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AM: Spend the morning cruising on 'Temptation', while you experience this once in a lifetime opportunity to swim with wild dolphins.
AM: Botanic Garden Bush Food Trail tour. Discover how boomerangs are made, where to find bush medicines and sample some native bush food products.
PM: Cleland Wildlife park tour. Explore the trails and learn about native animals and Aboriginal methods of cooking and hunting.
Fly to Kangaroo Island and head out in search of fascinating wildlife encounters, including a guided beach walk at Seal Bay, home to a colony of Australian sea lions. At lunch you will enjoy a gourmet picnic, before setting off to explore the north coast.
AM: Visit Flinders Chase National Park, where you will see at close range the New Zealand fur seals.
PM: Explore the Rocky River region for yet more wildlife and visit Hanson Bay Sanctuary, in search of koalas. By special permit, you will enter the Kelly Hill Conservation Park to see mobs of kangaroos and Tammar wallabies graze on the open plains!
Spend the day exploring with your own personal guide/driver. Visit one of the boutique wineries in the region and stop off at one of the Ghost Towns for some stories and photos.
Your expert guide will take you through Bunyeroo and Brachina Gorges, 'a geological corridor through time', to the western side of the range. Here you will find 600 million year old fossils! Then visit the historic railway town of Quorn, home to the famous Pichi Richi steam train and follow alongside the original track through the Pichi Richi Pass to views of the Spencer Gulf and Port Augusta.
PM: Enjoy an afternoon/evening tour which focuses on the antics of the eastern quoll in its natural habitat. Dinner will be served in a remote location on private land where you will experience a gourmet Tasmanian game food campfire dinner under the stars. After dark experience a captivating encounter with some of Tasmania’s unique and endearing wildlife species: Eastern quoll (also known as the Eastern Native Cat), wombats, platypus, wallabies, bandicoots and possums are some of the resident species.
Make your way to Muir's Beach on the Esplanade, Coles Bay and discover Tasmania's greatest sea kayaking destination on the Freycinet Paddle. On this relaxed, three hour guided tour of the Freycinet coastline, you'll glide beneath pink granite mountains, past pristine sandy beaches and across waters so crystal clear you feel like you can touch the marine life below. Watch for soaring sea eagles, elusive little penguins and the sudden gleam of a dolphin's back as it breaks the ocean's surface.
AM: Learn about the life of a convict in a place once considered "Hell On Earth". Take the opportunity while you're there to view the site as the convicts once did - from aboard a cruise boat on the harbour and see the tiny convict Cemetery Island where the prisoners were buried.
PM: View the spectacular coastline of the Tasman Peninsula with fluted sea cliffs and stunning beaches.
Full day: Robert Pennicott's multi-award winning wilderness and wildlife cruise takes you along Bruny Islands rugged coast beneath some of Australia's highest sea cliffs to enter deep sea caves and join in the search for wildlife such as seals, dolphins and birds of prey.
