Is it worth a look?
How is the walking?
Camping?
Thinking about it but the airline ticket is kind of pricey.
sthughes wrote:Flinders is great if you like beaches the sea, crap if you want alpine areas with water and mud! Yep, Mt Strzelecki is the highlight for bushwalkers, but there is also Pillingers Peak, Mt. Killiecrankie etc, and heaps of deserted beaches. Free camping all over the place - Trousers Point, Yellow Beach, Sawyers Bay, Allports Beach to name a few nice spots.
sthughes wrote:Free camping all over the place - Trousers Point, Yellow Beach, Sawyers Bay, Allports Beach to name a few nice spots.
Wollemi wrote:You can also ride a barge from Bridport to Lady Barron village as a passenger - but it may leave at obscure times due to the tides of the shallow Brid River and strength of the flow through Franklin Sound (the waterway separating Flinders Island from Cape Barren Island).
Wollemi wrote:[You can fly from Bridport (if you are on mainland Tasmania) to the village of Lady Barron, rather than Essendon or Launceston to Whitemark (the largest village on Flinders Island).
You can also ride a barge from Bridport to Lady Barron village as a passenger - but it may leave at obscure times due to the tides of the shallow Brid River and strength of the flow through Franklin Sound (the waterway separating Flinders Island from Cape Barren Island).
Orion wrote:Thanks for the responses. There are of course plenty of nice beaches in Tasmania. But Flinders sounds like it's worth a visit.Wollemi wrote:[You can fly from Bridport (if you are on mainland Tasmania) to the village of Lady Barron, rather than Essendon or Launceston to Whitemark (the largest village on Flinders Island).
You can also ride a barge from Bridport to Lady Barron village as a passenger - but it may leave at obscure times due to the tides of the shallow Brid River and strength of the flow through Franklin Sound (the waterway separating Flinders Island from Cape Barren Island).
It's not easy getting information about this. The booking page on the airline website seems to be perpetually broken. And the barge, does it only run weekly?
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