Our first activity on our last day on Kangaroo Island was a visit to Clifford’s, where they keep bees, bottle the honey, and use the honey to make all sorts of edibles. The chocolate-covered honeycomb was good; the honey ice cream, not so much. I”m sorry to say. Cool fact about the honeybees on Kangaroo Island: they’re all from Liguria, Italy. And since bees have a range of only about three-and-a-half miles, they’re not flying off to anyplace else and no other bees are flying in.
We had lunch at a wildlife sanctuary that is home to dozens—maybe hundreds—of koalas that roam freely there. Roam may be a bit of an overstatement, since koalas sleep for 16-21 hours each day. The polar opposite of “busy as a bee” is anything as a koala. But they are awfully cute.
We were then off to the western tip of this almost 100 mile long island. That entire western end of the island is a national park, called Flinders Chase National Park. It’s named in honor of Matthew Flinders, a British Naval officer who did much of the coastal exploration of Australia in the 18th century. Many cities have streets named in his honor, too.
One of the most notable features of the park is a granite formation that bubbled up millions of years ago called The Remarkable Rocks. And they are.
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Another cool feature there is called The Admiral’s Arch.
And best of all, at least from my friend Harold’s point of view, is the cool lighthouse there.
That’s a wrap for today. Early start tomorrow on our last full day in Australia before we go to New Zealand.