Dramatic coastal scenery, brilliant aquamarine beaches, an overabundance of endemic Australian wildlife.. it's not at all an exaggeration to say that Kangaroo Island will steal your breath at every turn. Australia's third largest island has long since held the reputation of a rugged, untouched paradise, wind-whipped and pummelled by the Southern Ocean into jagged cliffs and unusual rock formations in the west, gently[...]
Our final day on Kangaroo Island is entirely bittersweet— excited to be exploring more of this island paradise, but devastated to be heading back so soon! As we make our way from Flinders Chase National Park in the west to Penneshaw in the northeast to catch our ferry back to mainland, we have an opportunity to check out a little of the southern coastline and squeeze in some more of KI's stunning scenery. Vivonne[...]
After a pretty mind-blowing first day filled with beautiful bays and empty beaches, we are eager to discover even more of Kangaroo Island today, driving into the national park to look for wildlife and admire some of the famously dramatic South Australian scenery. Lucky for us, we wake up to perfect weather and quite a few local kangaroos hopping around in front of our little cabin at Western KI Caravan Park, an[...]
Rugged, wildlife-covered Kangaroo Island has been at the top of my list for quite some time now (after I read an article that called it the best place in Australia to spot wild koalas!!), but that's the thing about living in this beautiful country— there're so many amazing places to see that the top of your list tends to be about 5 million entries long and it's actually impossible to keep up with everywhere you wan[...]
I’ll be honest with you, Adelaide is not the most eventful of capital cities. But it more than makes up for this in sheer volume (and quality) of wine. As you may notice from this delightful map (source), the Adelaide area of South Australia has the country’s highest concentration of notable wine regions. Last year, my mum, a ruthless wine snob, and I, a ruthless alcoholic (jk), spent a week in [...]
A few days before leaving for our long weekend trip to South Australia, Callum and I went to pickup a roof rack (the only way we were going to fit 6 people and all their camping stuff in the Patrol). The plan was for us to quickly put it on the car during Cal’s lunch break and then he’d be able to go back to work for the day. This proved very ambitious. The roof rack itself was over 50kg and all the brackets and[...]
Presently, my sweet mother is in Australia under the pretence of seeing me, but I think anyone who knows her would agree that she is here just as much for the wine as she is for her only child. After all of last week’s putzing around the coast in Victoria, we are off to Adelaide, gateway to some of the country’s best wine. And not just any wine– some of the best shiraz. Dianne is salivating in the next roo[...]