What time is it there?!

Back on the proper tourist trail again and we decided to take a trip to Kangaroo Island which is just a few miles off the coast to the south of Adelaide. It is known for its wonderful wildlife although unfortunately a large amount of this seems to end up as roadkill.

The main roads on Kangaroo Island are fine and well maintained. The problem is that there are only 2 main roads both which head roughly in an east/west direction! Although these go to the main towns and tourist attractions, anthing else that you may want to experience outside of this requires you to travel on a very rough road which will shake all the nuts and bolts out of your car, nevermind what it does to your insides!

The car we had was lent to us by a very close friend and we decided that we would like to keep our friendship that way so we avoided the boneshaker roads. We also avoided adding to the roadkill toll which was good as we are not sure exactly how much damage a Kangaroo will inflict on a car but we suspect much the same as if you hit a horse and our budget won’t run to substantial bodywork repairs.

We didn’t manage to see a live Kangaroo and as this is what the island is named for, we were a little disappointed. Nonetheless, we did see some great, potentially ‘remarkable’ slights.

Almost at the furthest point on the Island from the main townships are a large collection of rocks which have been weathered by the rain and coastal breezes (or should we say gales as it really blew down there). The shapes that they have formed are really ‘remarkable’ ....... guess it didn’t take them long to come up with this name!

Due to the compound of the rocks, the weathering takes place VERY slowly and it was interesting to compare photographs that were nearly 100 years apart and there was very little change. Not much else to say about these really, thepictures tell you far more.

TIP: Hire a 4WD and go off the beaten track a bit any maybe you may have a better chance of spotting some Kangaroos.