Finally, we had a day we actually enjoyed on Kangaroo Island. Perhaps it was just us being grumpy, the weather, or that everything seemed expensive, but until now we'd just thought 'meh'. And to be honest, whilst today was pretty awesome, I still wouldn't pay $400 for a return ferry for KI, unless I was cashed up. All that aside, this day was pretty cool. Even driving into the park you get a sense of how big it is - and could imagine it all alight in the bushfires of 2020.
Flinders Chase will cost you $12 to enter, so $24 for the two of us. We knew it was meant to be beautiful so swallowed the expense and drove into this part of the island to park at yet another lighthouse - as you may have realised in previous posts about South Australia, there is a lot of shipwreck history around these parts. It seems they were always bumping into reefs and rocks. Du'oh.
After the lighthouse we wandered down toward a natural archway called AdmiĀrals Arch. What we didn't expect was that was home to a large colony of fur seals! Can you spy them below? The arch way was pretty cool and wild - the photos on my phone don't do it justice at all!
Well, here's a great close up for you. I could watch them all day. It's amazing to think that we nearly clubbed them to extinction, and it was only colonies in remote, inaccessible places like this that saved them. They truly are dogs of the sea - playful and doglike in their actions. Even watching the babies sleep is amazing! I could easily have spent all day here just watching them.
From here we drove to a really amazing old station storehouse where there was the 'fox', basically a way of transporting supplies - and people - up the huge cliffs every three months or so.
What an amazing feat! I could almost here the shouts and the sound of machinery, and the waves crashing below and shouts of the men.
I loved the architecture of the place. Clearly the beams are more modern and stop it falling into the sea, but can't you just imagine the renovation? Kitchen and dining room with those views?
I mean, imagine how much I could charge people for accomodation... :P
There was still one more part of the Flinders Chase for us to explore - a place called Remarkable Rocks, but that needs a whole new post as it's pretty stunning!
With Love,
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