South Australia > Kangaroo Island

Kangaroo Island is one of the world's last unspoiled wildernesses where nature and wildlife abounds.  Many species of plant and animal found on the island are no longer found on the mainland. Located 113km south west of Adelaide, it is Australia's third largest island (4500 square kilometres). Much of Kangaroo Island is classified as national and conservation parks, the largest being Flinders Chase National Park.

 

The spectacular coastline is made up of towering cliffs, beautiful beaches, battered rocks and quiet inlets. There are excellent bushwalking and fishing opportunities. The island incorporates farmland, remote national parks, bleak rocky cliffs plus snug bays and beaches.

 

Kingscote is the largest town on the island situated on Nepean Bay. Here you can feed pelicans in the afternoon and see fairy penguins come ashore at night. At the other end of the island is Flinders Chase National Park where you can see kangaroos, koalas, wallabies and possums.  Seal Bay Conversation Park is a large sandy beach and dune area where wild Australian sea lions rest and nurse their young.

 

The island offers deserted sand beaches to either walk along or swim at, cliffs to clamber up, mountains to climb, rivers to wonder with and bays to fish in.  What more could any nature lover ask for?