WILSONS PROM, VIC TRAVEL
The sky is angry. Saltwater spittle stings my face as the boat hurtles across a monochrome sea greyer than the brooding clouds. The skipper kills the engine, and we drift alongside a granite boulder field extending across the ocean like a natural causeway to nowhere. About 12,000 years ago, this granite shelf was the start of a land bridge to Tasmania. Today, there's nothing beyond it but the cold, treacherous waters of Bass Strait.
If you've ever stood at the tip of Cape York in Qld, at Steep Point or Cape Byron (on the western and easternmost extremities of Australia), this is another one for your bucket list. South Point, the nondescript big toe on the windswept shores of Victoria's Wilsons Promontory, is the southernmost point of mainland Australia. To get here, you can either hoof it 19km on an overland trail or take the easy route and visit by boat. Cruises with Pennicott Wilderness Journeys () not only save you
