Kangaroo Island
Apart from Roger Waters (which was excellent, great stage show and brilliant musicianship), the highlight of the trip to Adelaide was Kangaroo Island. It's over 100km long, with a rugged south coast, beautiful beaches, lots of forest in the west, and ground-hugging tea-tree scrub where the southerlies sweep in from the sea. It's a part of Australia, but not quite...
I was in a group of 21 backpackers, 18 female (!), and ages from 19-ish to maybe 60. We had Swedes, Germans (they're everywhere), Canadians, French, Dutch, Japanese, Chinese and Swiss... a real mixture. The people you travel with can make or break a trip, and our group was great. We had a wonderful local guide, Lisa, who was jovial, knowledgeable, and gave two fingers to political correctness whenever possible. A real Aussie. Kangaroo Island Adventure Tours - there you go, a free plug.
We saw kangaroos, of course, but also koalas, echidnas, emus and seals. No platypus, maybe they were on holiday too. If you go there, don't just spend a day, it's worth a longer, better look.
Anna-Lena, our German chatterbox
Little Sahara
I was in a group of 21 backpackers, 18 female (!), and ages from 19-ish to maybe 60. We had Swedes, Germans (they're everywhere), Canadians, French, Dutch, Japanese, Chinese and Swiss... a real mixture. The people you travel with can make or break a trip, and our group was great. We had a wonderful local guide, Lisa, who was jovial, knowledgeable, and gave two fingers to political correctness whenever possible. A real Aussie. Kangaroo Island Adventure Tours - there you go, a free plug.
We saw kangaroos, of course, but also koalas, echidnas, emus and seals. No platypus, maybe they were on holiday too. If you go there, don't just spend a day, it's worth a longer, better look.
Anna-Lena, our German chatterbox
Lisa and another local
Little Sahara
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