The final expedition heads to Tasmania, a wild island hung off the south coast of Australia and home to some of the tallest sea cliffs on earth.
The Tasman Peninsula — Cape Pillar, Cape Hauy, Cape Raoul — throws up sheer dolerite columns that rise as much as 300 metres straight out of the ocean, among the highest sea cliffs in the Southern Hemisphere.
Inland is a compact wilderness of extremes: glaciated dolerite plateaus, temperate rainforest thick with moss and man-ferns, alpine moorland, quartzite ranges and hidden white-sand coves.
Cool temperate maritime, and famous for four seasons in a single day. Cold fronts roll straight off the Southern Ocean and the light is clean and low.
Our November window rides the warm-up from spring into summer — long, lengthening days and the most settled stretch of the Tasmanian year, though the island can still serve all four seasons in a single afternoon.
Vertical dolerite organ pipes dropping into churning sea, rainforest gullies dripping green, empty beaches with water the colour of the tropics, and highland tarns mirroring Cradle Mountain.
From the clifftops the Tasman Sea runs unbroken all the way to Antarctica.
Demanding, wild and a lot of fun — an expedition along some of the most dramatic coastline anywhere on the planet.