Remaining days and return to Adelaide (days 28 - 30)
As you will have read throughout this journey we have had fantastic weather. Everywhere south and west of Goulburn has been in dire need of rain. On KI we could not be more pleased with the clear blue sky days we have, albeit a couple of very windy ones. Only a few showers ... but amazingly, obvious green shoots appearing in nearly all the paddocks when we drive around. So we have seen KI at its best 😁... the final few days it decided to show us the other end of that spectrum!
Very windy, some solid rain and wild enough weather for the ferry service to be shut down for 3 days. This meant limited movement about and the need to spend an extra night for our delayed departure back to the mainland after mother nature calmed down. No begrudging any rain here (and on the mainland).
So here are a final few photos of our time on KI and our return journey to Adelaide which we made via Victor Harbour instead of merely retracing our steps back up the Fleurieu Peninsula when we began.
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The beginning of rough weather across Brown Beach
towards Baudin Beach |
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| Looking (temporarily) brighter along Pennington Bay on the southern coast |
We also had a decent look around Kingscote and a highlight was another of those painted silos. It is not a "leaning" silo, just awkward with the fence to get the camera set 😖.
We called in at Clifford's Honey Farm and the queen bee made her presence felt!
Back in Penneshaw on one of the wild days, this photo shows to water raging and spilling over the breakwall around the ferry terminal harbour.
The rough weather was good weather for indoor activity like sampling fantastic burgers and delicious spirits at the KI Distillery and the Eucalyptus Oil Distillery with their beautiful ciders. This photo is the end of the gin and liqueur tasting at the KI Distillery.
Several afternoons not far from our B&B we sighted a mob of western grey kangaroos in a paddock sloping down to Pelican Lagoon. Here are a few photos showing the size of them, and one in tribute to the MANY we saw on the sides of the roads 😞
On our final morning we opened the curtains and were greeted by a western grey grazing quietly in our front garden - a neat final glimpse of the wildlife before we left the island.
Then on a calm morning after the rough weather we set off on the ferry back to the mainland - and had the pleasure of sharing the ferry ride with B-double of sheep - after the care needed to park the car, watching the carrier back so precisely onto the ferry was something to behold!
Back on the mainland we headed to Victor Harbour and it was a treat to see just how much green had sprouted so quickly across the southern Fleurieu Peninsula after the several days of decent rain. We detoured to Encounter Bay and ended having a delightful seafood platter at Whalers Seafood Dining looking over the bay. Before setting off I wandered over for some photos of birds along the shore on some rocks and among the seaweed - each labelled below. Then back through the southern vale vineyards to Adelaide for the another leg of our journey.
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| Two terns and a little pied cormorant on a rock in the bay. |
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| Silver gulls roosting in the seaweed. |
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| A portrait of one of the silver gulls with something to say! |
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Sharing the spoils - a white-faced heron and several starlings
feeding in the seaweed. |
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