Day 1 – Adelaide to Kangaroo Island
Early morning
pick up from your Adelaide hotel (0600 - 0630) for a scenic
coach trip through hills and farmland and along the coast to
Cape Jervis. There you will connect with SeaLink's fast and
comfortable ferry for the 45 minute cruise to Kangaroo Island
to meet your special tour coach.
On arrival in Penneshaw you will be met by
your experienced SeaLink tour guide who will show you some
of Kangaroo Island's special places. First stop is Rob's Shearing,
an opportunity to see sheep shearing and learn about the wool
industry all in a small and authentic original shearing shed.
From there we drive to Andermel for a look
at the marron ponds (fresh water lobster) where these delicious
crustaceans are farmed. You will see how they are grown and
harvested and see marron in storage tanks. Andermel is also
a winery and so a wine tasting is also included. Lunch is in
the Andermel restaurant, your choice of two marron dishes served
with white wine.
After a leisurely lunch we visit the Hanson
Bay Sanctuary where we take a walk to look for koalas and other
wildlife. It is now late afternoon and for the last stop of
the day we visit the Western KI Sanctuary an area where kangaroos
and wallabies feed in the evenings.
Accommodation for the night is at the 4 star
Kangaroo Island Wilderness Retreat, near the entrance to Flinders
Chase National Park. Watch for the wallabies and possums as
you go in for dinner, a two course a la carte meal served with
Kangaroo Island wines. Remember to close your hotel room door
while you are at dinner as the possums love to visit!
Day 2 – Kangaroo
Island to Adelaide
After continental breakfast we drive into Flinders Chase
National Park to visit Remarkable Rocks, a spectacular eroded
granite rock formation and paradise for photographers. We stop
at Weir's Cove to see the ruins of the old lighthouse store
and see how they hauled supplies from sailing ships up the
cliffs to the store. In winter watch for whales which sometimes
pass along the coast here. At Admiral's Arch take the boardwalk
into the Arch, another spectacular natural formation and home
to a colony of playful fur seals.
From there we drive to Vivonne Bay for a
two course lunch served with Kangaroo Island wines and located
in a natural bushland setting. Lunch is followed by a Birds
of Prey free flight demonstration before we drive to the bay
to see if the fishing fleet is in and to see what has been
rated by one of Australia's leading Universities as Australia's
best beach.
From Vivonne Bay it is a short drive to Little
Sahara, an inland area of large white sand dunes, unusual in
that the dunes are not coastal and are surrounded by dense
bushland.
Another short drive brings us to Seal Bay
Conservation Park where we have one of the world's special
experiences - a walk on the beach with your SeaLink guide amongst
a breeding colony of wild and rare Australian sealions.
From Seal Bay travel into Kingscote, the
island's main town, where you will see the feeding of the wild
pelicans and learn about these ancient birds. Then it is time
to return to Adelaide and you tour ends at the airport or ferry
terminal for evening travel back to your Adelaide hotel.
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