Fim Fam - Day 5

(A solitary lighthouse stands guard along the coast in Flinders National Park: Michael Lowe)

Day 5 – June 23, 2009

0730-1000 Enjoy Breakfast

1000 Check out and depart for Exceptional Kangaroo Island tour

1000-1550 Flinders Chase National Park, Remarkable Rocks, Admirals Arch
Kangaroo Island is a combination of unique wildlife and spectacular landscapes. Along the way to three of K.I.’s most popular areas, we come across beautiful birdlife, wallabies and echidnas – a member of the same family as the platypus; mammals that lay eggs.

(An echidna bumbles up a bank of sand and into the brush: Michael Lowe)

Flinders Chase National Park, at 74,000 hectares, is one of Australia’s largest parks and home to koalas, Kangaroos and the like.

The Remarkable Rocks don’t look like much until you approach them. Giant granite boulders formed by volcanoes years ago balance precariously on top of a rocky mountain as waves crash into the wall of stone beneath them.

Admirals Arch is a naturally bored arch in the K.I. stone. The Southern Ocean pounds through the gap in the rock floating spray onto resting New Zealand seals. The silhouetted figures hanging from the arch are not stalagmites as one might think, but actually tree roots hundreds of years old.

(Waves crash through Admirals Arch: Michael Lowe)

1630 Depart Kingscote on Air South flight AS6

1710 Arrive Adelaide

1955 Depart Adelaide on Qantas flight QF599

2150 Arrive Perth

2200 Transfer to Hotel

2230 Check in to rooms at The Richardson

The Richardson is one of Australia’s newest business luxury hotels. My room consisted of two bedrooms, two bathrooms, a full kitchen, washing machine and living room. Pretty intense and a very good product for those traveling in groups or with family, probably not for my personal use.

Their largest suite overlooked the world’s largest inner-city park, Kings Park, and had a telescope for stargazing. How “suite” is that? Muahahaha.

www.therichardson.com.au