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Furneaux Freight Flinders Island

Furneaux Freight  Pty Ltd is a shipping company based in Bridport, Tasmania. Bridport is a small coastal town, which is a popular holiday destination. Bridport’s population is approximately 1350 people, but almost triples in summer. Bridport’s main industries are tourism, vegetable farming and fishing, specialling in scallops, crayfish and trout from Australia’s first fresh water […]

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FICR Website Island Visitor feedback

Flinders Island Visitors give their feedback about the new Flinders Island Car Rentals website ficr.com.au. Hello, and thank you for your newsy email.  Flinders still holds fond memories for both myself and husband.  We have no intentions in the near future to visit again, though we have already passed on information ..  to friends (and […]

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Flinders Island Salted Mutton-bird

After enjoying a large fat salted mutton-bird for lunch today Rowena can not wait to go mutton birding again, still 9 months to go. The mutton-bird or “short-tailed shearwater”,  is a yearly visitor to Flinders Island, Tasmania. Flying in around September the adult birds prepare their burrow, mate and lay their single egg in that burrow, in the many rockeries scattered around the […]

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Mt Strzelecki National Park & Walk

Mt Strzelecki National Park  is around 4216 hectares in total on Flinders Island, Tasmania. The national park is home to a variety of diverse ecosystems and landscapes. Named in 1972 after the Polish explorer & scientist Count Paul Edmund Strzelecki, who in 1842 climbed many of the peaks on Flinders Island. Mt Strzelecki is the highest mountain peak on Flinders Island. The […]

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