Remote Tasmania with Lewis & Clark

We focus on three core areas: east-coast islands Maria and Bruny; the Central Plateau lake system; and the temperate rainforests of tarkanya. From our first home base of Hobart, we spend the first two full days taking day trips to the islands of Maria and Bruny. Both are wildlife-rich, giving us great chances to see our first wombats, echidnas, and wallabies. Crossing inland to the southern part of the interior uplands situates us among some of the world’s tallest eucalypt forests and, at higher elevations, sweeping moors dotted with alpine lakes and Gondwanan rock formations. The cool, temperate rainforests of tarkanya have been home to the Northwest Aboriginal people for tens of thousands of years. This wilderness area supports robust populations of mammals, including the devils, which we have a chance of seeing with a specialist guide. Along the north coast, admire large congregations of penguins and shearwaters before we visit a reliable site for seeing a Duck-billed Platypus. The tour concludes on a high point (literally) with a return to the Central Plateau, this time its northern reaches at Cradle Mountain.

Study Leader Greta Binford and two of Tasmania’s top wildlife guides are along for the journey, which takes you through moss-covered forests, scintillating waterfalls, and some of the most intact ecosystems on the planet.