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 |
|---|---|
| 29/9/06 | Guests came back excited from their early morning cliff top walk to report that they had just watched a whale breach and spout quite a number of times. This was very exciting as we have not had many whale sightings over the last couple of years - now three in about six months.They also saw a Beautiful Firetail, a Honey Eater and other birds. |
| 26/9/06 | We saw 3 Wedgetail eagles over the cliffs today, they love to play in the updrafts at the cliff edge. David then went up our track to tag 25 Spiny Wattle plants (to collect seed from for Trees for Life). He also tagged 15 Pultenaea Daphenoides. On Sunday 23rd we saw 4 Wallabies with joeys feeding on the front lawn at sunset, then on Monday morning a silvereye was observed drinking from the birdbath. Today David walked to our furthest gully for the first time to discover a large stand of Native Apricots, some flowering and also with fruits. |
| 6/9/06 | On Sunday David went and sprayed the Bridle Creeper patch with the fungal rust solution.It will take some time to act but in some places on KI it is very effective. We continue to see Wedge Tail Eagles almost daily. On one of the days walking back from checking on the sheoak plantings David saw a crow harrassing one of the eagles. A black and white faced bird seen on the cliff top walk has been identified as a Chat. On Monday David spent quite some time out the front clearing around the BBQ area. It was interesting to see and hear all the bird activity including a Kestrel harassing the two Wedgies that turned up to use the cliff updraft which in turn harrassed the Sea Eagle flying past. |
| 8/8/06 | Tues 25/7 Two wedge tail eagles were roosting in a branch overhanging our track as David drove to Parndana to teach for the day. Sat 29/7 Our guests saw 3 echidnas for the day on their travelsincluding one about 2 km up our track. Fri 4/8 Our guests helped us to plant 25 Drooping Sheoaks (Glossy Black cockatoo feeding trees) on a bare hill, 1.5 km E of us. On the way back we saw a sea eagle perched on a rock stack by pebble beach. Sat 5/8 Lots of orchids in Orchid gully: Greenhoods, veined helmet orchids with purple hoods,spider orchids just growing stems and pink fairies lanceolate leaves to be seen. Mon 7/8 Did some Bridle creeper control burning of dense dead prickly kangaroo thorn and saw another roosting tree for the pair of wedge tail eagles. |
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