A tale of two islands

Brisbane Times -

Flinders Island and King Island are like chalk and cheese: the chalky white beaches of Flinders Island and the renowned cheeses of King Island. Though they share latitude and are in Bass Strait, there's little else that's alike. The islands offer vastly different travel experiences.

In a nutshell, you travel to King Island for the finer things in life and to Flinders Island for the fitter things in life. Flinders is about adventure; King is about appetite.
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The defining feature on Flinders Island is its landscape - wherever you look it is gorgeous - while on King Island you must seek the true beauty spots. Flinders is gift-wrapped in inviting beaches and headlands ablaze in orange lichen. Hills pierce every horizon, culminating in the 782-metre-high Strzelecki Peaks rising above the pin-up-perfect coast at Trousers Point. Viewed from sea level, it's a sea-meets-summit scene at least the equal of Tasmania's infinitely more famous Wineglass Bay.

The Strzelecki Peaks offer Flinders' prime outdoor opportunity, with a bushwalking trail winding up the slopes to the mountains' exposed summit. The climb traverses rainforest and bare rock. At the end of the two- to three-hour walk comes the best view Bass Strait has to offer, staring out over Trousers Point - its waters as clear as a lap pool - and across the sea as far as Ben Lomond on the Tasmanian mainland.

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