Dust off the plane... TAS Border to reopen soon!

Tasmanian Government has announced they will reopen their borders to all non-essential travel on the 27th November 2020. Yes that means surfers can come to King Island again - bloody yew!!! After a long hiatus of doing sweet f@#k all… we are now flat out taking bookings & enquiries! We are accepting refundable deposits if you want to hold some dates. Check out our calendar for availability. Drop us an email or call to book or in you have any questions. Thanks for everyones support - stoked to be back!

Tasmanian border update

Published 18 August 2020

The Tasmanian Government has announced that current border restrictions to non-essential travel will remain in place until at least 1 December 2020.

The current border restrictions will remain to allow sufficient time for the COVID-19 situation in Victoria to be controlled, ensure all required planning, monitoring and response capabilities are in place, as well as to allow Tasmanian communities and local businesses to prepare for possible border relaxations.

Border re-openings will continue to be dependent on the situation in other jurisdictions and further information will be provided when it is available.

For more information visit https://coronavirus.tas.gov.au/travellers-and-visitors/coming-to-tasmania

COVID-19 Update.

The plane is parked, the office is open, and the waves are still pumping.

Due to the current ongoing COVID-19 restrictions which is preventing all 'non-essential travel' we have had to park the bird in the hanger, giving her engines a overhaul and a bit of TLC. However, our office is still open and we are still accepting new bookings for later this year and 2021.

For all our current bookings scheduled from today to the 1st July 2020, we ask you to contact us to reschedule your bookings to a date later in the year. (In the event that restrictions are ongoing we will continue to offer you to reschedule you booking to a future date.)

We ourselves will be using this time to make sure we improve our services as well as offering you new remote surf destinations around OZ to explore. We look forward seeing you when travel restrictions are lifted and we commence operations again.

If you have any questions please feel free to email or call Eddie to discuss. In the meantime please look after yourself and each other.

All the best, Eddie and Anatole

Travel advice - COVID-19 Virus

Currently there are NO restrictions for travellers flying to King Island. Any travellers coming from overseas however are required to self isolate for a minimum of 14 days before travelling in Australia. If you have come from a region that is at high or moderate risk for COVID-19, or think you may have been in close contact with a confirmed case of coronavirus should monitor their health closely and seek immediate medical advice before travelling.

Go to www.health.gov.au/covid19-travellers for over-seas travellers.

Call your GP​

Visit the Emergency Department

Call Healthdirect 1800 022 222

For any passenger/prospective customer who may fall into the above category and are booked to travel with King Island Surf Safaris, please contact us so that we can rebook and place your fare in credit for future travel.

Your commitment, cooperation and protection of our community is appreciated.

Warrnambool... "now boarding".

King Island Surf Safaris have teamed up with South Coast Air to provide surf and flight packages to King Island directly from Warrnambool.

Our aircraft is based at Warrnambool Airport, which dramatically reduces your travel time. Flights direct from Warrnambool to King Island is approximately 45 minutes… saving you a day in transit, traffic, parking, buses, flight delays, lengthy check-in times, security screening, baggage check-in & collection, you get the picture… you end up surfing 1 day out of a 3 day weekend!

Our Piper Navajo twin engine charter aircraft based at Warrnambool and Portland airports can get you and your friends to any destination in Australia within the day, operating in all weather being a twin engine aircraft.

Our King Island Packages pricing is based on the entire aircraft, accomodation, 4WD, local surf advice, and maps of the island and surf locations.

The aircraft can take up to 7 passengers and their baggage in comfort, however we remove 2x seats to load your surfboards making the aircraft a maximum of 5 passenger capacity.

Not just limited to King Island, maybe you want to surf Flinders Island, Kangaroo Island, Lord Howe Island.. anywhere that has a runway in reasonable nick and is 1000 metres long is accessible to our Piper Navajo.

Call Eddie on 0409 864 055 to get an idea of where, how much and when we can help you get somewhere. Fast.