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Kangaroo Island Slideshow
Top Hotels in Kangaroo Island
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Hotel all seasons Kangaroo Island Lodge American River
71 reviews -
The Open House Parndana
6 reviews
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Kangaroo Island Wilderness Retreat Flinders Chase
131 reviews -
Kangaroo Island Acacia Apartments Kingscote
10 reviews -
Kangaroo Island Seafront Resort Penneshaw
83 reviews
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Ulonga Lodge Kangaroo Island
9 reviews
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All Seasons Kangaroo Island
71 reviews
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Casuarina Coastal Units American River
12 reviews
Kangaroo Island
Travel Blogs from Kangaroo Island, Australia
How to Catch a Marron, and Other Life Lessons
This is a top pick! You might think---given that I just got back from two weeks on Kangaroo Island---that I would be able to tell you all about the island, and what it's like. You would be wrong. I could tell you that Little Sahara is a lovely area of pristine white sand ...
Temperature dropping, outlook improving
This is a top pick! Lot's of nature, lot's of young people, made friends with couple of fun galls and went wine tasting in Barossa Valey. In general, in a better mood. *** WORLD CHANGE STARTS WITH EDUCATED CHILDREN! Give a girl the life long gift of education! ...
Kangaroo Island
This is a top pick! ... the walk there was one koala that was in a tree a lot nearer the ground, so we got a much better photo. Next on our Kangaroo Island highlights tour was the Remarkable Rocks. From far away these look like a stone camel. When we got to the rocks we were ...
Superbowl Monday?
This is a top pick! ... won the game. Second we aren't at Whelan, Peach Towers, Truxton, the Oar House, or Bodega getting drunk but rather in Kangaroo Island getting ready to drink our first of four mini-bar beers (Called VB and something called West End). Watching the game ...
Animal Overdose - Kangaroo Island
This is a top pick! ... late summer there were loads of seal pups around basking in the afternoon sun. An other trip highlight and a fantastic end to Kangaroo Island, well worth a visit for anyone down this way. We left to catch the penultimate ferry. The boys needed ...
Kangaroo Island Day 2
... different. Its called Seal Bay and has a colony of Sealions living there. They were the only sea lions to survive on the island during the early days when it was inhabited by whalers and sealers after their oil and skins. They wipped out the other ...
Kangaroo Island and Seal Bay
The next morning, we woke up early and got ready for Kangaroo Island. Since we were taking the ferry and had a 2 hour bus ride before arriving at the boat, I wanted some coffee. I ran over to the Hilton, where these bozo girls would not give me service, ...
Kangaroo Island Day 3
... park. They were worried about all the animals dying out. Loads of them became extinct or could no longer be found on Kangaroo Island. Breeds of Kangaroos, Wallabies dwarf emus are now gone. A lot of the wildlife here was re-introduced or just introduced ...
Tenting now
... /fishing charter operators and slowly made our way west. This trip does not seem to be meant for diving - the operators on Kangaroo Island were either fully booked, only fishing or out of commission, due to a broken boat computer! We decided to settle ...
Coastal Walk and Penguins
... I headed down to the KI Marine centre to do an hour-long evening tour. I had already seen little blue penguins at Phillip island when my friend Monique was over, but there is strictly no photography. This is due to the fact that the flashes are damaging ...
From Melbourne to Adelaide
... them ending at a beautiful, lonesome lagoon - and made the most of our time at this place. We ended our stay at Kangaroo Island with a decent fish&chips meal at a sea site hotel before taking the ferry back to Adelaide. Christmas Eve was ...
Boating to Kangaroo Island and touring attractions
... from. We got onto the ferry, and we got some breakfast. I had a quiche, and my water to drink. We started going to Kangaroo Island, I listened to mucsic the whole time. The ferry ride was only 45 minutes. When we got off the ferry, we went to the cargo ...
Kangaroo Island
We will be doing a full day tour (leaving Adelaide at about 6:30 and returning to Adelaide at 22:30). We expect to see kangaroos, seals and lots of other wildlife. We saw the Remarkables rock formations which were very interesting and ...
Talta koala tuntuu
Hei taalta kylmalta Kengurusaarelta. Oikeasti! Ehdimme molemmat tottua trooppiseen ilmastoon ja nain kavi, etta parikymmenta astetta ja tuulta tuntuu jaatavalta... Tervetuloa vaan siis takaisin Suomeen sitten :) Kaytiin siis eilen aamulla Barossassa ...
Number One in Our Favorites (so far)
Even though all the places we've seen so far in Australia are beautiful and special in their own way, we have to admit that Kangaroo Island (KI) blew us away. Is a very special, quiet place with an unspoiled scenery and one of the few places were ...
A not very aptly named island!
... the road along the way, venturing out for their afternoon snacks. As we pulled in to the small ferry terminal at Cape Jervis Kangaroo Island, only 13 kilometres from the mainland, was clearly visible. At 155km long and 55km wide the island itself is the ...
Kangaroo Island Part 2
... eine Tour um die Insel auf dem Programm. Ich konnte zu einigen Sachen Tipps geben, hatte aber selber die beiden Hauptattraktionen Kangaroo Islands noch nicht gesehen. Also habe ich mich Sophie aus Schweden, Darren aus England und Roland aus Israel ...
Closed on Sunday
Not everything goes according to plan when you travel. I arrived on Kangaroo Island, south of South Australia, on Sunday. Kangaroo Island is mostly closed on Sunday, as it turns out. I was supposed to go on a nocturnal tour, but they asked if I would ...
Kangaroo Island, land of many dangers!!!
After a weird night at a funny sheep farm, we took the morning cargo ferry to Kangaroo Island. As I said, the lady at the car rental agency made us think it was a very dangerous place. It was funny, actually, because Dad was getting more and more ...
Kangaroo Island
Kangaroo Island is a the third largest island of Australia. It is possible to see a lot of native animals as platypuses, kangooroos... and the koala was introduced in order to protect it. Details of my day tour: Kangaroo Island Highlights See the ...
Waikerie - Kangaroo Island 682 kms
... to increase their numbers. Also spotted a load of wallabys and a huge pretty intimidating kangaroo. Before getting back on the ferry we seen more penguins in Penneshaw. The wildlife on Kangaroo Island is fantastic we would highly recommend a trip ...
Kangaroo Island - Dag 2
... , men den stod vi over fordi vannet virket forbanna kaldt. På vei tilbake mot ferja som skulle ta oss tilbake til fastlands Australia stoppet vi på en pizza restaurant og hadde et siste felles måltid sammen. Vel tilbake på fastlandet satte vi oss inn ...
The beautiful south
... us of home except that the plants were more exotic and there were 'roos grazing in the fields too! The crossing to Kangaroo Island (KI) was a bit blustery but OK - apparently the previous evening's crossing had been so rough they had dished out sea ...
Rob to the Rescue!
... in the wild and didn’t want to lose sight of that. The day before while on the Flinders Chase tour with Exceptional Kangaroo Island tours, I told Rob and Andrew, the guides with Exceptional, that my trip the next day was looking very iffy and I had ...
Kangaroo Island and the Barossa Valley
I decided to go to Kangaroo Island, Australia's third largest island. So I hopped on the ferry with as tour guide. First stop on the island was a lovely beach with white sands and clear blue water. I have not seen a beach since Darwin, so it was a nice ...
Bouncey Bouncey goes the Kangeroo
After the GOC, we hit Adelaide for a few days before going to Kangeroo Island, which was soooooooooooooooooo much fun!!!! On our first day we had a surfing lesson, i was soooooo absolutley rubbish!!!! Our attempts to standup were short lived and always ...
Off to Kangeroo Island
Left Adelaide for couple of days down on Kangeroo island, arrived at 7.00pm and saw the penguins in their roosts for the night, then slept well and went on tour next day including Seal bay, Remarkable Rocks, bird of prey centre and Admirals Arch. ...