From Kettering, which is just a 40-minute drive away from Hobart, ferries can be embarked upon for Bruny Island. This short journey brings another dramatic change in landscape. It’s all blue sky and beach. And the Bruny Island Cruises that set out from here, reveals an abundance of sea life. Dolphins, seals, albatross, sea eagles, and migrating whales are new friends you’re likely to meet, between some of the highest sea cliffs, kelp forests, and deep sea caves, in the southern hemisphere. Bruny Island itself, once home to a robust whaling industry is rife with small-scale manufacture. Here a cheese shop, there is an oyster farm, so explore. Everywhere you will find delicious and potent leatherwood honey on sale. It appears that to eat well on Bruny in particular and Tasmania in general, is the realistic expectation of the majority and not a privilege of the few.