Yesterday we joined Bruny Island Charters on a trip around the southern end of Bruny.
The company is located at Adventure Bay and its meeting point is a short walk from the camp site.
The company is located at Adventure Bay and its meeting point is a short walk from the camp site.
They have clearly got a business model that works as there are 4 high powered boats each taking around 40 passengers and it looked like it was full.
The whole thing is well managed around every one having a good time, from big smiled staff, to jokes, so bad there funny, and a professional tour. While the three hour tour is well worth doing, I felt it really turned something of mild interest into a business.
The scenery is interesting and there are some wonderfully eroded formations, geological views, caves, a "blow back cave"
and a herd of seals. Certainly the boats are able to get "right up close". Perhaps the weather discouraged dolphins and some sea birds the could easily have become a highlight of the tour. The high powered boats could have added a new dimension of "thrill" also, but I guess like everything else regulations limit the operator.
At $100 per person I felt after the trip it was a little on the high side for what we got. I also noted that older folk seemed to enjoy the trip a great deal so perhaps its just me.
Interestingly at the end of the trip the crew asked us to remember that it was Bruny Island Charters (BIC) we had traveled with as a new competitor had started up near by.
At $100 per person I felt after the trip it was a little on the high side for what we got. I also noted that older folk seemed to enjoy the trip a great deal so perhaps its just me.
Interestingly at the end of the trip the crew asked us to remember that it was Bruny Island Charters (BIC) we had traveled with as a new competitor had started up near by.
Every one I spoke to on the trip and back in the camp said that the "yellow boat tour " (BIC) was the trip to go on.
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