Fantastic Flinders Island

Depart Moorabbin Airport at 3.00pm for Flinders Island, with fabulous views of Wilsons Promontory as you head south across Bass Strait.

Transfer to Trousers Point and enjoy a drink before dinner together at the boutique Mountain Seas Lodge.

2 nights: Mountain Seas Lodge

Your expert local guide will take you on a two day exploration of Flinders Island. The day starts with a short beach walk at Trousers Point, at the base of Mt Strzelecki.

Get your camera out for the striking Fotheringate Bay, with granite caves formed by emerging groundwater and marine erosion. Head north to Killiecrankie, famous for its white topaz known as Killiecrankie Diamonds.

On to Palana on the northern tip of the island, where evidence of WWII surveillance is still visible, then across to North East River, where the Tasman Sea and Bass Strait meet.

Take a trip to Vinegar Hill, where, depending on the tide, you’ll see a shipwreck near Cape Barren Island. Visit the Patriarch Wildlife Sanctuary to meet wombats, wallabies and Cape Barren geese.

Stretch your legs in the capital Whitemark. Reflect at Wybalenna, site of the Tasmanian Aboriginal settlement between 1833 and 1847, when all indigenous Tasmanians were moved to this location.

Visit scenic Port Davies, Lillies Beach and Allports, then the Furneaux Museum, which offers a fascinating insight into the history of the Furneaux Group of Islands, of which Flinders Island is just one of 52. And then it’s time to fly back to Moorabbin, touching down at around 5.45pm.