Out of Leonards' Mill at 7:45 AM SA time At Cape Jervis, we load the Tarago onto the SeaLink ferry for the 50 minute trip to Penneshaw, Kangaroo Island.

Penneshaw

Australian mainland ("Big Island" for KIers)

Penneshaw

Met a young French couple on the ferry spending a year working and travelling around Australia. Seas are a little bouncy in the middle section. The weather is clear and sunny.

We try to arrange lodging towards the west end of the island from the tourist information center in Penneshaw. We have a pleasant lunch in the Ozone hotel/bar in Kingscote. Phone reception is tenuous on the road as we search for evening accommodations.

Flinders Chase Farms offers us one of their dormitory bunk-bed rooms for the night.

Steven who runs the farm adjacent to Flinders Chase National Park greets us warmly. As he talks to us, his two young daughters run up excitedly to announce there is a snake in the hen house. Steven runs off to get an ax and the two young girls promptly bring us a decapitated Black Eastern Tiger snake, as long as they are tall. The common room has a wood stove and didgeridoo. Before going to dinner we walk out into the farm's fields. Steven advises that the land is his as far as we can see and he has 5000 sheep.

Rosella

We drive to the recently refurbished Kangaroo Island Wilderness Resort Restaurant for dinner.

Back at the Flinders Chase Farm, Steven drives us around his paddock in his flatbed truck for about 15 minutes to show us great numbers of kangaroos and wallabies under his powerful light. Steven's black sheep dog has hopped in back with us. Steven stops for an injured old wallaby on the way back that is having trouble walking. The wallaby gives him a light bite. It rains and is windy through the night.