4 – day Tiwi Islands

Highlights

• Visit Munupi Arts and Crafts Centre at Pirlangimpi community on Melville Island
• Meet local Tiwi artists
• Full day Tiwi Tours tour at Nguiu on Bathurst Island
• Try some bush tucker
• Bare Sand Island

Prices include all meals, accommodation on board, all shore excursions and use of fishing gear, binoculars and other equipment aboard.

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Day 1
Embark at Cullen Bay Marina in Darwin at about 0800 for a briefing and prior to departure through the lock at 0900. We sail north to the Tiwi Islands and travel up the Apsley Strait which separates Bathurst Island and Melville Island. Our overnight anchorage is just south of the community of Pirlangimpi (Garden Point).

Day 2
Going ashore in the morning we will walk through the community to the Munupi Arts and Crafts Centre to meet with local Tiwi artists. Guests will have an opportunity to purchase art or craft from the Centre later in the day. Activities may include a visit to the local school, instruction in Tiwi painting and weaving, swimming in a fresh water waterhole, trying some bush tucker or just talking about Tiwi culture. We will return to the boat for sundowners and dinner and anchor a few miles south of the community, again in the calm waters of Apsley Strait.

Day 3
We will motor south along the Apsley Strait, stopping at the largest community in the Tiwi Islands at Nguiu, on Bathurst Island, where guests will join Tiwi Tours and visit the Tiwi Arts and Craft Centre. Our overnight anchorage is again in Apsley Strait.

Day 4
We set sail early in the morning to Bare Sand Island. There is ample opportunity to go ashore and walk around the island which is a well-known turtle nesting site. We have lunch at our anchorage at Bare Sand Island then sail back into Darwin late in the afternoon.

We finish the adventure by guests joining the crew for dinner at one of the many restaurants at Cullen Bay. Following dinner, guests will be returned to their CBD accommodation.

Each lady on board also receives a bouquet of locally grown orchids to take home as a memento of the journey.