Questa' Heritage Cottage

Catching the Ferry to Bruny Island

You will need to drive to Kettering, drive your car onto the ferry to cross the D'Entrecasteaux Channel to Roberts Point on Bruny Island. There is no public transport, taxis, or hire car depot on Bruny Island. You will need to either drive your own car or hire a car on the mainland.

Are you short on ideas as to what to do on Bruny Island? Not sure how long to stay?

Visit the Tourism Tasmania website.

Why not savour your journey to Questa and tease yourself with some stops on the way to your new home and after you have settled in. Travellarks makes some great suggestions to add interest to you road trip in their post "Roadtrip Hobart to Bruny Island".

Visit Travellarks "Roadtrip Hobart to Bruny Island"

Step back in time to 1884. Bruny’s best kept secret. A short drive from Questa.

816 Killora Road, North Bruny, TAS, Australia, Tasmania. Walk the grounds to the waters edge. Learn about the life of real ordinary people in extraordinary situations, living on Bruny Island more than 100 years ago.

Visit the Bruny Island Quarantine Station History Museum Post

Some ideas of what to do, where to go, if travelling to Bruny Island by boat

Go to Fiona Harper's Website

Some of Our Favourite Walks on Bruny Island

  • A. Truganini lookout, a short easy walk. Walk up around 300 steps to see the spectacular Neck which connects North and South Bruny Island. Wild Ocean on the south and calm lagoon on the north. Car park and toilet facilities.

  • B. Cape Bruny Lighthouse.  A short walk from the carpark to the Cape Bruny Lighthouse.  Getting there involves driving along some beautiful costal roads.  You will be rewarded with stunning views.  If you have time walk the adjacent Labillardiere Peninsula Track

  • C. Cape Queen Elizabeth Track.  Bruny Islands signature walk.

  • D. Dennes Point Heritage Trail.  Start at the Café and gallery at Dennes Point

Fluted Cape - Great Short Walk

Fluted Cape is one of Tasmania’s 60 Great Short Walks. The 60 Great Short Walks offer the best of Tasmania's day walking opportunities. 2.5 hours return, 4 km, walk clockwise only. A shorter, easier walk to Grass Point is also an option, Grade 4. Bruny Island offers a rich history, spectacular scenery, close-up wildlife and a variety of walking opportunities. ​Located within South Bruny National Park, this delightful, adventurous circuit walk also has a shorter, easier option to Grass Point and return. There are occasional boulder-strewn sections before you reach some remains of the bay whaling days at Grass Point. From Grass Point, either return to Adventure Bay or continue on the more challenging Fluted Cape walk. A little further past Grass Point is a gulch between the point and Penguin Island. The track climbs up to Fluted Cape, with its beautiful cliff-top views, then steeply descends on the return to Adventure Bay. Please refer to the Parks and Wildlife Service Tasmania website (parks.tas.gov.au) for up-to-date information about this walk, alerts, closures, safe walking guidelines, leave no trace principles and National Park entry fees where applicable....

Questa' Heritage Cottage
Questa' Heritage Cottage

Some of our favourite Food and Drink suggestions

Get there by driving either along the costal route and return by taking the inland route. You will find it hard not to stop for photos. Make some time to walk along the shoreline. Maybe walk the Dennes Point Heritage Trail. An easy drive from Questa.

Go to Dennes Point Cafe Website

55 Adventure Bay Rd, Adventure Bay. Head on down here with the kids after visiting the Neck. 

Visit the Neck and maybe stop by here. Watch cheese being made. Enjoy the heat from the outdoor wood fired oven during winter.

Go to the Bruny Island Cheese and Beer Co

Maybe stop here on the way back home after visiting the lighthouse.

Go to the Bruny Island Premium Wines, Cellar Door and Restaurant Website

A locals favourite. Absolute Water front.

Go to the Hotel Bruny Website