Kangaroo Island YHA Penneshaw

... of kangaroos that had obviously woken up after their afternoon naps so they were beautiful. We headed back to camp and had our picnic dinner while it was still light - cheese, biscuis, ham, salad, crisps, and grapes and wine :-). We had an unexpectedly close encounter with a kookaburra, as we had thrown a few iffy grapes into the bush and we realised that a kookaburra was coming down to fetch them - so that was really wonderful. We got so close and he was ...

... nen Pelikanen. Nach einem weiteren Halt beim Prospect Hill, wo wir nach vielen Stufen eine schöne Aussicht über die Küste hatten, ging es dann zu unserem Hotel in Penneshaw, wo wir auf unserem Balkon Sonne und Meerblick genossen haben, bevor wir im Hotelrestaurant genüsslich zu Abend gegessen haben. Da wir am nächsten Morgen früh raus mussten, sind wir ein wenig früher ins Bett gegangen. Plötzlich klopfte es jedoch an unserer Zimmertür und fanden eine Flasche Rotwein ...

... mainland. There was a large pulley system that was used to get the goods up the steep hill. From there we walked along a cliff trail down to Admirals Arch, home to fur seals of the region, belonging to both Australia and New Zeland? A natural underground Arch had been carved out over the centuries because of the amount of limestone in the ground. These seals were very similar to ours as they feed all the time like ours and you could really smell ...

... are huge prehistoric looking birds - taller than me. I played with the red and grey kangaroos for a long time - some of them were as tall as me or taller! It was a great place. In the afternoon, Rachel brought us a picnic lunch in the old boat shed right on the beach. After lunch, we collected shells and rocks in the rock pools, Dad and I went snorkeling, and then we went for a walk to see the giant fig tree house and the mud flats. The fig tree house is in the middle of a ...

... and the Northern Territory for the last few weeks. I was getting hungry, so I stopped and ate some lunch at a café there. Then I visited the Japanese Gardens and some water lilly ponds. They have a beautiful stand of bamboo in the Japanese area, but people have carved their initials in the bamboo bark and it looked quite unsightly. I don't know what possesses people to disfigure something so beautiful by carving their initials in it! Next, I ...

... of tourists whereas over the three days we seen one other tour group which meant we had the biggest national park in Australia all to ourselves. We seen some brilliant wildlife including birds, spiders, snakes and lizards and ate some bush tucker to go with our excellent meals. Back in Darwin we all met up after getting a well-earned shower and went on a bender that lasted two days. From one kind of wildlife to another is what Darwin is all about!! So down to Adelaide it was ...

It has been sometime since I have written so I have some catching up to do!!! I think that I last wrote when I was on Kangaroo Island doing wwoofing after being there for a couple of days. I ended up staying there for 6 days and really enjoyed it. There were some days where I only worked 3 hours and others that I worked more than 8 but then got the day off the next day but on average it would have been around 4hrs each day. One day was spent cleaning the house which ...