Welcome to Bruny Island Tours
If you are looking to plan a tour on Bruny Island, or looking for a pleasant day trip from Hobart, the Bruny Island Tours site is set up to give you all your best tour and day trip options.
Bruny Island Tours:
the complete Bruny Island Tour Guide
There are numerous ways you can tour and enjoy the amazing place that is Bruny Island. Bruny offers tourist a wide range of options and caters for every budget. If you want you can stay in 5 star eco-accommodation such as 43 Degrees or in a comfortable beach side shack or even camp for free at one of Bruny Islands many beautiful camping grounds.
Getting to Bruny Island
If you are planning a day trip from Hobart or going to stay a few days on Bruny Island (which I would recommend) then you need to catch the Bruny Island Ferry. The Ferry leaves from Ferry Road Kettering. Kettering is about 30 minutes drive south of Hobart on the Channel Highway. The Bruny Island Ferry runs from early morning until 7 at night - seven days a week. For fares and the ferry timetable click here.
If you are traveling to Bruny Island on a tight budget the good news is that walk on passengers travel for free on the Bruny Island Ferry!
Bruny Island Tour Options (for detailed information on day trips from Hobart or on Bruny telephone:03 62674088 )
Guided Fishing Tours of Bruny Island
Fishing on Bruny Island can be done from shore, boat or kayak. For someone who has many years experience fishing around Bruny Island, the Channel and the Huon River visit the Tasmanian Fishing Guide website by clicking here. For shore based fishing or fishing from a kayak click here to be taken to our page.
Bruny Island Boat Tours
Two companies run boat tours on Bruny Island, these are Bruny Island Wildlife Adventures and Bruny Island Cruises. Both these tours leave from the same jetty at Adventure Bay on Bruny Island and both follow the same route down the east coast of Bruny Island to the seal colonies on the Friar Islands on Bruny's far south. Both of these boat tours are excellent and make an exciting and interesting day trip from Hobart. For more information on choosing your Bruny Island cruise options please click here to go the "Cruises" page.
Walking Tours: There is a great guided walking tour on Bruny Island which is offered by INALA on Bruny Island (visit them on www.inalabruny.com.au). If you are not interested in a guided walking tour then Bruny is an independent walker's paradise with heaps of well maintained walking tracks all over the island. Walking Bruny Island can be a great experience and again, if you are based in Hobart it's an easy day trip from Hobart. For detailed information on walks go to our page Bruny Island Walks for descriptions, trails and maps.
Bruny Bushwalking
If you are into bushwalking Bruny Island offers many different different walks of various degrees of difficulty and length. Bruny has short walks that might last only 15 minutes or so, long walks that may last several days. Bruny Island's walk can take you through temperate rainforests to old mining camp out out into the rugged wilderness.
Bruny Beach Walking
Bruny Island has some of the most beautiful and pristine beaches on earth. Some of Bruny Island's beaches are many miles long, other beaches are in sheltered little bays and only a few hundermeters or less. Bruny Island's beaches are never crowded. I've often walked for hours along the Neck's beach at Bruny Island's penguin colonies and not seen another person. A must do walk is the Fluted Cape walk where you will have an excellent chance of seeing Bruny Island's white kangaroos. The Bruny white kangaroo lives in the wild all around Fluted Cape and they are quite used to walkers so it is common to be able to get very close to a white kangaroo, particuarly if you walk quietly in the late afternoon or early morning.
Touring Bruny By Road
Bruny Island's roads run from Dennes Point on the island's Northern tip to Cape Bruny on its Southern tip. The main road is seal from Robert's Point where you drive off the Ferry to Adventure Bay, which is the main tourist destination. The remainder of Bruny's roads are gravel but are generally well maintained and passable in most weather conditions. There are well marked viewing places along Bruny's road network where you can park to enjoy the many fabulous views that Bruny Island has to offer. A downloadable road map of Bruny is posted on this site's map page. You can also obtain a free information brochure which includes a road map when you purchase you Bruny Island Ferry ticket at Kettering.
Touring Bruny By Water
Boating
Seeing Bruny Island by boat is probably the best way to appreciate this magnificent island. If you have a trailer boat then Bruny offers many locations for launching it. There are boat ramps at Adventure Bay, Allona, Dennes Point and Roberts Point. If you have a four-wheel-drive then there are many places that you can launch a boat from the beach in many of Bruny's sheltered bays.
If you are planning to arrive at Bruny by water in a sailing boat then there are many sheltered bays on Bruny Island that will provide excellent anchorage in almost any weather and also with easy access to the shore.
Kayaking on Bruny
Bruny Island is a kayaking paradise visit our page on kayaking Bruny for more details
Surfing Bruny's Breaks
There are a number of excellent surfing spots on Bruny both point breaks and beach breaks. Most, such as the Cloudy Bay break, are easily assessable by road though some, such as the Mars Bluff beach break require an easy 20 minute walk. For more information go to our page on surfing Bruny.
Diving around Bruny Island
The both snorkel and scuba diving on Bruny Island is nothing short of fantastic; clear water, pristine kelp forests, amazing reef communties. Though you do need a good wetsuit, 7mm in winter and at least 4mm in summer. Go to our page on water activities for more details
If you have any questions or queries related to any of the information on this site please do not hesitate to contact me by clicking on the email me button below
