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28Oct

A picture’s worth a thousand words

The sea in Adventure Bay on Bruny Island has taken on an amazing turquoise quality over the past week or so due to the lack of recent rains. It’s quite mesmerising to drive the length of the bay with this glowing jewel beside you. The white sands of the region cause this amazing colour. Definitely…

23Oct

Bruny Island Cider – available spring 2015

This exciting development adds another flavour to the delicious palate of Bruny Island. Register your interest now at the Bruny Island Cider website. Follow them on Facebook by clicking here! Bruny Island … oysters, cheese, beer, cider, lamb! What next?

22Oct

The Bruny Island ferry problem – solved?

The first peak day of the new season has seen many visitors disappointed at not being able to get to Bruny Island. Some, including a couple of our guests, were booked onto the Bruny Island Cruise being picked up by Pennicott Wilderness Journey’s bus at the Kettering office. The bus was unable to board the…

11Oct

Bruny … or should that be Brewny?

We love entrepreneurship and the pioneers on Bruny continue to deliver. Bruny Island cheesemaker, Nick Haddow, is moving into brewing with the development of a brewery at his site in Great Bay. In his words: Why we want a brewery… We’re obsessed with fermentation. We love traditional, handmade beers. Beer and cheese are perfect ancient…

06Oct

Bruny Island Lighthouse tours

Finally it’s possible to visit the Bruny Island lighthouse and have a guided tour … right to the top. Bruny Island Safaris are now running fully guided tours of this historic outpost and it’s definitely worth the trip. The lighthouse, commissioned in 1838, played a significant role in preventing shipping disasters. Bruny Island Safaris offers…

27Sep

Signal Station start to the day

For us, a leisurely breakfast on a Sunday morning is the only chance we really have to sit back and unwind. After running family members to the airport this morning we decided to stop off on the way back to Kettering to eat breakfast at the Signal Station Brasserie at Mount Nelson. This well known…

11Sep

Spring has sprung … Bruny style!

The garden at Parnella Adventure Bay has never been particularly wallaby proof. At this time of the year our garden becomes a virtual nursery with local mums gathering to enjoy the peace and relative safety the garden offers.

01Sep

Mining the magic at Coal Point

Heading home to Kettering from Parnella Adventure Bay yesterday, we were able to stop and get some shots of a nice little bit of action at Coal Point. According to the Magicseaweed web site; “Coal Point is Bruny’s best pointbreak providing there is a strong pulse of SE swell. Hairy lefts unload over rock and…

30Aug

Red Velvet Breakfast

We woke up this morning bright and early, said “brrrr” to each other then decided it was time for brekky. We considered our normal toast and coffee but instead opted to jump in the car, drive to Cygnet and try the revamped Red Velvet Lounge. The café made famous by Steve Cumper was devastated by…

10Aug

Do You Like Chocolate?

If you do, you absolutely owe it to yourself to call into Nutpatch in Kettering. In an unassuming shop on the Channel Highway is a treasure trove of the finest chocolate crafted by hand, filled with luscious and memorable centres. Nutpatch is worth the drive from Hobart as it’s the home of one of the…

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Parnella Adventure Bay … super

Thank you for providing such a clean, comfortable, cosy house for us to stay in. We walked the Labillardiere Peninsula, ate spectacular seafood at the Hotel Bruny and saw penguins at the rookery on the Neck. The rangers at the rookery were trying to explain to other visitors where to find albino wallabies. We felt very smug knowing they were just in the garden at Parnella. We will definitely be coming back next time we are down this way.

Catherine and Sophie, ACT. 16 Dec 2015

Parnella Adventure Bay … stress buster

Dear Jonathan and Sue. Thank you. After spending a week at Parnella, a whole year’s worth of ‘Sydney stress’ has just melted away. The cottage was just perfect. We have never seen so much wildlife whilst seated on the sofa. Bruny is just beautiful and coming back each day after exploring the island was lovely. Our son took great delight in feeding the sheep and saying hello to the endless wallabies and birds.

Thanks again.

Donald, Virginia and Rōnin. 10 Jan 2016

Parnella Adventure Bay … a lovely place for us

And we really liked the cute sheep. We really enjoy the feeding time. Also, we are surprised to see the white wallabies. The information provided are very useful. We are really happy living here. Thanks for the good environment and comfortable house.

Happy Chinese New Year! 8 Feb 2016

Parnella Adventure Bay – AWESOME

Thank you for a wonderful 6 days of bliss! A beautiful cottage and you have thought of everything. We loved the privacy and the spas. Such a treat to share our afternoons with all the cute little wallabies, especially the white ones and the sheep and the birdlife. Local wines and cheeses are superb. We are dreading going back to the QLD heat. We will be back and we will be recommending the cottage to our friends.

Thanks guys.

Deb and Brad. 15/2/16

Parnella Kettering – “Great spot”

We stayed in the 1 bedroom Bloomsbury Cottage. It was lovely. It is in a quiet spot not far from the main road and an easy commute to Hobart 20-30 min. and a short drive 5-10 min from the Bruny Island Ferry. The bed was super comfy, the heater was warm and the bathroom big, modern and clean. A nice touch was a knee rug for extra cosiness. Would definitely stay again and will recommend to anyone traveling in this area.

Hermitage123 South Australia

Parnella Kettering – “Blissful couples retreat.”

My bride and I stayed for 3 nights in Parnella Kettering’s “Bloomsbury Cottage”…absolute bliss. Sue and Jon ? Take a bow. Your service is excellent. Great bed …soft pillows…large fluffy white towels…( there were 2 spare towels as well!!) and self catering was a breeze due to some thought being applied to the provision of an extensive range of utensils…as well as a BBQ which was clean and in working condition. All of the wish boxes are ticked here!! delightful sunny deck …absolutely private without being isolated … and there’s more !! We stayed in 14 locations over Tasmania in 52 days and our yardstick was simple…”would we stay there ever again?”
Emphatically ” Yes”

Saxafun Brisbane, Australia

Parnella Adventure Bay – “Sublime Location”

This was one of the loveliest holiday homes we have stayed in. Equal to anything overseas. Brilliant communication with the owners made it super easy to settle in quickly. Extremely well appointed, very neat home, with quality furnishings, beautiful linen, a kitchen that had everything, laundry facilities, spa, and very cosy to boot with the added bonus of spring flowers, incredible birds and wildlife, the white wallaby and the cute sheep. We explored a huge portion of Bruny and, on the suggestion of the owners, we took a couple of the quite amazing walks. The cottage is within walking distance to the beach, it was easy to stroll down the road and enjoy the peace of those blue waters. Thank you for sharing your home with us. We will recommend it highly and hope that we can come back again soon.

nonnacookbooker Hobart, Australia

Parnella Adventure Bay – “Great little cottage!”

Would highly recommend this cottage. The place was spotless, cozy, and quiet. Exactly what we were looking for. Enjoyed having the wallabies hanging out in the back yard. Kitchen had all the equipment we needed. The bedrooms were nice, and beds very comfortable. Enjoyed taking the fishing rods down to the jetty and catching squid. Worked well for a weekend away, and we would stay again.

NateVan111 Vancouver, Canada

Parnella Adventure Bay – “A peaceful retreat we didn’t want to leave”

Bruny Island is such a special place and now we have discovered Parnella! This cottage had everything we wanted and more for our stay. A comfortable cottage with everything you need for self-catering. So much to appreciate in the cottage grounds from bird life to the ever present Bennetts wallabies and to our delight the white wallabies every day of our stay. We have stayed in Adventure Bay before this trip but not at Parnella. We will definitely be hoping to stay at Parnella again.

ahaysom Melbourne, Australia

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