We could not visit Tasmania without spending a day with our friend David Conceição in Bruny Island.
David took us through the most spectacular trip along the Bruny Island coastline south of Adventure Bay where David lives.
Adventure Bay has been a very popular place all throughout Tasmania history. All the famous explorers such as Abel Tasman (1642), Captain Tobias Furneaux (the one who named the bay in 1773), Capitan Cook (1777), William Bligh ( famous in HMS Bounty in 1788 and again in 1792 in the HMS Providence), Bruni d'Entrecasteaux, Matthew Flinders (tried to enter the bay in 1798 but bad weather prevented him) been there. During the early 19th century it was the site of a whaling station, and during the 19th and 20th century it was used by the timber industry. In 2011 The Costas, Teixeiras and Conceição joined the list of the famous people that braved the Adventure Bay... not bad!!!
The coastline with its escarpments, caves, underwater kelp forests, blow holes is breathtaking… and to top it all out we did two dives and collected some of the most famous delicacies of Tassie: crayfish and abalones.
We finished with a scrumptious brunch at David’s home that included wood fired pizzas, grilled crayfish and abalone in butter.
