The Flinders Island Running Festival has been going for ten years. It is held on the last weekend in August and usually coincides with Father’s Day on the Sunday. One of my neighbours jokes that his daughter only comes, at this time of the year, to the Running Festival and not to see him. I however, know this is just plain wrong! That whole family, along with many others, participate in the fun atmosphere of the whole weekend and enjoy Father’s Day.

I recently had the pleasure of speaking with Debbie Clarke and Josie major as part of the Islander Way podcast series.. The series is part of the Islander Way regenerative tourism project being conducted on Flinders Island.

 There are wonderful things about Flinders Island that are not usually shown by the recent promotors who think that putting a drone up and showing our rocky crags or displaying dozens of crayfish ready to be cooked, is what we are all about.  I think we are about resilience, about toughness and about respect for the way things work best.

The Flinders Island Running Festival has been going for ten years. It is held on the last weekend in August and usually coincides with Father’s Day on the Sunday. One of my neighbours jokes that his daughter only comes, at this time of the year, to the Running Festival and not to see him. I however, know this is just plain wrong! That whole family, along with many others, participate in the fun atmosphere of the whole weekend and enjoy Father’s Day.

Flinders Island is the largest island in the Furneaux group of islands in the Bass Strait, just off the north east tip of the island of Tasmania. Cape Barren Island, or Truwana, is the second. Both these islands have wetlands of significant international importance and have been declared wild life sanctuaries under the Ramsar Convention