ME TAKE WITH YOU //EDITION SPRING2015 NEW! KING ISLAND - MELBOURNE COMMENCING NOVEMBER 16 ODDBALL SAVES A FEATHERED COLONY OUR SPRING ISSUE 4 Flinders Island Produce 12 8 Fabulous Fishing in the Furneaux WELCOME 10 Flinders Island Music in the Vines 12 Waterfront Living Warrnambool elcome to the Spring edition connections. At the same time, there are many RESERVATIONS & 16 Oddball Dog Saves a Feathered Community of the Traveller. The magazine attractions on site at Essendon Fields with the ENQUIRIES 4 keeps expanding and we DFO Factory Outlet, the New World Whisky 19 Premier Speedway Warrnambool W CALL 1300 55 66 94 are very pleased to have long time Distillery, LaManna Supermarket, Bounce Inc 20 Magnificent Beaches Calling You contributors appearing alongside new as well as charter flights over Melbourne. 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Phone 5523 2287 VR1481677 2 / SHARP TRAVELLER sharpairlines.com.au facebook.com/sharpairlines twitter.com/sharpairlines SHARP TRAVELLER / 3 FEATURE STORY FLINDERS ISLAND FLINDERS ISLAND PRODUCE PREPARED JUST FOR YOU! linders Island Fresh is passionate are full to the brim with homemade local about working alongside innovative offerings and the best from the Tassie F growers and producers to create mainland. Check out the range on offer and seasonal niche products and this month sees order online at FlindersIslandFresh.com.au. the launch of a new range of local produce This month we are featuring three of our local hampers. producers whose products are included in the From breakfast provisions to ready made Flinders Island Fresh hampers. dinners, and plenty in between, the hampers 4 / SHARP TRAVELLER sharpairlines.com.au facebook.com/sharpairlines twitter.com/sharpairlines SHARP TRAVELLER / 5 Meet Jon Hizzard down, added to vinegar, garlic, sugar and salt, and then THE JUGGLER PRESENTS blended. What does Jon put the finished product on? “Everything!” Once a travelling juggler, Jon Hizzard now lives on A venture like Jon’s doesn’t come without its difficulties. Flinders Island juggling his responsibilities as a father, The realities of island life often make sourcing ingredients bus driver, teacher, gardener and professional chilli sauce difficult and, with the wild weather across Bass Strait, maker extraordinaire. It’s a life he had been searching for. growing conditions aren’t always ideal. Jon simply can’t Jon labels his love for chilli as an ‘addiction’ and believes grow as much as he would like. Yet his passion to create “chilli sauce can become a real moment.” While he has a cult product remains. With an influx of like-minded always been a fan of condiments and chilli, his idea to people on Flinders Island trying their luck in small take chilli sauce to the streets has only been recent. business ventures, Jon is inspired to extend his range. Jon takes pride in his work and his process takes you back to the way things used to be. His sauces are hand The Juggler Presents’ future looks made, hand bottled and use no preservatives or funny to involve chilli jams, harrisa and business. Nothing but the best organic ingredients smoked chilli sauces. Perhaps are featured, with many grown in Jon’s garden or even a shop one day. This is Meet Anne Maree Wilkins Meet Helen Carnell sourced from the Flinders Island community. Both one red hot cult that you ANNIE’S KITCHEN FURNEAUX COFFEE his fresh and dry chilli versions are simply cooked should jump on board. Talented chef and owner of Annie’s Kitchen, Anne Maree Helen Carnell spent many joyous holidays visiting Wilkins knows the way to your heart. Based at Mountain Flinders Island and wanted that same joy to be Seas Wilderness Retreat on Flinders Island, Annie experienced by her children. Helen relocated from spends her days delighting guests with her repertoire the coffee mecca of Melbourne, yet found the simple of homemade classics. It wouldn’t be difficult to fill the pleasures of fresh coffee, was something she couldn’t live pages of a cookbook with Annie’s recipes. Her expertise without. This launched a journey to bring the people of extends to jam, preserves, gourmet pies, cheese, bread Flinders Island freshly roasted, good quality and ethically and an array of meals destined to warm your soul. sourced coffee beans. Join her for a two-course dinner feast utilising the best Inspired by an article highlighting the lost art of simple produce Flinders Island has to offer. With all the fruit and coffee roasting. Helen fell in love with green beans and vegetables grown on the farm or by resident gardener the naked flame. Her homemade beer keg roaster saw Helen Cassidy, they are full of nutrition and as fresh as her through two years of experimental roasting. Helen they get. The evening menu is ever changing and reflects describes roasting beans as similar to cooking popcorn, the seasonal produce available on the day. Annie calls it just slightly more complex. The true art is mastering a surprise. the flavour profile, which Helen has perfected through explorative trial and error. Mountain Seas is not to be missed while visiting Annie’s Kitchen. Located on the southern side of the island, the Furneaux Coffee beans are precious. It’s important to property is an oasis for gardeners, artists and nature Helen that she knows where her beans come from. She lovers. Annie describes it as “wild, remote, calming, supports fair trade, organic green coffee beans and peaceful, spiritual and very personal.” Annie has always Australian chemical free green beans. The blend is a been a passionate and inventive cook. If she’s not baking special one. It includes beans from Indonesia, Papua New bread in terracotta pots, she’s nutting out a new fig and Guinea, East Timor and a small plantation in northern vanilla jam to pair perfectly as a duck and lamb glaze. Her New South Wales. “I like dealing with the Australian approach of quality over quantity is a breath of fresh air plantations because you know exactly what you’re and one we encourage you to experience yourself. getting.” Helens Furneaux Coffee Island blend embodies a mix of half Australian and half International beans. One cup of Furneaux Coffee captures the essence and flavours of the whole world. The launch of Furneaux Coffee has created a buzz throughout the community and has brought a Flinders Island coffee culture of its own. Helen’s beer keg roaster has since retired and a commercial roaster is now making life easier. Judging from the local hype, Furneaux coffee is set for a bright future. 6 / SHARP TRAVELLER sharpairlines.com.au facebook.com/sharpairlines twitter.com/sharpairlines SHARP TRAVELLER / 7 CREATING AN EXPERIENCE “We can set up a barbecue so that you can eat your catch when you catch it!” says Chris, licking his lips! “Or you Chris emphasises the importance of caring for the may like to try some of our other cuisine such as wallaby environment that offers up such a unique experience. steaks, local lamb, Cape Barren Goose or some of the “We prefer to look after our fisheries, promoting catch and famous Rockjaw sausages.” Morning, afternoon teas and release fishing. Digital photos are taken of your fishing lunches can also be provided along with picnic lunches experience, including your catch, to tell your friends and dinners, tea, coffee and eskies and ice for other about.