Transfer from Hobart Airport to the Henry Jones, Australia’s first dedicated art hotel, a fusion of history and modernity, art and design. Enjoy the facilities of this remarkable hotel or explore this picturesque harbour city at your leisure. Your Welcome Dinner hosted by your Journey Director at award-winning Aloft Restaurant, will showcase the very best of Tasmanian produce.

Overnight: Henry Jones Art Hotel or similar

A spectacular discovery awaits on Bruny Island today where dramatic landscapes are matched by delicious island produce. Explore Bruny’s wilderness, breathtaking coast, heritage and Australia’s southernmost lighthouse. Stunning sights also await at Truganini Lookout, The Neck Wildlife Reserve, South Bruny National Park and Adventure Bay. We learn for ourselves how the island’s local produce is as refreshing as its beaches, cliffs and wildlife as we sample throughout the day cheese, wood-oven bread, seafood, honey and chocolate, all island specialties. 

Overnight: Henry Jones Art Hotel or similar

A breathtaking flight to Flinders Island begins the day. En-route we fly over Maria Island, the awe-inspiring Eastern Coastline, picturesque Freycinet Peninsula and stunning Wineglass Bay.

Located in the waters of Bass Strait, off the north-eastern tip of Tasmania, Flinders is the largest island in the Furneaux Island Group. This is a group of more than 50 islands that are all that remain part of the land bridge which once joined Tasmania to the Australian mainland. Our touring includes a visit to Wybalenna Historic Site where the restored Wybalenna Chapel is the only building remaining from the ill-fated settlement.

The Furneaux Museum is devoted to the cultural and natural history of the Furneaux Islands, showing where some of Australia’s earliest European history took place and displays fascinating and historic shipwreck artefacts. Following lunch, take a short tour of Whitemark, the main settlement on Flinders Island, which has a rich and remarkable past, with stories of life in a remote and sometimes harsh environment. Re-board the aircraft for the scenic flight to Devonport. 

Overnight: Novotel Devonport or similar

This morning, fly to King Island to tour this unique island. Learn about its fascinating maritime past including the many shipwrecks which surround the island and visit the main town of Currie. Learn about the importance of the kelp industry and, of course, enjoy a tasting at the famous and award-winning King Island Dairy.

We fly on to Wynyard then transfer to Cradle Mountain Lodge located in a picturesque alpine woodland. Encompassing some 161,000 hectares, Cradle Mountain – Lake St Clair National Park covers some of Tasmania’s highest country and is renowned for its magnificent alpine scenery. At the base of Cradle Mountain, in deep depressions cut by glacial action, lies Crater Lake, Dove Lake and Lake Lilla.  

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Transfer back to Wynyard this morning to view fields of joyous tulips in full bloom at the Table Cape Tulip Farm  dramatically perched atop an extinct volcanic vent.^

Re-board your private aircraft for the awe-inspiring flight from Wynyard to Strahan taking in some of Tasmania’s most spectacular aerial sightseeing over the Cradle Mountain region and Lake St Claire^. In the afternoon we arrive in Strahan, known as the gateway to two of Tasmania’s renowned wild rivers, the mighty Gordon and Franklin. Lying in the heart of Tasmania’s World Heritage wilderness area, it is a region of spectacular gorges and deep river valleys.

Overnight: Strahan Village or similar

A day to remember as we cruise the pristine World Heritage-listed Gordon River enjoying lunch and a glass of Tasmanian wine while learning about the area’s natural and human history from the Premier Upper Deck.  Cross Macquarie Harbour, a body of water six times larger than Sydney Harbour, and cut through the perfect reflections of the Gordon River discovering a fascinating convict history and viewing the dense rainforest that blankets the steep gorges all the way down into the river itself. Sail through the narrow and notorious harbour entrance known to convicts as Hells Gates and hear the roar and power of the sea at Ocean Beach. Learn about aquaculture farms and take a guided stopover at Sarah Island, a former penal settlement where convicts laboured under the harshest conditions in the rainforest, felling Huon pines for boat building.

Take a walk through the temperate rainforest, learning of the local flora and fauna while wandering elevated boardwalks that thread their way between the magnificent rainforest species visit the Huon Pine sawmill. This evening, we view the play “The Ship That Never Was”, tale of the Frederick, a ship that was built and stolen by the runaway convicts of Sarah Island.

Overnight: Strahan Village or similar

Board our private aircraft this morning for a scenic flight departing Strahan and flying over the pristine and awe-inspiring south-western coastline of Tasmania as we view the majestic and dramatic scenery of the rugged terrain and wild beaches below. On arrival in Hobart, we enjoy lunch at the acclaimed Frogmore Estate before taking a historic tour of the city which will take in Salamanca and Battery Point. The Farewell Dinner tonight will be at award-winning Landscape Restaurant serving exquisite local produce turned into masterful dishes in the heart of Hobart’s waterfront precinct.

Overnight: Henry Jones Art Hotel or similar