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Montague Island Tours provides
visitors with the chance to explore this unique NSW south coast destination
- Montague Island Nature Reserve - through regular
half day (3-4 hr) offshore
adventures or the opportunity to stay
overnight in the island's accommodation in the restored Head
Lighthouse Keeper's Quarters.
Whichever experience you choose, it will include:
• thousands of years
of Aboriginal heritage
• over 125 years of lighthouse history
• the surrounding marine environment including the East Australian
Current
• NSW's largest Little Penguin colony
• NSW's largest fur seal colony, with up to 1000 on the rocks
in spring
• seasonably variable wildlife - always something different
• NPWS management and conservation projects on
the island
• spectacular scenery
Access to Montague Island Nature Reserve is provided by a local
charter operator from Narooma's Town Wharf.
The 9km trip takes around 30-40 minutes and is an adventure
and educational experience in its own right with the great variety of marine
life to be seen in the area....
seabirds, whales depending on the season.
Year-round, the Island's Fur Seals are
viewed up-close during your boat trip.
The Island is a significant feature of the Batemans Marine Park and an
iconic destination for travellers to the NSW south coast and the beautiful
Eurobodalla Shire.
Due to the island's Nature Reserve status,
a Montague Island Tour is definitely the ONLY way
to be able to venture ashore to experience this unique destination...
Montague Tours are twice winners of Australian
Ecotourism Tourism Awards, as well as 4 NSW State Tourism Awards, and an
international IUCN/British Airways "Tourism for Tomorrow" Award.
In 2008 the Tours won membership of the NSW Tourism HALL OF FAME for winning
three consecutive awards in the Ecotourism category.
Photos: Inger Vandyke, Narooma Charters, Tommy Salmon,
www.geoffcomfort.com, Adrienne Vukovic, NPWS, and the many friends of Montague
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