Easter Holiday- Kangaroo Island

During the 4 day Easter Weekend we decided to take a road trip to Kangaroo Island, off the coast of Adelaide in South Australia. It was an 8 hour drive from Melbourne + a 1 hour ferry ride over to the island. 

It was unique compared to other parts of Australia due to the large seal population (which could be found on the rocks and beaches).   Below are some pictures of what we saw.

 Here are some kangaroo's. Smaller and browner than the ones seen on mainland Australia (no these are not wallabies) the Wallabies were much smaller and more grey. Anyway, the Island was right to go by this name because the Kangaroo's were everywhere.

Here is Milse's lighthouse, which was part of (Flinders Chase National Park) 

Here we were on a scenic hike and I looked over the edge and saw about 40 seals playing in the tide. They were doing jumps and spinning around. It was beautiful! Sadly, I only had my iphone with me and these are the best pictures I could get. If you zoom in, you should be able to see the seals in that little cove near the bottom.

 After this hike we meandered down the road and walked down a boardwalk. This lead us to some rocks and a covered cave by the ocean. Inside were hundreds of seals! lucky for us there were also babies nursing (probably 3-4 months old) and lots of mothers sleeping. It was amazing to watch.

Admiral Arch, and behind me are of the New Zealand fur seals which live in southern NZ and southern AU.

Next we visited "the remarkable rocks"...which were actually quite remarkable :-)

 Here I asked Thomas to come away from the edge of that rock, he said "in Just a minute mom, I am checking out the world..."then he turned around and I took this picture. I didn't even tell him to put his hands up, how cute is that?!

 

Thomas wanted to know if we could live here. Each kid picked out a little hole they planned to make their room/ bed. I think we would have had no problems being cavemen! 

 After visiting the remarkable rocks, we headed over to the ocean, where we got to climb on some more rocks and get splashed by the tide!

  I love this picture below of Stan and Olivia-

 Here is one picture from Kelly Hill Caves which we explored as a family. Again the iPhone didn't work that well with so much darkness 

Lucky for us the Easter Bunny came to our little cabin- It was pretty easy to find Easter baskets this year!l

 Here we are riding the ferry back to Adelaide so we can begin our drive home for work on Tuesday.

After our holiday at Kangaroo Island we decided to spend a day in Adelaide seeing the signs. Here we are at the Adelaide Zoo. Here is Mary with a kookaburra

 After the Zoo we got lunch at Hahndorph (a small village settled by Germans over 100 years ago. The buildings were very German and the town was like walking back in time. Very lovely and friendly and great food and shops.

Yes, it is fall here :-)  

 Stan picked up some gingerbread men on his way out of the town that we could eat in the car on our way back home to Melbourne.