Description

• Dates & Duration: 21st February – 26th February 2022, 6 days, 5 nights
• Status: 4 places have become available
• Activities: Sea kayaking, hiking, camping.
• Leaders: Tim Cope & Toby Story
• Trip Rating: Moderately challenging
• Experience Required: Suits beginners and intermediate paddlers. General fitness for kayaking and hiking required. Paddling experience not required but conditioning and practice for paddling recommended. Longest hike is a 12-14km return to Mount Graham or Mount Freycinet (however please note that all hiking is optional). Longest potential paddling without break on shore is 18km. Difficulty can vary according to the weather and sea conditions.
• Location Freycinet Peninsula, Tasmania, Australia.
• Cost: $2700

Overview

Join adventurers and guides, Toby Story and Tim Cope for a unique paddle and hiking journey on Tasmania’s spectacular Freycinet Peninsula. This is an expedition style journey, meaning it is tent based and we will be carrying everything we need in our kayaks.

Arguably the site of one of Australia’s most iconic national parks, Freycinet is renowned for its turquoise water, white sandy beaches and secret coves framed by dramatic granite mountains. On this very special journey you will be paddling to Schouten Island, exploring the remote eastern coastline, and hiking to Mt Freycinet, the highest point on the peninsula.

The peninsula itself is part of the traditional lands of the Toorernomairremener people. It was here that the people overwintered, harvesting the rich array of shellfish and sea vegetables. Our journey will include a special welcome to country ceremony, in which we will be given an introduction to the history and culture of Tasmania’s first peoples.

$50 of your trip payment will be donated to the Bob Brown foundation to support a campaign to protect the cultural and natural values of the Takayana (Tarkine) region.

The departure and end point of this journey is Hobart. We encourage you to consider combining this trip with our Bruny Island, and Tasman peninsula journeys which will also involve Tim Cope and Toby Story. These trips follow on from Freycinet.

This journey is suitable for those people with a sense of adventure, and who are interested in immersion in a truly remote. The level of challenge can vary according to the weather and sea conditions.