Kangaroo Island Penneshaw, South Australia
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Frequently Asked Questions
Ships anchor offshore and tenders run to the jetties at Penneshaw, a village set on a clear bay. The landing sits next to the ferry terminal that links the island with the mainland.
The village takes a few minutes to walk: a pale sand beach, craft shops, a community gallery and a café or two facing the strait. At the end of the bay, an engraved rock records the passage of French explorer Nicolas Baudin's expedition in 1803.
Yes, at Seal Bay, about 45 minutes away by road: you go down onto the sand with an accredited guide, among a colony of Australian sea lions. The rules are strict — respectful distance, low voices, slow steps — because the species is threatened and breeds on only a handful of coasts.
Granite boulders carved by 500 million years of wind and salt spray, balanced on a dome that drops towards the Southern Ocean, in Flinders Chase National Park. Their lichen-orange hollows change shape with every step and every hour of the day.
No. The park occupies the western tip, about two hours by road from the landing, which restricts it to full-day excursions. On a short call, Seal Bay and the nearby farm shops are more realistic.
Kangaroos in the paddocks, fur seals and sea lions on the beaches, koalas up in the gum trees and echidnas crossing roads in their own time. With about 4,000 residents, the island belongs first to its animals.
A sea arch at the end of a boardwalk in Flinders Chase, where waves break beneath a vault bristling with formations. Below, New Zealand fur seals argue over the rocks in the surf.
Ligurian bee honey, whose pure strain has been protected on the island since the 19th century, farmhouse cheeses, oysters from the strait and locally distilled eucalyptus oils. Farm shops line the excursion routes with tastings and boxes to take away.
Because the French and the British were racing to chart this coast in the early 19th century. Nicolas Baudin's expedition had its visit inscribed on a rock at Penneshaw in 1803, and the island's map is still scattered with French names for capes, bays and peninsulas.
Australian dollars and English. Cards work in the craft shops and farm shops, but carry a little cash: services on an island of 4,000 people stay limited.
