Kangaroo Island-Day Five through Nine

There are not enough adjectives to adequately describe Kangaroo Island the fun I had there. It's an amazing place and I feel pretty lucky that I got to experience it, especially since not even most Australians do much less travelers. Its rugged, untouched, pristine, beautiful, and wild. Now, at first I believed I was to do some good ol' fashioned camping with tents on the beach. Thankfully, Boone and Sarah surprised me and got a lovely beach house on Island Beach just footsteps away from the turquoise ocean. Yes it was that blue.


I visited several beaches in fact...Pennington Bay, Vivonne Bay, Stokes Bay, Antechamber Bay, and Maupertuis Bay. All stunning. I fished and actually caught my first fish ever! It was too small so I had to throw it back but it was still fun. So I became addicted and wanted to fish every chance we got. But thankfully Boone and Sarah took me to Flinders Chase National Park on the western part of the island and I got to hike some awesome hills and a river that looked like tea drain into the ocean, see a seal colony and watch a couple of them play in the water, climb and scuttle under huge granite boulders at the Remarkable rocks. That was just one day!

And the wildlife.....everywhere! Kangaroos hopping up just to say hello, wallabies everywhere, and koalas in trees by the side of the road! We also saw a tiger snake...one of the most deadliest...cross the road but Boone took a photo of that puppy. Yuk. Anyway, I also got to actually hold and nurse the tiniest baby wallaby ever.
Boone and Sarah's friends who live on the island rescued it from the side of the road. Its mama was run over by a car (it happens a lot). So she was taking care of it feeding it Wallaroo, baby kangaroo and wallaby formula. Hilarious! Anyway, Boone and Sarah's friends Maggie and Holger made their life here on KI about 20 years ago from nothing. They built their own house, caught their own food, and grew their own vegetables. We were able to have dinner with them one night and they have to be one of the most loveliest down to earth people I've ever met.

I wish I could say I swam the beautiful Southern Ocean but it was freezing!! Keep in mind that these are Antarctic waters and the weather was chilly itself. I finally was able to submerge myself in Stokes Beach 'cuz it had a little shallow pool protecting it from the rest of the waves. Colder that Barton Springs people! But it was still fabulous.

And what did I eat you ask? Well, since we didn't catch that many fish (dodgy tide) we luckily had all the awesome stuff we bought from Central Market. But we did cook one fish that Boone caught one day and ate it as fish tacos. Then we also got fresh Oysters. Just off the boat fresh. And they were huge! We ate them raw and then Sarah later baked some of them on a half shell with garlic butter and parmesean cheese.....drool. And we had wonderful cheeses and stopped off at a great little cafe that had awesome fish and chips. Life is so good.
Our last day at KI was sad and we all didn't want to leave. But maybe...just maybe...Boone and Sarah will get some land there...(they're thinking about it!)...and hopefully I'll be back and experience it all again