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Sorry for the massive jump from Kuala Lumpur to Kangaroo Island but I have become a bit lazy with writing my blog! I left Adelaide on Thursday morning after a very enjoyable and relaxing stay with my Uncle, Jo and Amy. It was lovely to be able to relax in a house, play fetch with the kittens and play lots of games with Amy! While in Adelaide I caught up with my mountains of washing, visited the delicious local food market and made a trip to Glenelg beach to enjoy the sunshine, very cold sea and yummy fish and chips. To [View Full Entry]

redhead87 - Katie Fletcher | Read The Full Entry | Subscribe
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Published: December 11th 2009 | 56 Views | [diary=459450]

Christmas in Glenelg
The view from the Hanson Bay cabins
Snake lagoon walk

The Indian Pacific pulled into Adelaide around 3pm and we were due to leave on our tour around Kangaroo Island the following day so after a quick look around town taking in some of the sights (mostly churches and statues!) we got an early night. We were picked up horribly early in a minivan by our guide Kate and drove south to Middleton Beach on the mainland for a surf lesson. Rather foolishly we had forgotten that this was part of the tour and had left our swimming gear at the bottom of our stuffed backpacks. As we have five whole [View Full Entry]

leeandamy - Lee Garrett | Read The Full Entry | Subscribe
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Published: December 10th 2009 | 48 Views | [diary=458492]

Wedge Tail Eagle
Encounter Bay from the Fleurieu Peninsula
Amy at Seal Bay

Our last day on Kangaroo Island was going to be a remarkable one. Because we got to see the Remarkable Rocks! Haha We started by going on the Snake Lagoon Hike. This little trek took us through what seemed to be some not-so-recently burned bush. Australia has a lot of this, and you can distinguish it by the vegetation. The taller trees may be scarred and leaf less, but closer to the ground the shrubbery will most likely have already re-grown and be looking healthy. Through this, we eventually came to a river and followed it to the Southern Ocean. There [View Full Entry]

Kevin and Hillary - Kev and Hill | Read The Full Entry | Subscribe
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Published: December 4th 2009 | 6 Views | [diary=457107]

Hike - 2
Hike - 3
Hike - 4

The second day on our Kangaroo Island tour was just as busy as the first. A few of our group members went for an early morning ATV drive. The rest of us were able to enjoy an extra hour’s worth of sleep, so it was an even trade. Once all back together, we went to Seal Bay. This is where a colony of Australian Sea-lions live. It’s a rough life being a sea-lion. They spend days out in the water hunting and feeding without any real rest (for fear of being eaten by sharks). Once satisfied, they return to the beach [View Full Entry]

Kevin and Hillary - Kev and Hill | Read The Full Entry | Subscribe
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Published: December 1st 2009 | 16 Views | [diary=457105]

Seal Bay
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Seal Bay - 03

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 [View Full Entry]

Kevin and Hillary - Kev and Hill | Read The Full Entry | Subscribe
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Published: December 1st 2009 | 21 Views | [diary=455242]

Ferry
Lighthouse
Ferry - 2

We had a lovely handful of days on Kangaroo Island, staying in a little house with a loft, beautiful views, delicious food and wine and an abundance of wildlife- although we didnt see any live kangaroos until the last day! [View Full Entry]

BlackManx - Amy Hall | Read The Full Entry | Subscribe
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Published: August 7th 2009 | 73 Views | [diary=426103]

Vivonne Bay
Daredevil!
Vivonne Bay views

We have just returned from a 3 day / 2 night self drive trip around Kangaroo Island. Kangaroo Island is about 3 hours from Adelaide (by bus and ferry) and as the name suggests has lots of wildlife - mainly Kangaroos but there are also sea-lions, koalas, wallabies, penguins and pelicans. We started our trip on the island by picking up our car from Budget. We were served by a lady we later knicknamed 'Budget Bitch'. She was very unhelpful, patrionising and bascially acted like she didn't want us to rent a car from her!! Fair enough we didn't actually realise [View Full Entry]

Stephian - Ian Clarke & Stephanie Burrows | Read The Full Entry | Subscribe
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Published: June 18th 2009 | 73 Views | [diary=409726]


DAY 143 It was 3.30 in the morning, Andy and I were in the wide awake club, we are not really sure what woke us both up to make us so alert, except that we were quite warm in the tent, so for the first time in ages we had to open the inner panels on the windows to let some of the breeze flow through. It had been terribly windy when we went to bed and the wind was cold, but thankfully the wind had died down. We struggled for a while to get back to sleep, but we did [View Full Entry]

kangaroojack - The Ts | Read The Full Entry | Subscribe
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Published: April 1st 2009 | 84 Views | [diary=386574]

Last Look
Queuing
Snap shot

DAY 142 We woke up fortunately where we went to bed last night at American River Camp site (Camps 5 Ref 416 page 278) the fee was supposed to be $15.00 bucks yea right. We would have been happy to contribute our dosh if they would have provided the services for our money such as a hot shower and a flushing toilet, or even water out of the tap would have been nice, but no that was obviously to much to ask so we didn’t let them keep our monies. The site itself was nothing special; just on the edge of [View Full Entry]

kangaroojack - The Ts | Read The Full Entry | Subscribe
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Published: March 30th 2009 | 105 Views | [diary=385995]

Statue
American River
Pelican Crossing

DAY 141 We woke up to a very warm morning, and the sun was blazing in as it came over the top of the mountain, it had been a very cold night and we had also been reluctant to get out of our sleeping bags, (still singles which allows less air to flow freely so we can keep warmer) when we finally did get up it was around 9.00am, we can’t believe we are sleeping for so long. The visitor of the furry kind that we had the night before, left muddy paw prints on our chairs, table and the lid [View Full Entry]

kangaroojack - The Ts | Read The Full Entry | Subscribe
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Published: March 29th 2009 | 93 Views | [diary=385702]

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