Fishing Tours, Cape York, Thursday Island and Torres Strait Trips and Family Holidays

On your next holiday, do you want to:

(a) laze on uninhabited islands and swim in azure seas?:
(b) fish for coral trout, mackerel, trevally, blue tusk fish, nannygai, fingermark, cobia and more?;
(c) visit historic sites and interesting places?;
(d) all of the above?

Then Tony's Island Adventures can offer you an exciting experience.

Explore Torres Strait and Thursday Island with local Tony Titasey who draws on his thousand year seafaring ancestry in doing what he loves best: fishing and meeting people. Formerly a merchant seaman and a commercial fisherman. Tony has realised a long held dream to operate a fishing charter and island tour enterprise. Naturally, he finds it very difficult to call this 'a job'. As if taking clients on fishing trips most days is not enough, he spends every day off fishing, arguing to his wife that these trips are actually 'research' and must be made for professional reasons.

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Tony is the first and only Islander charter business operator on Thursday Island.

Tony's Island Adventures offers a range of fishing charters and island adventures, from full and half day fishing trips to Friday Island Pearl Farm Tours to island bush walks to sunset cruises and much much more. Tony is flexible in what trips are available and encourages clients tailor their own island adventures.

Tony's adventures are conducted in the M.V. Madam Dugong, a fully licensed and surveyed 5.9 metre fibreglass vessel.

Thursday Island, or T.I. as it is known by locals, is the gateway to the Torres Strait, an expanse of sapphiric seas dotted with approximately 100 islands, 17 of which are communities. Owing to the cross-cultural relationships in the Torres Strait over the past 160 years Torres Strait Islanders are a good looking people with strong features, some suggesting an Asian heritage, though dark skinned and wavy haired and some European and Pacific Islander ancestry. Torres Strait Islanders have always maintained a close connection with their islands and theirsea. Culture and tradition are integral part of their lives, despite the western influences.

Torres Strait as we know it today was settled by Asians, Pacific Islanders and Europeans in the 1840s with the rise and rise of the pearling industry. Tony's father, grandfather and great-grandfather (who operated a fleet of luggers that were all lost in the 1899 cyclone) were all pearl divers. From the mid-twentieth century, pearling was no longer viable due to the increasing use of plastic for buttons.

Tony spent some time cray, mackerel and line fishing which are the principal economies of the Torres Strait today.

T.I. is the northernmost administrative settlement of Australia and boasts an amazing array of services, government departments and amenities (including two three-star hotels, four pubs and bowls and boat clubs, eight churches,not to mention five playgrounds). Some outlets of interest are:

• A fabulous supermarket, IBIS (so named after the bird)
• A photo shop
• A mini-department store and top rate clothes shop
• A must see souvenir and t-shirt shop
• A first-rate art and pearl gallery in which Tony's wife, Cate, exhibits her pastel paintings
• Post office and National Bank
• Internet cafe
• Recently opened Gab Titui Cultural Centre displaying artifacts collected by Haddon in the 1890s
• The Gateway Resort and World War II museum on Horn Island

Like most small communities, T.I. has a closeknit community of some 4000 people who observe the cultural tradition of 'T.I. time', being laid back and not stressing out unnecessarily like our city siblings are apt to do.

Tony suggests a five night/four day visit to T.I. with a stay at the Jardine Motel which offers luxury and budget accommodation. This would enable you to enjoy three days of fishing and/or island adventures (or camping!) and one day exploring T.I. and Horn Island (the war museum and Horn Island tour is a highlight). Tony has five children ranging from 15 months to 23 years so is very keen to ensure that families enjoy their holidays. T.I has a ring road of only five kilometers so you will be able to walk everywhere. Click here to view a sample of our avaliable tours Click here to make an enquiry or to contact us

Tony's Island Adventures
10 Pearl Street
Thursday Island
ABN 72 014 139 367
Telephone (07) 40 691 965 International +61 7 40 691 965
Mobile 0428 514 193 International +61 428 514 193
Email info@tonysislandadventures.com.au

"Tony Island Adventures specialises in Cape York, Thursday Island and Torres Strait Island fishing tours, trips and family holidays"

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