Mel - Adel Trip 2008 (5)

22 Mar 08 (Sat) - Kangaroo Island

Another day tour - this time round with Sealink, apparently the monopoly in guided tour around Kangaroo Island. Price for this day trip is pricier than the other 2 we went on but it is a different location and with a whole different experience!

Got picked up at Adelaide Travellers' Inn (very near Angela's place) at 6am and then were transported to the Adelaide Central Bus Station where the big groups of us were transported to Cape Jervis for the ferry to Kangaroo Island (1 1/2 hr drive). The ferry is a huge one, able to transport vehicles across the waters too! The sea journey took an hr and it was a vomit-invoking one for me, with the ferry crossing the waters perpendicular to the direction fo the waves... I felt sick and did not drink more than a sip of the hot chocolate I bought on board... Haha..

I felt better once on stable land! And the cool sea breeze! We hit the road straight away with a 1 1/2 hr drive inland Kangaroo Island to the Flinders Chase National Park for lunch and some wild koala sighting. The lunch was at a Caravan Park and it was a 2 course authentic Aussie BBQ meat! Delicious I must say!

3 BBQ meat; chicken, beef and a mysterious tasting meat..

Straight after lunch, we took a short walk around the nearby park and sighted sleepy koalas... Nothing very exciting as we had spotted kangaroos/wallabies/koalas in Mel and even in Syd... Good way to exercise off our lunch though.

Remarkable Rocks is our next stop where huge naturally formed rocks were the main attractions.. Nothing very exciting but the sheer view of the brilliant seashores from the rocks was spectacular... Great photos and videos were taken for our memo!




Admiral's Arch broadwalk took us down a rugged cliff to an awesome rock arch, which is a nursery haven for New Zealand fur seals. We watched in awe as the numerous seals sun-tanned, dived and played around the rocks and water. Seeing them this close is a first for both Haz and I!

We got closer to the seals at our next stop, which is the main highlight of the trip. A guided Seal Bay tour, which brought us up close (within metres) of live seals on the beach... Apparently, Seal Bay is the spot where many seals rested after their diving and hunting trips (lasting up to 72 hours!) and we saw lots of sleeping seals.

sleepy seals

We even witnessed a mother seal who got back from her hunting trip and called out to her kids! What a way to experience kinship in wildlife up close! We got even luckier when we saw a bubbly baby seal moving around the beach trying to get other sleeping seals' attention.. It was so funny as these sleeping seals were obviously annoyed at this baby seal but it just kept going one seal after another.. Haha.. We caught it all in video; something for our future viewing...

A returning mother seal with its kid

The day on Kangaroo Island ended with that tour and we grabbed a quick bite before boarding the 7pm ferry back to Cape Jervis. The return trip was calm... Good for me as I had a full stomach... Slept most of the way back to Adelaide but still not enough.. After bathing and freshening up, it was already close to 11pm. Chatted with Angela over tea and Easter choc we bought yday at Glenelg before turning in close to 1am.

Took the 9am flight back to Syd and it was officially the end of our Mel-Adel trip! A very memorable trip and we were blessed with great weather and as a result, a huge majority of our 550 photos taken were GREAT!

Wanna thank Mich, Angela again for the kind hospitality and accommodation! Yishan for lending us her set of house keys! Timo and Soo for bringing us around when we were in Adel!

Stay tuned for more regular updates - Sydney Royal Easter Show, 2nd year wedding anniversary celebration at Blue Mountains and many many more...

Take good care all! 3 months to go before the end of my secondment and 4 months to gg back to SG!