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| • Sleeping bags | $ 15.00 for the entire safari |
| • Sheet | $ 5.00 for the entire safari | • Pillows | $ 5.00 for the entire safari |
| • Towel | $ 5.00 for the entire safari |
| • Single tent | $ 70.00 for the entire safari |
| • Camp beds | $ 6.00 per day, with a maximum of $ 60.00 |
FERRY TO THURSDAY ISLAND
The M.V. Strait Magic heralds a new era in passenger comfort, offering fast cruising in air-conditioned luxury. Seating is also available on the sun decks. Enjoy your Captains' comprehensive commentary and view a variety of local footage on video in the main cabin. Cost: Day Trip $ 116.00 pp (fuel levy may apply)
THURSDAY ISLAND BUS TOUR
There is probably no other place in Australia with a history longer or more colorful than that of Torres Strait. This T.I. Tour takes you to places the ordinary tourist could not hope to cover by foot in a single day. Stops include the Torres Strait Museum, Japanese Pearl Divers Memorial, and Green Hill Fort. Your local guides commentary takes you on a journey from the early, pre Europeans days, to the discovery of pearl shell, local involvement in wartime conflicts and on through to today's main primary industry Crayfishing and T.I.s pivotal role as the government administrative Centre. Cost: $ 31.00 pp (fuel levy may apply)
HORN ISLAND TOUR
Just across the Harbour from Thursday Island is Horn Island. Here you join a WWII Tour designed to reveal the vital role Torres Strait played in Australia's northern defense.
Evidence of Horn Island as a strategic WWII Airbase can be found across the island in the form of old trenches, taxi ways and gun sites. Also included is a visit to a private WWII Museum. Lunch at Gateway Resort is a mouth-watering buffet featuring local fare. Cost: $ 102.00 pp (Includes buffet lunch, WWII Tour, Museum and return boat transfer from Thursday Island.) (fuel levy may apply)
TWO ISLAND TOUR
The two Island tour includes your ferry to Thursday Island. Upon arrival a local guide will escort you on a tour of discovery around historic T.I. (see TI Bus Tour description above). Just across the harbour is Horn Island, here you’ll enjoy a mouth- watering buffet style luncheon at a small resort. After lunch you have time to visit a WWII Museum before heading out on a bus tour to visit the many WWII relics strewn across Horn Island. Your tour concludes with a return boat ride to T.I. where you connect with the ferry back to your campsite on the mainland. This is a perfect opportunity to visit both islands in one day. Cost: $ 249.00 pp(fuel levy may apply)
HORN ISLAND OPTIONAL EXTRA DAY
You will have the option to add a day to your Cape York Safari. This day includes:
A tour of Horn Island, lunch and entry to the WWII museum
Accommodation at The Gateway Resort at Horn Island with ensuite facilities
Dinner and breakfast
This option is available to Cape York Safaris that fly to and from Thursday Island and does not include accommodation transfers.
Cost: $ 260.00 per person on twin share basis, $ 345.00 for sole use
WEIPA MINE TOUR
A fascinating and informative tour of this enormous open cast mining site and the remote mining town of Weipa. The tour covers just about everything you might want to know about the Western Cape Region and its history plus a comprehensive insight into the whole process of mining and a chance to see the enormous mining equipment, trucks, locomotives and other plant used on the 2,590 square Km. Site.
The tour takes approximately 2.5 hours and costs $ 30.00 pp
The Largest Bauxite Mine in the World
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