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Flinders Island, March ‘25 (#2 in series: spine)

 

 

All photos in this post were taken from Walkers Lookout.

(actually, from just slightly below it, which is the better choice, if you are looking south)

Near to the centre of Flinders Island, Walkers Lookout offers sweeping vistas in every direction, as you can see, here.

The best views look south, across the Darling Range and then to the much higher Strzelecki Peaks which dominate Flinders Island’s southwestern “corner”…and define the featured image’s horizon.

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Flinders Island, March ‘25 (#1 in series: characteristics)

 

 

It is Bass Strait’s largest island.

Among Tasmania’s more than 1,000 islands, only the “Apple Isle” is bigger.

However, Flinders Island’s nearly 1,400 square kilometres are home to fewer than 1,000 humans.

Any observant tourist will encounter many more wallabies than people; the same is true of wombats, cattle and Cape Barren geese.

Finding a splendidly wild and uncrowded beach is phenomenally easy; Flinders Island has more than 120 of them!

And if you are partial to granite and lichens….

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Word Power: on the dining room wall at The Missing Goose

 

The Missing Goose is a cafe/restaurant on Flinders Island, in Bass Strait, north of the northeastern edge of “mainland” Tasmania.

(its Slovenian proprietor/chef rescued an orphaned Cape Barren gosling. She took delight in its return to the wild, but fondly hopes that its adult self may, eventually, choose her venue’s backyard as its nesting site)

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