Kangaroo Island

Here is a map of Kangaroo Island -- it is just off the coast of Adelaide.




We stayed at a B&B called Stranrear Homestead, run by Lynn and Graham Wheaton. It's a working farm and Graham and his son raise 6,000 sheep on 40 acres.


Lynn prepared the best food we had on the whole trip and we bought her cookbook so Rob can prepare the same meals for me at home!

We had 2 days of touring of the island -- first from east to west and second from south to north. Unfortunately, the island is in a drought, so it was very barren.
You can see here how desolate the Island is.

Here is a Kangaroo in the middle of the park. (Don't worry -- there are better pictures below)




It's a small island, so it doesn't have much of a post office.






We saw hundreds of seals and sea lions. They just hang out on the beach.





We also went to a place called "Remarkable Rocks" which some people describe as "Henry Moore meets Salvatore Dali"


Here are a bunch of pictures from the second day of touring

This poor bugger met his maker in the tree, but still made a good picture.
the little guy below is a wallaby.

The locals consider kangaroos to be pests (like our deer population), but the government won't let them do anything about it because of the tourism dollars involved.

After 2 1/2 days in Kangaroo Island, we flew back to adelaide and on to Alice Springs for a transfer to Ayres Rock.