FAR EAST FLANEUR - DETAILS OF THE JOURNEY

ART + NATURE WALK / PADDLE / CYCLE
Monday 26 October – Friday 30 October
Depart Cape Conran any time Saturday 31 October, 2026.

(*plus - optional additional day prior to the journey on Sunday 25 October. make your own accommodation arrangements and join us at Iceworks Studio, Lakes Entrance for lunch with Josephine Jakobi + Gary Yelen. Also meet the FLOAT team, and the documentary makers who’ll be here to capture our story. we can help with planning for extra days if you want to join us)

DAY 0. SUNDAY 25 OCTOBER.
Watch here for details about an optional Sunday arrival.

DAY 1. MONDAY 26 OCTOBER

Meet at Lake Tyers Beach Tavern @ 10am. Welcome to Gunaikurnai Country - in Far East Gippsland. Meet our local artists, community leaders, poets, storytellers and nature lovers.
The Tav crew are opening specially for us with great coffee + croissants and a group check-in so we know more about you and the day ahead!
Start dawdling (with our local guide) to Lake Tyers House along the lake edge. Easy walk along this Ramsar-listed waterway.
We travel in small walking groups at the pace you enjoy. Admire the view. And the sounds (of birds) of course.
4.5km to Lake Tyers House for a picnic lunch in this special place.
LAKE TYERS HOUSE
‘Lake Tyers House was built in 1886 as a guest house, attracting nature lovers from far and wide. The owners invite us to share the isolated beauty of this special place.’ Sue Goding. It’s a unique story that few know about.

Our wild mentors @ Up the Creek will join us to Kayak an easy 2.5km to Trident Arm Wilderness Campground, with locals who love this place. Pitch tents. Flop.
Chef prepared dinner.
6 minute FROTH stories shared around the campfire. Or just curl up in your tent.
Camp @ Trident Arm.

DAY 2. TUESDAY 27 OCTOBER

Wake at Trident Arm for an early start. Share a help-yourself-breakfast with us all.
We will stop in a few places along the way. Iron Barks, Devil’s Hole and Rules Point.
Lunch and snacks en route. We’ll bring a bunch of Brew Bar vegetarian wraps and Anli Vuong’s famous handmade cookies to share.
Skipper Pete’s Water Taxi / floating cafe will bring up the rear for anyone who needs a rest, a tow, or a lift en route.

Kayak 7.5 km to Cameron’s Arm campground.
Another picnic lunch, yep, simple but shared and curated by local artists (food is art).
We camp on the lake’s edge and invite Parks Vic Rangers from the Lake Tyers Aboriginal Trust team to share the stories we need to know.

ARTIST IN RESIDENCE
Angharad Neal Williams will be travelling with us - to share her nature mapping skills, and telling us how she came to illustrate the Far East Flaneur brand that has made regenerative tourism groovy again. Jotting pads and wattle charcoal burnt are supplied for those who like to jot. (Some of us just like to watch + listen).

Next stop. Nowa Nowa.
Afternoon Kayak on to Mingling Waters (Nowa Nowa) camp park. (Paddling alongside Mike + Jenny Ryan, the couple who created this iconic (and beautiful ) cluster of handmade cabins 30 years ago. They still love it.
Flop. With hot showers, comfy beds, stunning overnight stop.
Dinner by Rinaldo Antico of GroWilde - an artful chef who lives in Nowa Nowa - and loves this gig.
Artists talk/do. Meet Bert Spinks our poetic storytelling hiker and birdwatcher.
Nothing too serious. Just mingling with nice people.

DAY 3. WEDNESDAY 28 OCTOBER

Help-yourself-breakfast at Nowa Nowa on Lake Tyers, set among these handmade cabins all built in a far east timber town, reinventing itself for regenerative tourism and a sustainable future.
Then we e-bike 38km to Orbost (with morning tea breaks along the way). Guided by (the best, funnest) local scientist, geomorphologist and devoted bike wanderer Eric Sjerp.

We’ll move at a conversational pace, stopping often. Expect stories of landforms and waterways, moments to linger, and the quiet pleasure of travelling under your own power. The Nowa Nowa Gorge. Cycling the East Gippsland Rail Trail with support from Snowy River Cycling + the Emerald Link crew. (Yes supporting the communities and organisations that are preserving the environment with creative eco stewardship).

Lunch is served at the Orbost Arts Centre by Wilderness Coast Artists and pioneering forest lovers and environmental heroes. Best spanikopita handmade and served by the Gallery . (It’s a shared lunch with the gallery team and a great fundraiser for Far East artists.)
Easy bus trip 18km to Corringle Slips Campground. Pitch tents. Light the campfire. Flop.
Camp dinner coooked and served between the Snowy River and the coastal dunes that overlook Bass Strait.

Sublime campsite at Corringle

DAY 4. THURSDAY 29 OCTOBER

A slow start today while we weave and chat with the Corringle Creators in the camp ground beside the Snowy Estuary.
CORRINGLE CREATORS weaving workshop + walk. (4 hours or so). Everyone’s favourite day.
Corringle Creators - Susan + Kylie Martin - celebrating fifth-generation Aboriginal weaving traditions. Proudly community-made.
Picnic lunch then Kayak 1.1km across the Snowy River to Marlo. Lattes at the Marlo Local.
Stroll 1.2kms along foreshore to Marlo Ocean views caravan park.
Pitch tents. Flop.
Dinner at Marlo Hotel.

Comfy camp + campfire  at Marlo.

DAY 5. FRIDAY 30 OCTOBER

Campground Breakfast before we Hike 8.5km to Point Ricardo. Best stroll along the Marlo Estuary (with morning tea breaks along the way).

Minibus / Hike 8km to West Cape Cabins.
West Cape Cabins were the natural + best surprise highlight of our First Flaneur. Hand made cabins, set on acres of coast with the most welcoming of hosts (whose family built the place) - we never wanted to leave.*

Very short bus ride to Sailors Grave Brewing for best dinner and stories shared by locals (FROTH style around the campfire)
Back to West Cape Cabins to really understand what you’ve just discovered.

*(You could decide to stay a little longer if you feel you just can’t leave after just 1 night - extra nights by arrangement). (I’ll be staying longer :-) )

DAY 6. SATURDAY 31 OCTOBER

Breakfast self-serve from the West Cape Cabin kitchen.

Relax, be part of our zine production / photo shoot ,  or local bush-walk to Salmon Rocks with  Nele Jungenkrueger & Sasha Kruse.

What sound does a memory of a journey carry? Near the end of the Far East Flaneur experience, this activity offers a moment to pause and reflect on the paths walked, moments noticed and feelings that surfaced along the way. Through a short writing exercise participants gather small fragments of their experiences and translate them into simple sounds using voice, breath, body or found objects. Written reflections may remain private, and anything shared may optionally be recorded. These sonic gestures then enter a shared pool of audio from which a soundscape will be improvised.

Depart:
Bus 17km to Marlo to connect with V-line coach departing 2.26pm arriving at Lake Tyers 3.39pm.