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| View of the harbor from the ferry at Kettering |
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| Morning sunlight on Bruny Island B66 |
Of all the places we were to visit on our trip, I might've been the most excited for Bruny Island, but only because of the (very slight) possibility to see penguins. (We didn't.) It was the furthest south we went on our trip in Tasmania, but latitude-wise is not very far south at all: only 43° S.
We left the caravan park in Cygnet before dawn to get to Kettering early enough to make the 7:45am ferry. We started out the day by heading down to Adventure Bay. There's an easy coastal walk out to a grassy point just before a small island (hence, called the Grassy Point walk.) The trail starts along the beach where we saw gulls and oystercatchers and soon heads into a eucalypt forest. It was a pleasant and easy walk along the coast: we saw beds of floating kelp and passed a beach of stacked stones (and stacked some stones ourselves while we were there), a flock of Tasmanian rosellas, and lots of beautiful trees. When we reached Grassy Point there were three Bennetts wallabies waiting for us. It was low tide so we walked across the rocks to Penguin Island. The tide was coming in though, filling the tide pools, so we didn't wait around.
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| Floating masses of kelp |
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| Stacks of stones |
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| A juvenile green rosella or Tasmanian rosella (Platycercus caledonicus) |
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| Grassy Point |
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| Bennetts wallabies |
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| Low tide looking over the rocks to Penguin Island |
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| Bright blue starfish |
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| A pied oystercatcher on the beach |
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