Bruny Neck and Truganini Lookout

This 'neck' is a very narrow isthmus separating north and south Bruny Island. Safe and calm on the right and wild and open on the left. Of course I splashed around in the wild side!

Truganini was born on Bruny Island C 1812 and wrongly believed to be the last 'full' First Nations woman. She was a woman displaced (putting it nicely) by colonisation, being sent to Flinders Island and then onto Oyster Cove and passing away in Hobart in 1876. Truganini had requested for a decent burial from the authorities, asking for her ashes to be scattered in the D'Entrecasteaux Channel, the narrow strip of water separating Bruny Island from the mainland of Tasmania that we traveled through to get to Bruny Island, however this was denied in death. Truganini's skeleton was exhumed by the Royal Society of Tasmania with her skeleton being again disrespected and placed on display.

Truganini's skeleton and her cremation finally happened a century later with her ashes being scattered in the Channel.Read more