King Island

The world's best everything...

Although it's remote and girt by furious seas King Island isn't that kind of wild but it is very very natural and offers many serenely natural things to do.

By your second day in Currie, the capital, people greet you by name, by the third day you'll be halfway to becoming a connoisseur of the world's most famous cheeses, creams, and beef. Come Day 4 you'll be recognising individual cows among the thousands munching the world's richest grass, watered by the world's purest water in the world's purest air.

The air has been certified purest by the CSIRO and cloud juice falling through the world's cleanest air must be the world's purest rain, right? It certainly tastes different. Less certain but as wild is the legend that King Island grass is cows' delight because it descended from English seed washed ashore in the hay-stuffed mattresses of shipwrecked migrants.

You can also hike, hunt almost everything provided you buy a licence and it's not a cow; the fish are just waiting for you.

Then there's the island's fantastic dancing seaweed chefs, its wildly popular racing calendar, its unique Melbourne to Grassy yacht race AND its classic Imperial 20 footrace.