Price: A$286.00 per person per day

Personalised tours also available, contact us for prices.

Island Life

Explore a redgum forest in the Cygnet River valley - seek out koalas sleeping in the forks of trees. Travel through some of the Island's best wool-producing areas to Lathami Conservation Park. Take a walk through the habitat of Kangaroo Island kangaroos, tammar wallabies and endangered glossy black cockatoos. Break for lunch and enjoy a delicious seafood barbeque with fine South Australian wines.

At Seal Bay Conservation Park walk with your guide amongst Australian sealions on a beautiful sandy beach. Watch pups nursing, or playing in the surf, see old bulls scarred by territorial disputes and learn of their unique breeding biology.

Visit Cape Gantheaume Conservation Park including D'Estrees Bay, where ospreys nest, and kangaroos come out late in the day to feed.

Flinders Chase Focus

Travel to Flinders Chase National Park - a 190,000 acre wilderness covering the entire west end of the Island. Work to establish this park started in 1888 and it is not hard to see why people wanted the area protected. Unspoilt and diverse, it is home to a variety of plants and animals - some found nowhere else on the planet.

Visit Rocky River Homestead - originally a small farm and now the National Park headquarters. This is the winter breeding site for the rare Cape Barren Goose - a species with a world population of under 8,000 individuals. It is also home to kangaroos, wallabies, emus, koalas, platypus and many birds.

At Cape du Couedic on the south-west tip visit a furseal colony which, having recovered from seal hunting in the early years, is expanding fast. The New Zealand Furseals here now number over 4,000. These animals can be observed at rest on the rocks or frolicking in the surf under Admirals Arch - a spectacular coastal grotto. On the headland above is a beautiful lighthouse where three light keepers and their families lived, maintaining a warning for ships. With no road access until 1940 life was tough - supplies came by sea only every 3 months.

Another impressive stone structure had a different architect. The Remarkable Rocks, huge natural granite sculptures, have been carved by relentless winds, rain and salt from the Southern Ocean. The end result looks like a meeting of the minds of Henri Moore and Salvador Dali!

Local produce features highly in our picnic lunch which we can enjoy out in the bush before exploring more of the Island. Depending upon the day we might take a walk to a secluded cove, or watch for a platypus by a quiet pool. Return to the eastern end via Vivonne Bay, one of the breeding areas of the Little Penguin. These are the smallest of all penguins and are sometimes seen sheltering in their nest burrows.