Cape Cassini Wilderness Retreat, Kangaroo Island Hotel, hosted Bed and Breakfast Accommodation
Kangaroo Island, South Australia
Setting the standard; looking to the future:
The only accommodation in South Australia with Green Globe benchmarking
and Advanced Eco Tourism Accreditation
A Holiday with Peace of Mind.
When you stay with us you are treading lightly on the environment.
| Date | Entry |
|---|---|
| 26/7/10 | Fri 25/6 Three Little Penguins seen in burrows at Pebble Beach during the day Mon 5/7 Glossy Black Cockatoos heard calling up our track 1.5 km from the retreat when I went for a run. Fri 23/7 Another feral cat seen but this time at the top of our track not far from the North Coast road. |
| 20/4/10 | Fri 9/4 Toured guests today and it was great start to show them a Koala less than a kilometre from the Retreat in a nice low tree sighting. Sat 10/4 20mm of rain overnight. When it started, it was interesting to see all these "moths" flying about... thousands of them, seen under our outside light. Catching a few with a flour seive allowed a closer inspection. The moths turned out to be flying termites. They find a nice damp spot with food ( wet wood ) and start a new colony...in our house if the conditions are right ! Next morning walking in the orchard to feed the ducks two fat orb spiders had spun nice webs in the fig tree. Perhaps the web shows up better with raindrops on it. Tues 20/4 Saw a Feral cat while we were having a late afternoom drink on Saturday in front of the house.Put out some dog food and milk which was gone in the morning. Organised a trap with some old kitty cat food Sunday night and this morning a small grey tabby caught. Not quite what I thought I saw; perhaps there is another one ! In the meantime cat goes to the vet to be put down tomorrow. |
| 22/3/10 | Feb 21 Putting up the washing on the line and along came a 70cm goanna up to our gate, tasting the air with its tongue. It calmly seemed to stroll in with our dog only a few metres away lazing / sleeping in the sun and headed straight for a piece of spare ribs, (dog bones from the butcher). The goanna picked it up and shook it vigorously, put it down and wiped all the meat ants off its face. It then grabbed up the spare ribs and darted out under the gate, stopped, shook the ribs again, put it down, wiped face and then raced off with the meat. Dog in the meantime had sat up, watching with some interest but clearly not fussed about it all. Overfed ! March: Putting out kykuyu grass regularly from the orchard. Water put out twice a day. Record numbers of kangaroos, 8 some days. Mar 20: A 45 cm Goanna seen up our track by a large hole in a termite mound partly backfilled. Surely there is no connection, but goannas lay eggs in termite mounds in summer! Mar 21. 10 kangaroos at 6pm on our front 'lawn' eating kikuyu.6 Tamar Wallabies there,too, eating sparse 'lawn' grass but not near the kangaroos !. |
| 2/2/10 | Net mending yesterday up a ladder when there was quite a commotion. A big group of our Tammar wallabies, perhaps about 15 in all, were under the sheoaks right where I was, excitedly jumping about. Then a number of them seemed to be having a wrestle and rolling on the ground. Next thing one of them raced off to be persued by a line of wallabies all chasing after it. A short while later they were back with a number of wallies interacting with a whole crowd of interested onlookers. Then they were off again and I went back to net mending. It reminded me of a line of male Echidnas following a female. It is summer which is wallaby breeding season so thats probably what it was all about. |
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