Flinders Chase National Park Kangaroo Island

Arriving after traveling through Clare valley to Quorn was quite the relief because we have been driving for HOURS! Quorn The town was SO small and it was a bit on the scary looking side, it was pretty much deserted. We parked the bus and unloaded all of our things because we were sleeping here for the next 2 days. After we unloaded everything we …

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Up at the crack of dawn, my favorite time of day! (not) started our day at Clifford's Honey Farm. They showed us the process they go through to make honey, as well as shared a history on the introduction of bees to the island imported in 1884.

From there we were off to Kelly Hill Caves. If getting up at the crack of dawn was …

Nachdem ich den letzten Eintrag am Montag in Adelaide geschrieben habe, ging meine Reise nach Kangaroo Island los. Als erstes ging es mit dem Bus ungefähr 1,5 Std. nach Cape Jervis. Die Fahrt durch die Adelaide Hills und entlang der Küste war echt schön und nicht so langweilig wie die Busfahrten, die ich bisher hinter mir habe ;) Am Fährenanleger …

Took the ferry from Cape Jervis to Penneshaw; Kangaroo Island, and met up with our tour guide Greg. Greg can only be described as your stereotypical tourists image of what an Australian should look like, dressed in tan shorts, tan boots, loose fitted shirt, matching tan hat and a big bushy beard. Every bit of him oozed nature and outdoor living. < …

... I couldn't tell you what makes the Remarkable Rocks so very remarkable, or if Admiral's Arch is admirable, or anything about Flinders Chase National Park. I could tell you, however, how to catch a marron! Or, if you happened to be interested, I could ...

... Island and see some of the wilder beaches down the dirt tracks. Our first main port of call with the Flinders Chase national Park in the west of the island which had a great cafe complete with a sand pit with fossils at the bottom which kept the kids ...

... to worry us the tourists. As if we wouldn't know what he was talking about!! Our final walk on the island was at the Flinders Chase National Park. It was set up around the same time as Yellowstone Park in America. It took environmentalists 27 years to ...

... was much bigger than anticipated - it took us the better part of the rest of the day to make it to the Flinders Chase National Park, where we quickly checked out the tent sites, but then decided on the more luxurious (great camp kitchen!) Western K.I. ...

... views and resident New Zealand Fur Seals frolicking in the sea and on the rocks. The drive back through Flinders Chase National Park should have been kangaroo spotter heaven but the only one we saw was on my souvenir fleece! Our guide assured us ...

... the sight of 6 or 7 of them sheltering in crevices and under rocks. We travelled to the far side of the island then and set up camp in Flinders Chase National Park.  We did a 4km trek and saw a goanna lizard and a couple of tawny dragons. The next ...

... lunch at a nearby farm where we went for a stroll and saw loads more Koalas and some Wallabies. Travelled through the Flinders Chase National Park to the Remarkable Rocks, which are a cluster of granite boulders, eroded by the weather and perched on a ...

... 't do any better justice to this day than to just show the pictures. Bare minimum of info: Flinders Chase National park is on the west side of Kangaroo Island and named after Matthew Flinders, the first European to pay much attention to the island.  ...

... Admirals Arch - a cave-like arch that's home to another fur seal colony Little Sahara - giant white sand dunes Flinders Chase National Park - where we saw a ton kangaroos, koalas, wallabies, pelicans and some other animals I can't remember the names ...

... maple syrup (is there no limit to what an aussie can cook on a bbq??!!) and then headed to Flinders Chase National Park on the West end of the Island where the whole area has been left as it would have been when it was discovered by the explorer Matthew ...