Kangaroo Island/Adelaide South Australia

After a VERY early morning (5 am) departure from Auckland, we spent one night in Adelaide and then we had to get up early again to catch a ferry 2 hrs away. We packed up all our stuff and headed off to Kangaroo Island. Actually, we thought we packed up all our stuff, but we left a few unimportant items behind like our passports! luckily they remained in the hotel safe so the hotel found them (we neglected to figure out that we forgot them until we had been on Kangaroo Island for 2 days). 

Kangaroo Island is a very remote Island off the coast of South Australia
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We and the Horvat clan took a Ferry 22 km from a port about an hour and half drive south of Adelaide (a really picturesque drive giving us a taste of South Australia wine country and little country farm houses)to KI and drove to the house Tony and Belinda (our good friends in Adelaide) rented for us (and refuse to let us pay for it!!!).  The house was AMAZING!  It was brand new and overlooked Emu Bay in 3 different directions from the top of the hill.  It has been filmed by an Aussie travel show as one of the best vacation homes.

The kids loved the 3 acres and the parks and beach. 

Spent one day in Kingscote (the first settlement in South Australia) and had lunch at a seaside reasturant which was great and the kids got to play at a park next to the ocean. 

We went to Seal Bay which is a natural seal habitat at the very south of the island and saw a few seals and their pups running around. The island and beaches are beautiful. We really enjoyed our stay, and really enjoyed spending time with Tony and Bel and the kids.

We only saw 2 Kangaroos on Kangaroo Island, both road kill. 

It was really cool to take the ferry back to the mainland as looking out and approaching "Australia" was different than flying into the country (even though Kangaroo Is IS Australia it was just a different perspective of the mainland).

We got back to Adelaide on Friday and on Saturday we went for dinner with Tony and Belinda (the kids were all with a babysitter) at one of their favorite restaurants overlooking the city from the  hills called Windy Point and all met Sunday for Mother's Day lunch at yet another great restaurant /English style pub where the kids could run around a small courtyard.

Adelaide is a really nice city. The suburb areas are reminiscent of little English villages and the hills and scenery are really beautiful.  We are staying in an area called Glenelg, which is right on the beach in Adelaide and is a really great touristy spot with restaurants and shopping. There is a place called the "Beach house" that has a play place and mini golf and bumper cars etc that the kids love.

Wineries in McLaren Vale and Barossa Valley (Bel is watching the kids, thank you!!) for the next few days and then we will be back in Sydney on Wednesday night to take in the last couple days of this amazing trip.