Four Nights on Kangaroo Island South Australia. Day Four - 2nd May.

It's overcast with showers when we leave the eastern part of the island and head for our next 2 nights accommodation at the Kangaroo Island Wilderness Resort on the south west corner, next to the Flinders Chase National Park.

Leaving the cabin.

Last look at the view from the resort and hoping all of that rain isn't coming our way.

Red lichen on the rocks below the park fence line.

Little stone cottage at Penneshaw.

Nepean Bay in Western Cove.

Peacocks were in the bush next to the road at Nepean Bay.

Kangaroo Island Kangaroo, a sub-species of the Western Grey Kangaroo. Appears to be darker and smaller than our Eastern Grey Kangaroo.

They had a nice collection of feral cats skins at Emu Ridge Eucalyptus Distillery.

Old movie theater projector, old truck and Eucalypts at the distillery.

Receiving instructions on not getting too close to the sea lions at Seal Bay.
You can only go to be beach with a park ranger, at additional cost.

Accessing the beach to find some seals.

Windy, but worth it.

At first, we weren't sure if this seal was alive or dead, but as we approached, it rolled over in to another position.

It was a cold and windy day and these seals only have reasonably short fur and so feel the cold more than other species.
As you can see, it has all 4 flippers tucked under its body to try and keep a little warmer, and it was also shivering.

A young Sea Lion comes out of the surf and looks for its mother.

A young Sea Lion returning from a swim in the surf.

Cute, but have sharp teeth.

Time for rollie-pollies.

Gulls and Terns on the breeze.

Young seals in the dunes sheltering from the wind.

Young ones fighting (boys will be boys).

Tracks worn through the dune vegetation by the seals

This bull was blocking the path back to the park information centre.

These things have a large mouths full of sharp teeth so I ain't going anywhere. We were told to keep 10 meters (30 ft) away from the seals.................

..........so to get back we had to scramble between the seal and the vegetation on the left, a distance of  only 2 meters (6ft).
To say I wasn't a little apprehensive would be a understatement.

The board walk is to protect the vegetation from us, and us from the seals.

I don't think there are elephants around here, so it must be the remains of a whale.

Snoring in the sand.

Correa species flowering in the dunes.

Two-thirds of the Sea Lion population is found within South Australian waters, with the main breeding colonies being on Kangaroo Island, such as this one at Seal Bay. It is estimated that only 12,000 remain in the wild today.

Yes, the wind was cold............

..............but we still enjoyed the experience.

Hang on there, Koala.

He didn't have a lot to hang on to.
 This Koala was only about 6 meters (20ft) up the tree and beside the road.

The skies were still threatening at Vivonne Bay.

You may have noticed that every bay we went to had a jetty the same as this one at Vivonne Bay.

The water was certainly a nice colour when the sun came out.

Vivonne  Bay was once voted 'the best beach in Australia'.

There was some shelter from the wind here.

But on the headland it was blowing a gale.

Windy at Vivonne Bay.

At last, Cape Barren Geese.

This Tammar Wallaby was just checking to make sure our room was to our satisfaction.

The lady at the park visitors centre said it wasn't much good going into the park as it was getting late (it was just on 5 o'clock)  and hadn't we seen all the grey clouds and the rain.

  I said that I we were only going to be here for 2 nights and as there is only 1 sunset a day and I need 2, I would still go on................

..........and aren't I glad I did as even the eastern sky was great, and it also gave me a chance to.................

...................fly like superman. The wind at the Remarkable Rocks was roaring through.

And to the west the sky was boiling.

We even had a volcano at Remarkable Rocks.

It was a pity there was no one else there to see all of this, we had the whole place to ourselves.

And the lady suggested we not go.

Remarkable Rocks.
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Remarkable Rocks.

It was cold, but what an experience.

Remarkable Rocks.
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Remarkable Rocks.

Remarkable Rocks.

Remarkable Rocks.
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