BarossaValley to Coonawarra Wine region After another amazing breakfast, we reluctantly left the Blickinstal B&B and set off for our overnight stop in Robe, on route to the Coonawarra wine region.Today is the longest travelling day we have along the coastal road where we stopped occasionally to take photos of a pink lake, a giant red lobster and a lighthouse!! For more than 25 million years, this area now known as the LimestoneCoast consisted of a serie...

Saying goodbye to KI and HelloBarossaValley On Thursday morning we said a very sad goodbye to Natalie, Jack and Mark and headed off with James to Kingscote airport where we were picking up Ed after his few days off.We said goodbye to James at the airport as he was travelling to Adelaide for a meeting. Ant and I are spending the night in Kingscote as we would have arrived in Adelaide very late at night if we had caught the afternoon ferry - Emma travelled to...

Days off and disasters We generally get 2 days off a week and on our first day, James had arranged for us to go swimming with the dolphins for a very special price of just $60!!!We set off quite early as we are at least an hour's drive from pretty much anywhere east of the sanctuary.At EmuBay, we jumped on a power boat which had saddle type seats and we took a very high speed ride to the next bay, Dashwood Bay, where a pod of dolphins live.It was a bit too col...

Living and working on KangarooIsland Most days on KangarooIsland follow a similar theme.We get up and have breakfast and at 9 am, we meet in the office to get our duties for the day. Volunteering activities include Planting trees and shrubs Conservation work Maintaining paths Painting Maintaining vegetable garden Firewood collection Assisting with cleaning and laundry Fence maintenance Monitoring Koalas Maintaining bird feeding areas Fee...

KangarooIsland KangarooIsland lies just a 45 minute ferry ride off the FleurieuPeninsula.National Geographic named it the number one island in the Asia Pacific.With 540km of coastline, it is the area's third largest island.The island is home to sea lions basking on quiet beaches, koalas munching on gum trees, echidnas wandering in search of insects, kangaroos, goannas, wallabies, penguins and 267 species of birds…………….. and about 4,500 humans. Ano...