Craig Parsey one of your skippers grew up in many lightstations around Tasmania, including the extremely remote
Maatsuyker Island,
Cape Bruny and Eddystone Point.
This breathtaking slice of Tasmania's coastline is home to an array of marine wildlife. Our Tasman Island Tours pass through nutrient rich ocean, that's teeming with wildlife; Australian and New Zealand
Fur Seals.
Dolphins and
Whales through their migrations.
Pelagic Seabirds such as; Albatross everyday, Short tailed Shearwaters Storm Petrels, Giant Petrels and more. Coastal seabirds seen everyday, Australasian Gannets, Black Faced Cormorants, Sooty Oyster Catchers, Gulls and
Sea Eagles.
Little Blue penguins are the smallest species of penguin and are only found in the Southern Hemisphere preferring the warmer waters along the shores of Southern Australia, Tasmania and New Zealand. More unusual visitors to the region include
Elephant Seals (See our Elephant seal at our booking office in Dunalley), Leopard Seals and
Killer Whales.
This is a very
picturesque coastline, towering
dolerite seacliffs, mudstone seacaves and islands, sandstone bluffs and offshore granite islands. Home to thousands of nesting seabirds,
seal colonies and the path of migrating Humpback Whales with their calves.