Tell me about tours on Corner Inlet and around Wilsons Prom
South Gippsland Hovercraft operates tours on Corner Inlet both by boat and hovercraft. When the tide is out and the sand flats are exposed to bird life and the large pools of water hold huge fish in isolation until the next tide rise the hovercraft is the best mode of transport.
Hovercraft tours extend for kilometres along the remote beaches of the sand islands, which have been declared as nature reserves because of the need to protect the koalas, kangaroos, wallabies and small Hog Deer, which abound on the islands.
When the tide is out you can walk the wide beaches forever and not see another person.
There are many beautiful places along the shores of Wilsons Promontory (the 'Prom'), particularly those protected, small pretty beaches on Corner Inlet such as Freshwater Cove, Chinaman Beach and Tin Mine cove where the township of Seaforth was located to service the Tin miners on the Prom.
The tiny fresh water stream of Freshwater cove is of note because it contains small fresh water fish and marine life in pools just before it disappears into the sand at the waters edge. In high summer one must be careful at night because large lizards and snakes come to feed on the frogs in the pools. No one has been bitten, but one must be careful.
Granite Island and Doughboy Island tower over the waters of Corner Inlet and serve as channel markers at high tide.
Drifting slowly on the waters of Corner Inlet. Near the Prom, Sea Eagles and Hawks drift on the air currents while dolphins and seals play around you.
Hundreds of Cormorants rest and sunbake on the huge channel markers while black swans dabble in the shallows around the shoreline of Corner Inlet.
Biddy's Cove is of note because in the early seafaring days, a group of fishermen left an aboriginal woman on this beach. She lived there in a cave for many years and sometimes at night, campers feel an eerie presence in the bush behind the Cove, some say it makes the hair stand up on the back of your neck.
Port Welshpool Boat Club holds an annual regatta to Biddys Cove to celebrate the arrival of Bass and Flinders to Corner Inlet. A picnic is held on arrival and some of the more historically minded residents tell stories of the area. It's a great day out.
You can enquire about the Regatta from the Port Welshpool Museum Society.
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