Come and stay with Wendy at Flinders Island Gourmet Retreat, Cooma House, at historic Badger Corner on Flinders Island. This guest house offers hosted accommodation and provides an ideal location from which to spend a week exploring the most historic and interesting island in Bass Strait. Cooking schools are a specialty too so if you […]
CAUTION DRIVERS – Any traffic coming along Lady Barron & Coast road just be careful as the Flinders Island Harriers are putting out the kilometre marking posts ready for the running festival this weekend. They are star steel pickets and have been painted yellow on top to make them more visible but, please be careful […]
Flinders Island Running Festival 31st August – 2nd September ONLY 1 WEEK TO GO!!! The Flinders Island Running Festival is all about getting out and having fun. The running festival started in 2007 as a community fun run and health promotion day and had grown every year since. The festival now includes the 42km Pub2Pub […]
St John Ambulance Australia Tasmania is heading to Flinders Island to conduct first aid training at the Flinders Island Council Chambers from the 17th to the 19th of September 2018. The following courses are available. 17th – HLTAID001 Provide cardiopulmonary resuscitation – 12:45pm – 4:30pm – $75 18th – HLTAID003 Provide first aid – 8:45am […]
… RESTAURANT CLOSURE… The Furneaux Tavern restaurant will be closed from Sunday 19th August until Friday 24th August. The Tavern will be undergoing floor renovations in the restaurant. Bar meals and Takeaway meals will be available during this time.
Looking for somewhere to watch the AFL Grand Final? Put on your footy colours and head on down to the Furneaux Tavern on 28th September! Free pre-game BBQ at 12:30 pm $4.00 pots from the start of the final siren. Heaps of prizes up for grabs throughout the day.
FLINDERS COUNCIL CITIZEN OF THE YEAR AWARD Nomination forms are now available from the Council Office and on the Council website for people wishing to nominate an individual for the Flinders Council Citizen of the Year Award. The award will be presented at the Flinders Island Show on 19th October. Please submit your nomination to […]
Flinders Island Show Society news…….. With 10 weeks until the Show now is the time to start planning some of the entries you may wish to enter. The Preliminary Home Industries schedule is available at Bowmans newsagency with all the information about entering and sections. Extracts will be put into Island News in coming issues […]
An update from Jo & Tom Youl from the August 3rd Island News. We would like to let the community know we are full steam ahead with the Wharf Shed project. The activities will include demolition of the existing shed in August and for the build to commence at the end of August/beginning of September. We will […]