Cape Cassini Wilderness Retreat, Kangaroo Island B&B Hotel

Setting the standard; looking to the future:
The only accommodation in South Australia with Green Globe benchmarking
and Advanced Eco Tourism Accreditation

Kangaroo Island, South Australia

Holiday with peace of mind knowing when you stay with us you are treading lightly on the environment.

Activities
The area surrounding the retreat offers a range of activities with equipment available for guest use.

Activities include:
  - Bushwalking
  - Fishing
  - Swimming
  - Snorkelling
  - Bird watching
  - Stargazing
  - Collecting native plant seed, watering /planting seedlings, weeding.
  - Simply relaxing and enjoying the serenity.

“Thanks for such a relaxing and comfortable stay. The views are beautiful, the wilderness is adventurous, never done any hiking before but it was great.”
J & E Griffin SA

Fishing and snorkelling equipment is available for $15.00 a day per person. We also have binoculars, a telescope and a number of information books in the library on local flora and fauna and the stars.

The wilderness area surrounding the retreat has some magnificent bushwalking through gullies, gums and bush. The walks around the retreat have eco certification and range from quite easy walking to quite difficult. The gullies provide excellent walking, as does a clifftop walk, or at low tide you can walk for kilometres along the coastal wave cut platform.

Along Orchid gully, about a 20 minute walk through wilderness terrain along a stream, there is a 10 metre waterfall and a great lunch spot. Native fish and a few yabbies live in the pond at the base of the waterfall and the end of this gully comes out at the sea.

In the summertime there is often a pristine white beach with a magnificent swimming area where we swim, snorkel and fish.

Guided Walking Tours

Many of our guests ask to do a guided walking tour with David who is able to point out and name endangered or vulnerable plants, where to look for animals, unusual things such as inch ant nests, Goanna and Echidna diggings, animal footprints and casts. The most popular walks are:

Coastal Wildlife to see Little Penguin burrows and perhaps a penguin or two, Pebble beach survey to check for unusual items washed ashore (we found a message in a bottle recently). Children like to hunt under rocks and in rock pools for crabs etc. For the more agile, a look for caves such as Cray Pot Float Cave, Thunder Cave, Penguin Cave and hunt for Fossils. Perhaps try the Drunk Seaman's Nerve Test to get to Driftwood Cove where we can play "Stone Age Baseball".

Orchid Gully Wildlife to look for evidence of Glossy Black Cockatoos, spot Native Fish, hunt for 6 or more species of Orchids, unusual plants such as Native Cherries, Apricots and Fungi. View our 10m Waterfall and perhaps have a bush BBQ. Measure the rate of flow in the creek and take a water sample for testing. Do a weed survey (and perhaps some weeding). Hunt for yabbies.

Cliff Top Views to see and identify an endangered plant, spot an Echidna Burrow, a land slip, pick Native Cherries for "Trees for Life", hunt for Bridle Creeper (and remove it if we find it) and enjoy spectacular scenery.