Kangaroo Island Chase

Today is the long-awaited and much-debated KI tour. We set off at nine freezing a.m. for Little Sahara. It's a hidden part of KI off the tourist radar. And thats good because when we were there, we had the whole place to ourselves. We run amok around the sand dunes and tumble our way down, screaming head over heels.


Maggie and Franka sitting at Vivonne Bay. The girls are beginning to bond now.


The waves from the Southern Ocean come crashing into the rocks at Vivonne Bay, sending spray three storeys high. We all enjoy climbing up and down the rock thinking we're far enough from the sea spray. Johannes spots a huge one coming so we jump across a few rocks to get front row seats. This time the sea is cunning and gets Johannes and I. We enjoy seeing big waves, and end up freezing...


We go to the abandoned cave at Kelly Hill Caves. This is the one that tourists arent allowed to go to anymore. Except for gung-ho WWOOFers. We climb down an old ladder to enter the caves. I go first and my gallet torch comes in handy. It's a labyrinth of dead animals in there..

Lunch is a picnic at Hanson Bay. It's also quite and peaceful, the only sound from the waves crashing. Thats the way KI should always be. Johannes and I tear off our clothes and race into the sea. It's frigid and the moment we reach thewater we're screaming like girls with erect nipples. We ride the waves, throw dead fish at each other, wrestle and dunk but finally decide the water's too cold to stay for long. We return to the girls who've already started the picnic. Lunch was amazing and it felt like the peak of the holiday so far. After lunch, us boys go walking around where we spot a dead but fairly well-preserved (salted) seal. We try to tear it up but the meat tearing and the skeleton is too much of a sight so we start running away in terror.