Bruny Island Ferry

Bruny Island Ferry: one way in, one way out.
But seriously, for most of us, if we’re wanting to get to Bruny Island… this is our only way. The Mirambeena’s the double-​decker and the Bowen’s the single-​level ferry, drive your car on board and park it where the high-​vis types are pointing. Turn the engine off and then you can either sit inside your car like a party pooper or crawl out onto the deck to carouse around for the fifteen minutes it takes to get to the other side.
The best way to head to Bruny is with a car full of friends, so not only can you have a grand time together on the island, but you can split the cost of the ferry, as it’s a per-​car charge and not a headcount charge.
Bonus: put your smallest friend in the boot for even cheaper splitting.
(Don’t really do that; that’s illegal.)
Note: the address and the map pin are both ridiculously off the mark for stupid reasons, Unilocal.The Bruny Island ferry goes back and forth between the marina in Kettering and the tip of Bruny island every day, whether their administration office is in Glenorchy or not (I think this has been the reasoning I’ve been given when attempting to amend the listing in the past) it’s a bit silly to have that listed as the location.

Unless you’re a really great swimmer, you don’t have much choice other than to get the ferry when you want to visit Bruny Island. Luckily, it’s reasonably priced, efficient and actually pretty fun!
A return trip in a small car will cost $ 30. Drive to the Kettering dock, where you will line up in lanes waiting for the ferry to arrive. Once cars are offloaded, you drive on up and shortly thereafter you are on your way, 15 minutes by water, to one of the most serene and beautiful places you may ever visit.
We drank Moo Brew on the upper deck and stood in the sunshine, pretending we were characters from The Titanic (you know, the «I’m on top of the world!» bit, not the sinking dying bit). It was a really great way to mark the next part of our holiday.
A word of warning: if you’re trying to arrive or leave Bruny Island on a particularly busy day (say, the last day of a long weekend) then you need to arrive at the ferry well in advance to ensure you get a spot. When leaving the island, we arrived only 5 minutes beforehand to realise we wouldn’t be able to make the next departure. Not to worry, we sat in the sun and enjoyed he surroundings for an hour while we waited for the ferry to go back and forth to Hobart, but had our flights back to Melbourne been any earlier we would have missed them.