Granite Shore 2: Flinders Island

Pelican, Pacific gulls and silver gulls

Crested terns facing into the wind

North East River at dawn

Oystercatchers

North East River

White faced herons at Long Point

Mt Strzelecki beyond Long Point

Mt Strzelecki beyond Long Point

Western side of Long Point

Flinders Island is the largest of the Bass Strait islands - approx 80k long and 40k wide. With a population of about 800 people it is a paradise of rugged granite coast and mountains and immaculate sandy beaches. I have walked some sections of the coastline and intend eventually to walk it all, some 200+ kilometres. With an excellent air services from Tasmania and Victoria a trip to the island is the cheapest and most efficient form of time travel invented. In one short 30 minute flight from Tassie the clock is turned back half a century.