Bruny Island Adventure

Friday, 14 January 2022

I'm really conscious of making the most of good weather and the remainder of my holidays so just a few days after Lake Rhona I jumped on the early morning ferry to Bruny Island so I could do one of my favourite jog-hikes - the Labillardiere Peninsula loop. It's a nice distance and lovely and soft underfoot, which is great for sore feet!

The trail is about 17k long, with only a few easy hills which I walk up anyway. It's a pretty cruisy adventure.

Normally when I do this loop I have a break for lunch then do the Fluted Cape hike to make the trip fully worthwhile (given the reasonably high cost of the ferry).  This time I was finished by 11ish, so I decided to take my lunch roll with me on the Cape Queen Elizabeth hike.   The last time I was on Bruny Island was right at the start of the pandemic in 2020, I remember there were signs up in the Adventure Bay Store (where I usually got a toasted sandwich from), stating that they would only sell toilet paper to locals.  Unlike that trip, it was very busy with tourists this time, and I actually had trouble finding a parking spot near the start of the hike. Just as I finally pulled over I got a text from Paul, asking me if I wanted to join him and Dani for wood fired pizza at Dennes Point, the northern tip of the island.  So I had to make the difficult decision of whether to take my tired body on a 12k hike,  OR, sit on a sunny deck and consume pizza.

20 minutes later I was enjoying a delicious pizza in the sunshine.  I wish I had taken a photo of the pizza and the location as it was simply lovely. After lunch I went for a short walk along the beach - I've only been to Dennes Point a couple of times.

With lunch and the secondary stroll complete I hightailed it onto the 2:20 ferry so as to miss the Sunday afternoon rush.  What a lovely day.