Kangaroo Island- Part 2

Penneshaw Sunrise 

Penneshaw Sunrise

Penneshaw Coast

Kelly Hill Caves

Ballet Slipper- Kelly Hill Caves

The Cape du Couedic Lighthouse on Kangaroo Island

The path to Admiral's Arch

Flinders Chase National Park Coastline - Kangaroo Island

Flinders Chase National Park coastline

Admiral's Arch 

Fur Seals on the way to Admiral's Arch 

Kangaroo Island Coast at Flinders Chase National Park

Our stay on Kangaroo Island really was incredible.  We spent one night in Penneshaw at the Kangaroo Island Seafront Resort.  It was a nice hotel with a really large room.  We had a small kitchen and a balcony with ocean view.  In fact, we were greeted in the morning by whales doing flips outside our balcony.

The one thing we paid extra for was the penguin tour in the evening at the Penneshaw Penguin Center.  We honestly didn't even know about this before we arrived, but our tour guide told us we could do this.  I think it was $10 per person.  Since it is done in the dark, it can be hard to spot the "Little Penguins" or Fairy Penguins.  That is why our guide carried the pink lights.  We did see quite a few on this tour including some little families of penguins, but we saw so many more the next day when we were arriving back on the mainland of Australia by ferry as they were all lined up along the coast as if to welcome us back.  Either way, it was exciting to see these little creatures in their natural habitat instead of a zoo or aquarium.

The one thing to note about Penneshaw is that in the off season there are few places to eat. Not like there are many more during the peak season, but there are a few others that are open seasonally.  The hotel had a restaurant and there was a pizza place we tried the night we left as well as a pub.  However, they close early!  Thankfully we purchased a block of cheese at one of our stops on the island and some crackers at the grocery store behind the hotel to snack on because when we got back from the penguin tour, all the restaurants were closed.  So, there was no dinner for us.  This was our dinner that night: