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Published: December 1st 2009
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Tour
Our tour group was really small for our trip to Kangaroo Island. Friday we started our 3-day tour of Kangaroo Island. It’s a small island off the mainland in South Australia. We drove a couple of hours from Adelaide to the ferry, which is the only way to get to the island. Supposedly it’s one of the most expensive ferries in the world (in terms of fares), especially for vehicular transport (which keeps the island fairly free of too many tourists and development). After a short ride, we arrived on land!
One of our first places to check out was Prospect Hill. It was a bit of a climb to the top, but we got some great views all around. You could even clearly see the narrowest part of the island, where the ocean would almost rejoin with itself. We had lunch at a eucalyptus farm, where they manufacture the oil from eucalyptus trees and use it to make a variety of products, from makeup to cleaning products. The oil has a very distinctive scent, and is also great at removing glue!
Next we spent some time on a couple of beaches. One of them involved weaving your way through a large series of rocks, eventually revealing the beach. The weather
Ferry
The ferry departs daily, and is supposedly proportionally one of the most expensive ferries in the world. was a bit too chilly for swimming, but the views were awesome. And incase we hadn’t had enough sand in our shoes, our next stop was the Little Sahara Desert! Now, it’s not an actual desert, but more like a very large series of sand dunes. It didn’t matter though, because it made for some great sand boarding. We were all novices when it came to the sport, but it turned out that Hillary and mine experience with tobogganing was just what we needed. And much like tobogganing, the ride down is great, but the climb up is what eats up all your time.
We eventually found our way to our cabin. It was a small little thing, filled with bunk beds and a kitchen. Luckily we didn’t need to spend too much time inside since we were all scoping out the wildlife! We found a few koalas doing what they do (sleeping) not more than thirty meters from our doorway. Then came the wallabies! There must have been hundreds of them, all out in the plains within viewing distance of the porch! Such an amazing sight. Of course it made it a bit difficult for our final activity
Lighthouse
A cool looking lighthouse right by the ferry. of the day, which was penguin spotting. You see, driving through those fields proved a bit hazardous, especially when it looked like the wallabies were having a contest of who could hop in front of our bus the closest (without getting hit). We had a few close calls. But it was worth it to see some Little Penguins. The smallest of the penguin species (I’m sure you assumed by the name), they have a nesting ground on Kangaroo Island. These guys wait for dark and then climb out of the water to their nests after a long day (or a few) at sea gathering food. Of course with it being dark we had trouble finding them, but we spotted a few climbing up the rocky shore’s edge to their awaiting children. With no more excitement for the night, we returned to our cabin for a nice warm fire and some nice gooey marshmallows!
Kevin (and Hillary)
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