What a day. The alarm was set at 4:45am and at 7:00am we were on a tourist coach heading for Port Jarvis (approx. 80k’s away) where we boarded the 10:00am Sealink ferry for a 45-minute crossing to Kangaroo Island.
At the island, we boarded a Sealink coach for a tour of Kangaroo Island.
Kangaroo Island, also known as Karta Pintingga (literally ‘Island of the Dead’ in the language of the Kaurnapeople), is Australia’s third-largest island, after Tasmania and Melville Island. It is located approximately 112 km southwest of Adelaide. Its closest point to the mainland is Snapper Point in Backstairs Passage, which is 13.5 km from the Fleurieu Peninsula.
The island is 145 kilometres long West/East and between 0.94 and 54 km from its narrowest to widest North/South points. Its area covers 4,405 km2. Its coastline is 540 km long, and its highest point of 307 metres (1007 ft) is in Flinders Chase National Park, west of the junction of the Playford and West End Highways. It is separated from Yorke Peninsula to the northwest by Investigator Strait and from Fleurieu Peninsula to the northeast by Backstairs Passage.
Our first visit was to the Kangaroo Island Wildlife Park where we were able to have a close encounter with some kangaroos and koala. There were many other animals to view include native and imported animals.
The visit was followed by lunch (fish and chips) at the hotel at Pardana then to the Seal Bay Conservation Park where we were able to see sea lions and seals on the beach. We then travelled to the western end of the Island and into the Flinders Chase National Park. We stopped to see the Remarkable Rocks and then the Admirals Pass. We returned to Penneshaw after a quick look at the beach at Pennington Bay.
We returned to the mainland on the 7:30pm ferry.
Today we travelled just over 510 km in tourist coaches returning to our camp site just after 10:00pm.