Blogs from Kangaroo Island, South Australia, Australia, Oceania - page 4

On Thursday morning I got up at 5:45 am and I'm not going to lie, I had a bit of a wine induced hangover. I had to move quickly though to get my bags over to the storage area and get ready for my next trip. Today I was headed out with the Groovy Grape folks again, this time for a 2 day, 1 night tour of Kangaroo Island. I had read an article in Budget Travel mag years ago called, the 10 best islands you've never heard of and Kangaroo Island was on the list. I tore out the page and saved it until now. As it turns out, plenty of people have heard about this island, but that does nothing to diminish its reputation. I was super excited to be seeing part it! I ... read more

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, ... read more

Hello Mates - Best wishes from Melbourne :) Wie gehts wie stehts? Seids schon brav auf den Ski unterwegs? Ich geniesse nun meine letzten Tage in Melbourne mit Sonnenschein und warmer Temperatur - ach wie schoen warm :) Schnell zu meiner Woche: Meine letzten 2 Trips in Australia: Nach einer Nacht in Melbourne hab ich mich wieder auf die Socken gemacht. Was soll ich um diese Zeit schon in Melbourne machen? Ist ja nur ein Zeichen dafuer, dass meine Zeit in OZ bald abgelaufen ist - also ging es zur Great Ocean Road. Meine neuen Kameraden: 2 Dutchies, 1 Franzoesin, 1 Engalender, 2 Israelis, 8 Deutsche und mein Guide Steveo aus Adelaide. 3 Tage und 2 Naechte verbrachten wir Seite an Seite und sahen das Meer immer zu unserer Linken Seite, die 12 Apostles (davon jedoch ... read more

Kangaroo Island is the perfect place to be when your interested in the native wildlife of australia because Kangaroo Island is a true wildlife sanctuary. This is because of its isolation from the mainland so that the native vegetation suffered less from the impact of European settlement. The wildlife that your are more likely to see when visiting this Island are kangaroos, koala's, wallaby's, possums, enchidnas, penguins sea lions and more when your lucky. In februari i got my oppertunity to visit Kangaroo Island and did that through a booking with Surf and Sun. This is an adventurous tour operator in South Australia who offers the best possible trip to Kangaroo island in my opinion. It has a good mixture of adventurous and fun activities and wildlife viewing. See as much as you can in a ... read more

Remember how yesterday I said that we didn’t normally join big tour groups as we liked to do things at our own pace and we could be as late as we liked? Well today was no exception to that rule. We had a full day tour of the Island planned for the day. Originally we were meant to start at 9:30. Any guesses to the time we actually started? 10am? Nope. 10:30? Nope. 11am? Yes. We kept our guide waiting for almost 2hrs. It meant we couldn’t do all the things that had been originally planned for us, but hey never mind, we still had a great day. Our guide for the day was called Mary. She was nice, very blunt and very orange. Maybe it is because we beat them in the Ashes again (for ... read more