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Flinders Island

Lovely, lonely islands are all that remains above Bass Strait of the land bridge which so recently linked Tasmania and Victoria. Some islands, low and wave-washed, resemble sleeping sea monsters; others rise like craggy castles above the perilous seas. Largest island in Bass Strait is Flinders, part of Australia's earliest history of shipwrecks, sealers, Straitsmen and Tasmanian Aborigines, who were brought for so-called sanctuary to Wybalenna - now a proclaimed Historic Site.

Today Flinders has some 1000 inhabitants, mostly farmers and fishermen, one of the busiest airports in Tasmania and the magnificent Strzelecki National Park. There are over 400km of good roads, the Strzelecki Track and the Flinders Scenic Trail (100km) for walkers and horse riders; a "zoo at large" of native animals; golf, bowls, tennis, team sports; beautiful beaches and gourmet seafoods, including crayfish, scallops and abalone.

For several years Jean Edgecombe has paid regular flying visits (with her husband Gordon at the controls of a small aircraft) to gather from many sources the information condensed into this book.

 

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