Flinders Island (Map of area) is the biggest island in a chain of islands called the Furneaux Group, in Bass Strait, off the NE corner of Tasmania. On the way you need to cross the notorious Banks Strait, where currents can sweep you miles off course, but this is one of our favourite areas for sea kayaking. The numerous islands and their clean white beaches make this a canoeing paradise, Did you know that the first settlement in Australia outside Sydney, was in the Furneaux Group, on Preservation Island? The early history, the fishing, the granite rock formations, the wild life, the tides, and the remoteness all add up to a top place to paddle.
Many trips have been done in this area, these are some of them:
Flinders Island 1978 ,
It was circumnavigated by a group of three in 1981,
Flinders Is to Tasmania 1982
Grant's Epic 1987 ,
another visit in 1995.
John Hyndman and Rex Brown   and  Laurie Ford . each wrote reports on the 1998 trip.
Prime Seal Island, and Flinders Is. Jan, 1999 .
Laurie Ford went there in Jan 2001.
A 63 year old Grandmother paddled across in February 2002.
She went there again in March 2003, but didn't really mean to.
And yet again in Feb/March 2004