Kayaking Flinders Island: exclusive offer for newsletter subscribers

If the spectacular Flinders Island is on your bucket list, move it to the top now! Reg and Tory will be stationed on the island for three weeks in March guiding multi-day tours and we're offering this brand new tour at a special 25% discounted introductory rate for newsletter subscribers for bookings made before 28 February. Think blue water, long deserted beaches and mountains rising from the seas, birds overhead and sealife aplenty below. Two tour dates are available and numbers are limited so read on now here for more reasons to take to the water on Flinders.

Welcome Pip Layton to the Roaring 40°s team

Pip has joined our guiding team and brings many years experience as a Tasmanian outdoor guide. Importantly she's also recently completed her sea kayak qualifications! Pip has had a busy start to January with many trips along the Hobart waterfront, the Tasman Peninsula and exploring Hobart’s cliffs.

Five questions with Michael McGoldrick from Par Avion.

Michael is one of our amazing pilots flying us into the Southwest wilderness.

1. Our clients often say that you look too young to be a pilot. So how long have you been a commercial pilot and why did you take up flying?
I've been a commercial pilot for the last four years, although I first started flying as a 15 year old but took several years off between my private licence and my commercial licence while I completed university and traveled around the world.

2. What’s your favourite piece of Tassie to fly over and/or to?
Although it is where I fly the most, the Southwest of Tasmania would still be my favourite, it's just so unique and there really is no other landscape like it in Australia. A special mention must go to the Tasman Peninsula, the sea cliffs along the Capes are breathtaking.

3. What’s the most challenging airstrip in the state?
Oh that's a tricky one, I would have said Friendly Beaches on the East Coast in a strong crosswind but that has recently been upgraded. Hmm... perhaps Bronte Park in the Central Highlands in the winter months, boggy ground, sheep and turbulence off the nearby hill, always fun!

4. What do you enjoy most about taking people to the Southwest?
The reaction of a first time visitor, seeing their faces glued to the window of the plane as the landscape and ecosystem changes beneath them.

5. What’s your dream plane to fly?
To be honest I'm not much of a plane nerd, I'm happy to be flying anything!