A Fluid Postcode: Kangaroo Island

The ferry is heavily booked, so rather than risk missing it (goodbye >$1000!) we arrived in good time to catch our ferry across to Kangaroo Island. A bit lumpy but sitting outside in the breeze saw the 50 minutes go by pretty quickly.

We had a quick look around Penneshaw and Kingscote before heading to Flinders Chase where we stayed for 3 nights.

Cape Barron Geese

There are plenty of Koalas in the park... they seem to be recovering after the fires devastated this island in 2019/2020

This dopey bugger spent the day near our van in a dead pine tree... ???

kangaroos a plenty

Cape Du Couedic light house, Remarkable Rocks, Admirals Arch and the sea lions and fur seals there are a notable attraction at the south western corner of Flinders Chase National Park.

Didn't disappoint.

The spot where supplies for the light house
keepers were winched up from a
small bay every few months.

The Remarkable Rocks really are.

Sea lions and/or seals everywhere, including under Admirals Arch.

Sea Lions or Fur Seals - we couldn't tell the difference!

We drove out to the Cape Borda lighthouse in the north western corner of the island.

Jeez it was a lonely existence being a lighthouse keeper.

We then moved to Vivonne Bay for the next 5 nights

More koalas

A good opportunity to do a bit of planning for later in the year.

We drove around to American River for the morning and had lunch by the water with more seals.

We knew Seal Bay would be a highlight. It was. Hundreds of them on the beach and in the dunes, as well as in the waves either returning from or venturing out to their 72 hour non stop feeding trips which can see them more than 100 km away.

So when they return to land for 3 days, they are exhausted, so spend a lot of time resting on the beach or in the undergrowth above the beach.

Lots of seal pups calling for (and looking for) their mothers who have been out fishing for 3 days' straight, so the pups are very hungry for milk.

Our ferry was booked for 130pm on Monday, so Sunday morning we left Vivonne Bay and headed closer to where the ferry leaves from and stayed the night at Brown Beach.

While there we drove to a winery and had a great lunch, as well as playing a bit of table tennis and whacking the four balls we had left over from The Nullabor links a month ago.