#9 Kangaroo Island - Little Penguins & Little Sahara

After about five weeks in Adelaide (where nothing significant happened because we mostly worked there), our journey continued. The destination was Kangaroo Island.

From Adelaide, you drive about 1.5 hours to Cape Jervis Port and then take a 40-minute ferry ride. On the island, you arrive in the town of Penneshaw. That's where we stayed at our hostel, "Kangaroo Island Backpackers," right on the beach and near the ferry. It was the cleanest hostel we have had so far. We definitely recommend it!

For our first evening, we booked a night walk. We had heard before that you can see penguins on the beach at night on Kangaroo Island. Of course, we didn't want to miss that.

We started at 8:00 p.m. The price is $13 per person for a 45-minute hike. We were lucky and were the only ones who booked the tour, so we essentially had a private tour.

The tour guide was not exactly an entertainer, rather he reminded us of a crazy physicist or professor, but you could tell that he knew exactly where he had to lead us and where the penguins were.

We actually saw a few penguins, but they were so far away that we had to look through binoculars. So we don't have any pictures to upload here.

Summary of the penguin night walk: If you enjoy walks, we definitely recommend it. However, don't go with the expectation of seeing flocks of penguins and getting close to them.

The next day, we gathered information at the tourist information and on the Internet about what else you can experience on the island. We quickly realized that without a car, you're pretty lost here. We left our car on the mainland because the ferry for the car would have cost $200 round trip. We also relied on our boss here (we had the prospect of cleaning jobs) to give us one of his cars, as he had said beforehand. In the meantime, however, he had to hire a full-time worker who also used the car. So unfortunately, we had little work and no means of transportation. And since there are no public transportation on the island at all, we decided to rent a car for two days.

We could pick up the car right here at the ferry port - very practical and uncomplicated.

Since Meykel was able to earn some extra money in the morning with gardening work, we started our road trip in the afternoon. We went straight to "Little Sahara." It's an area of ​​about 2 square kilometers with huge sand dunes where you can go sandboarding. You pay $37 per person for two hours, which includes admission, a board, and wax to make the board faster. Personally, we find that slightly overpriced, but it was a lot of fun. However, we wouldn't do it again.

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