Chapter 63: A Day and a Half of Kangaroo Island

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In fact, there is a legend about the origin of the name Kangaroo Island, that is, the name of the legendary Kangaroo Island comes from the British explorer Matthew Lee, who discovered the island in 1802. Flindas, which began when the sailors of the Flinders expedition ship ate the island's kangaroos due to hunger when they landed on the island, but now the island's inhabitants prefer to believe that this mundane name is the best protection for Kangaroo Island.

More than 4,400 square kilometers of the island, more than one-third of the area is designated as a national park and nature reserve, and people in South Australia are proud to call Kangaroo Island "Nature's Pleasure Island", because as long as you have been to Kangaroo Island, you don't have to go to the Great Ocean Road to find wild kangaroos, nor do you have to go to Penguin Island to meet the penguins homecoming. You don't have to travel all the way to Brisbane to get up close and personal with koalas, or cross the whole of Australia to Perth for a whale watching tour or marvel at the beauty of black swans, because Kangaroo Island is one of Australia's most magical places of natural bliss!

This piece was described by the British newspaper The Guardian as "the last place on earth. For thousands of years, this land has breathed oxygen-rich air from Antarctica, bathed in the unique heat waves, scorching sun and warm winds unique to southern Australia, and enjoyed extreme freedom surrounded by the Pacific and Atlantic Oceans.

Early in the morning, in order to meet Sophia's desire to drive to Kangaroo Island, the beautiful Sophia drove the Range Rover to the landing rover, with the lazy Tang Feng and Depp and Donnie's two protectors, and got on the ferry to Kangaroo Island, more than ten kilometers wide Bactois Strait, the fast ferry docked safely at Kangaroo Island in less than 20 minutes, Sophia Liso drove off the ferry and started a one-and-a-half-day romantic trip to Kangaroo Island.

The best way to get around Kangaroo Island is by car, where the scenery in early summer is very different from the scenery on both sides of the Ayr Highway, and it is full of life and greenery compared to the roughness and desolation of Western Australia and South Australia. The sun shines on you, you look up at the pure blue sky, walk through the low bushes and the majestic dense forest, the endless asphalt road ends with the blue sea, the scenery in the rearview mirror is the red dust swept by the wind, and the birds and jumping kangaroos will be the companions of the journey, or stop to interact with them, or wave your hand to continue to your destination, Flinders Chase National Park is not far away.

Kangaroo Island doesn't have much of a touch of artificiality, with almost all of the Flindas-Zeiss National Park décor on its graceful boardwalk, and its famous magical rocks standing at the edge of the world, surrounded by the sea on three sides. The formation of the miraculous rock is still a mystery to mankind, and the more authoritative view comes from Professor Reid, a geology expert at the University of Cambridge, who believes that the miraculous rock originated from a lava eruption about 200 million years ago, and then this huge granite group emerged from the earth's crust, and after the baptism of time, the knocking of huge waves and the erosion of violent storms to form what it is today. National park staff have also carefully prepared a black-and-white photograph of Henry Moore in an attempt to tell new explorers that even in the last 100 years, nature has given a new look to the amazing rocks.

Sophia drove the Land Rover through the paved bush as she felt like she was in the wilderness of Nullarbor National Park again. The surface color of that magical rock will even change from time to time throughout the day, caressing the gifts from nature, gazing at these strange stone sculptures that seem to be visitors from outside the world, listening to the chord sound of the sea and the waves, the unpolished beauty and shock are actually hidden deep in the roughness, so the combination of heaven and earth, sea and land may only be created by nature, the light and shadow, the dazzling, the movement and the stillness are all just right, or look at the lonely red-topped lighthouse on the other side of the sea, or look up at the strange clouds and colorful glow in the sky, Or lie quietly on this rock, and wait until sunset or the stars shine, and that rosy red is the most romantic picture.

Tang Feng and Sophia naturally won't wait for sunset here, there are countless landscapes waiting for them to enjoy in front of them.

At the southwest end of Kangaroo Island, known as the "end of the world" cliff, in the midst of the rough waves, there is a small island, which is called Battleship Island because it resembles a warship; On the opposite side of Battleship Island, there is a spectacular natural cave formed by the erosion of the sea water and sea wind, which resembles an arch, hence the name Battleship Arch.

The battleship arch is one of Kangaroo Island's famous landscapes, this carefully carved arch of nature is like a natural barrier to the sea day and night, although it has been subjected to the impact of huge waves all the time, although its sides have long been washed by the sea into rock walls and tidal cracks, but the battleship arch has been standing there for tens of thousands of years.

Perhaps it's this persistence that eventually attracts thousands of New Zealand fur seals, and the soft-haired black generals seem to have fallen in love with the unique taste of the reef rocks between the tides and tides, while on the other side of Kangaroo Island, Seal Bay Conservation Park is home to Australian sea lions, whose favourite spots are lazing on the beach and basking in the sun.

According to research statistics from the University of Sydney, there are only about 10,000 Australian sea lions in the world, and about 3,000 of them inhabit Kangaroo Island and its surrounding areas. On the wide and beautiful soft sand beach of Seal Bay, groups of Australian sea lions sometimes hug each other to keep warm, and sometimes line up in long horizontal columns in an orderly manner, full of leisurely and natural interest, and the string of "cute" words is the most appropriate description for them. Unlike watching penguins come home in Kingscote, a giant whale skeleton on the beach of Seal Bay is an awe-inspiring sight, a force of pure nature, an irreproducible life.

After walking through Flindas Park, passing through the Seal Bay Conservation Park, encountering cheerful kangaroos, lazy koalas, opossums, emus, greeting the cute sea lions, admiring the clumsy penguins' swaying and walking, and seeing the majestic posture of dolphins flying out of the sea at close range, Tang Feng and Sophia drove hundreds of kilometers all day, almost circled around Kangaroo Island, and finally arrived in Kingscot in the evening.

Yesterday, Sophia booked a hotel room here, and after a simple dinner in the hotel, the two of them immediately set off to participate in the "Night Exploration under the Southern Cross" held in the evening.

It's a fun activity that allows visitors to get a close-up look at the koalas and kangaroos at night with the help of the starry sky. This activity can continue until the second half of the night, which makes Tang Feng and Sophia both excited and tired.

Early the next morning, the two drove to the famous white sand beach, the quality of the water here is not inferior to that of the Great Barrier Reef, and the underwater is also colorful, but neither of them has time to take the diving certificate, so they can only play at the beach for a while, drive to the small Sahara, and play sandboarding for more than an hour.

It was fast to noon, and no matter how much fun I had at Kangaroo Island, I had to go back. Tang and Sophia drove back to Pennashaw for the 2pm ferry back to Jervis Point.