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Published: March 29th 2011
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Picked up nice and early at 6.05am (after buying my water from a guy who was convinced that I'm German) and we made our way to the ferry via a bakery in a random Australian Village.
Pretty soon, we had set foot on Kangaroo Island and my first thought was 'wow, it's cold.' Not cold like at home but still pretty chilly for Oz!
We drove a little way and began our day with a hike up Prospect Hill. Just 500 steps up and you could pretty much see Kangaroo Island in its entirety with mainland Australia just about visible in the background.
Driving along, we stopped to visit a couple of those pristine beaches that Kangaroo Island is famous for and then, just as the rain set in, we arrived at Seal Bay.
Thankfully, Dave, the guide gave me his rain jacket so I was fine. The rest of the group however, were pretty wet and cold!
We headed toward Seal Bay and before even setting foot on it were greeted by the cutest baby seal who I'm pretty sure was a model in training as he was very happily posing for the cameras!
Stepping onto the beach was a little like being back in Galapagos, seals everywhere! And they stink too! But this time, there were babies so it was a brand new experience.
They were pretty hungry babies awaiting their mothers return from a tree day fishing trip and I believe they were getting a bit confused. They sort of galloped up to us, called out and just stood in the sand looking up at us with those big puppy seal eyes. I really wished that I'd had some fish for them
We continued on down the beach and a large female suddenly emerged from the water. She wasn't happy. Two pups waddled over to her but they weren't hers, which made her angry. Angry enough to charge at us. And chase us back up the beach, teeth bared and all! So that little scare ended our time on the bay quite abruptly.
Soon it was lunch time and we were lucky enough to have Dave, an ex-chef cook for us and it was pretty good. I was shocked to discover that there were two other vegetarians in the group - real vegetarians too! Not the ones who eat chicken and fish.
After lunch, we went to take a peek at Vivonne Bay, voted Australia's best beach in 2005 and I could totally see why. You were able to see right through to the bottom of the bright turquoise water. Incredible! We stood and took it all in for a while whilst Canadian Dylan jumped of the jetty into the water a couple of times.
It was then time for a visit to our home for the night. An old stone cottage overlooking the ocean, and fields filled with kangaroos and wallabies of all shapes and sizes.
Up in the trees were the first and only wild koalas I've ever seen and up high was a mother koala cradling her baby.
Kangaroo spotting was next on the agenda (which wasn't exactly hard!) and then the group convened at the outside dinner table whilst Dave (the superstar) cooked us all dinner!
Dinner was ready and the possums were out and about. The scurried up close and took a piece of cucumber right out of my hand . They were really fat too! They obviously know where to go to get the food.
Dave had told us earlier in the day that we would do a night hike to search for penguins and he had never not seen one before. First time for everything though- we did not spot a single penguin and I had my heart set on meeting a pingu- alike too! Oh well, it was worth heading out there just to see the stars. They were just amazing and the Milky Way had decided to put in a appearance.
I'd wanted to sleep in a swag that night but the temperature had dropped to about 12 degrees and it was raining so I opted for a nice warm bed in the cottage.
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