, Herbal Tea, Hot Chocolate
• Translations & Subtitles
• Highly experienced Bruny Island tour guides
• Tasmanian National Park day entry pass
• Morning Tea at the beach with Bruny Island Cheese, Get Shucked Oysters and Fresh Bread.
• Historic Cape Bruny Lighthouse Tour - Explore Australia's Southern-most Lighthouse

What to expect:

Duration: 10 hours

Your tour begins with pickup from your Hobart hotel and a scenic drive to the pretty coastal town of Kettering, where you will catch your Bruny Island ferry. 
Enjoy the 15-minute cruise on the D’Entrecasteaux Channel over to Bruny Island, then travel by air-conditioned minivan to the narrow spit called The Neck connecting the north and south parts of the island, passing oyster farms and grazing properties en route. Your island tour begins with views from Adventure Bay lookout and the Hummock lookout, a significant indigenous site that's home to Truganini Memorial.
Continue to Adventure Bay where your guide will prepare a picnic style morning tea of warm wood fired breads, award winning cheeses and juicy fresh oysters.  

Your tour continues over the Mount Mangana Trail and through ancient rainforests with Tree Ferns standing 16-foot (5 meters) high and, keeping an eye out for echidnas, wallabies, wildflowers and the island's unique birdlife.

Make your way to Cape Bruny Lighthouse in the South Bruny National Park for your exclusive group lighthouse tour. The lighthouse is Australia's last vantage point to spot migrating humpback and southern right whales, and an important navigational landmark for ships at sea. The coastal views are among the best in Tasmania with rugged dolerite coastlines looming eerily over the Tasman Sea.

Feeling hungry by now, stop at Bruny Island Hotel for a wonderful lunch featuring regional foods such as a delicious Seafood Chowder with locally caught fish, seafood platters, beef, chicken, vegan and vegetarian options and the popular slow cooked shoulder of lamb. 

The afternoon is all about nature and more food, with stops at Get Shucked for fresh oysters, Bruny Island Fudge Chocolate Shop, Bruny Island Honey Shed and Bruny Island Cheese Company to taste delicious artisan cheeses and see how it is made.

You complete the day with your round-trip ferry to Kettering before returning to Hobart.