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Bruny Island Full Day Tour & Cape Bruny Lighthouse Access

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Duration10h

GroupUp to 19

LanguagesEN

PickupAt your hotel

Inside the 1836 Lighthouse: Bruny Island's Only Exclusive Access Tour

You get hotel pickup from over 20 Hobart locations, a full day with a local guide, exclusive access inside Cape Bruny Lighthouse with views from the 1836 balcony, South Bruny National Park entry, honey tastings at Bruny Island Honey, and the chance to search for the island's rare white wallaby. Ferry fares are included; lunch and purchases at local producers are your own cost. The tour departs at 7am and returns around 5:30pm, so book your pickup location after confirming your accommodation.

10h

Step-by-step itinerary

Pickup from Hobart hotel or meeting point
Short ferry crossing to Bruny Island
Visit Bruny Island Bread Fridges for morning tea
Brief historic stop on Bruny Island
Search for Bennett's white wallaby
Scenic drive through Mount Mangana rainforest
Enter South Bruny National Park
Guided tour of Cape Bruny Lighthouse
Lunch at local cafe (own cost)
Visit Bruny Island Chocolate Company
Honey tasting at Bruny Island Honey
Visit Bruny Island Cheese Company
Fresh oyster tasting at Get Shucked Oysters
Walk or climb at The Neck isthmus
Return ferry crossing to Kettering
Return to Hobart hotel or meeting point

The Experience

The bus pulls away from your Hobart hotel before 7am, and within an hour you're standing at the ferry terminal in Kettering watching the water narrow between the mainland and Bruny Island. The crossing takes twenty minutes. Your guide—someone who's lived on or knows Bruny Island inside out—is already pointing out the shape of the coastline, the way the light hits the cliffs. This is a full day on the island, and it moves with purpose: there's the lighthouse to get to, the white wallabies to search for, the producers to visit, and the narrow isthmus at Truganini to navigate. You're not wandering on your own. Everything is timed, guided, included where it matters.

Cape Bruny Lighthouse is the centerpiece, and it's the reason you're here instead of somewhere else. Built in 1836, heritage-listed, and accessible only through this operator—Bruny Island Safaris holds the exclusive access. You climb 72 steps with a handrail to the balcony, where the original lens from 1903 is still there, still working, and the Southern Ocean spreads out below you in a way that makes the climb feel short. The museum visit comes first, then the climb, so you understand what you're looking at before you're standing in it. Children under 5 can visit the museum and walk the base, but the stairs are off-limits for them; everyone else goes up. The views from that balcony are the kind you think about months later.

Between the lighthouse and the ferry back, the day fills with the island's other essences. You'll search for Bennett's white wallaby—an albino wallaby found nowhere else—in the spots your guide knows from thousands of tours (sightings aren't guaranteed, but the guides know where to look). There's a scenic drive through temperate rainforest on the slopes of Mount Mangana, weather permitting. You stop at the Bruny Island Bread Fridges, a roadside institution where fresh bread sits in an unmanned fridge on the honour system—your own cost, but it's where locals get their morning tea. The Truganini Lookout at the isthmus gives you three options: 279 stairs to the top, a mid-level lookout, or a flat boardwalk to the beach, so you choose your own pace. South Bruny National Park entry is included in the tour price.

Lunch is your own cost at the local café, and then come the producers: Get Shucked Oysters, Bruny Island Cheese Co., Bruny Island Chocolate Company, and Bruny Island Honey. Honey tastings are included; the rest you buy if you want to. The chocolate and fudge, the cheese and produce, the oysters—they're all there, and your guide knows the stories behind each one. You're not rushed through; you're shown the best the island has to offer. The return ferry leaves Kettering in the late afternoon, and you're back at your Hobart hotel by around 5:30pm, having crossed water twice, climbed a lighthouse built before Australia was a nation, and eaten your way through a small island's worth of local makers.

What’s included

Hotel pickup and drop-off from over 20 Hobart locations.
return ferry fares between Kettering and Bruny Island.
expert guided commentary throughout the day from a local Tasmanian guide.
exclusive guided tour of Cape Bruny Lighthouse (the only operator in Australia with access).
Cape Bruny Lighthouse Museum visit.
South Bruny National Park entry.
honey tastings at Bruny Island Honey.
search for Bennett's white wallaby in the island's most reliable spots.
scenic drive through temperate rainforest on Mount Mangana.
visit to the Bruny Island Bread Fridges.
access to Truganini Lookout with three fitness options.
visits to Get Shucked Oysters, Bruny Island Cheese Co., and Bruny Island Chocolate Company (tastings and purchases at your own cost, except honey tastings which are included).

Good to know

Easy physical levelPets welcomeInfants must sit on laps

Operated by Bruny Island Safaris

Is this one for you?Book this if you want to see inside Cape Bruny Lighthouse without arranging your own transport, park entry, or timing—the exclusive access and full-day structure mean you get the island's main sights, the lighthouse, and the local producers all in one departure from Hobart.