Hours, prices and access verified by the Bruny Island Tours team — last checked 2026-09-21.
A strip of sand between two halves of an island, a white tower above the
Southern Ocean, and sea cliffs you can only see from a boat. Weighing up
tours from Hobart to Bruny Island? These are the places the day takes you.
The set opens at The Neck, the isthmus between North and South Bruny, seen from the timber
steps that climb to its lookout. Then Cape Bruny Lighthouse, first lit in 1838, stands on its
headland in the far south.
After that the coast: quiet bays, a lagoon under the gums, a wide beach in low sun, and the
cliffs and a wooded headland seen from the water. The wildlife follows. A white wallaby grazes
beside a grey one, dolphins leap through a wave, and fur seals lie hauled out on the rocks.
The set closes with the food the day tours stop for, oysters, cheese and ale, and with a
still channel and the vines.
The Neck from above, the lookout stairs dropping towards the isthmus between the ocean beach and the bayTwo walkers going down the boardwalk above The Neck, the long ocean beach beside themA long flight of timber steps climbing a grassy dune to the lookoutWalkers climbing a timber staircase up a grassy hillside under a blue skyThe white tower of Cape Bruny Lighthouse against broken cloud, coastal heath around its baseTurquoise water below a bush-covered slope, a white beach curving awayA small group walking a wide, empty beach in low sun, forest along the shoreA quiet sandy bay below a wooded hill, the water clear to the sandA timber boardwalk winding through tree ferns in damp forestA still lagoon under overhanging gum branches, a headland across the waterThe sun low over the sea, flat rock shelves running out into the washLayered sea cliffs dropping into the water, a small cruise boat at their footA steep wooded headland and a low island off it, a boat's wake curving past in deep blue waterA white wallaby standing upright beside a grey one in a grassy paddockA white wallaby grazing on a grassy slopeTwo dolphins leaping side by side through a breaking waveSeabirds skimming a grey channel below wooded hillsFreshly opened oysters on rock salt with lemon wedges and a shucking knifeA picnic of cheese, bread and wine laid out on a barrel under vine leavesA plate of oysters held up on a sandy beach, eucalypts behindCheeses, stout and ale laid out on a tableBunches of dark wine grapes hanging on the vine in low autumn lightA wooden boat at anchor in a green channel below forested hillsA still, grey morning on the water, low hills along the far shore
