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.
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| 23/4/04 | It has been ages since we have added to our diary, not because of lack of animal sightings but because we have been busy with lots of guests. Over the past month the wallabies have been having a great time on our front lawn much to our guests pleasure. We have also seen echidnas, kangaroos and possums. David has been watching a Monitor Lizard,or goanna, nest next to our road for the past month. Monitors dig a hole in a termite nest then lay their eggs. The termites cover the holes which protect the eggs. The Monitor then lays outside the nest protecting it from predators. We saw a Tiger Snake by the nest one day and no Monitors, which was a bit of a worry, But the next day the lizards were back so we think they must have fought off the snake. We stopped the car to have a look and the lizard attacked the car tyre so we think everything is going well for the eggs. This morning as well as the family of Fairy Wrens, a Crimson Rosella paid a visit to our front lawn. Yesterday several pairs of Rosellas flew past the house close by as well. They are really beautiful birds with a distinctive red breast and blue feathers. Some have green mottled backs suggesting that they were immature birds. There was great excitement yesterday when we heard a number of Glossy Black Cockatoo calls in the trees above the dam and then on the ocean side of our orchard. |
| 22/2/04 | David took our guests on a guided walk down to Pebble Beach. Five or Six wallabies hopped across the track as we started. Further down we encountered a kangaroo which just looked up and stared at us. We walked on further then turned and watched it quietly hop away. We walked down a gully onto the beach and past two rock stacks and started to look for fossil mud skippers in the cliff, seen previously by another guest. We then walked around to Driftwood Cove, named because of the large amounts of timber washed up in storms,we reached a large cave with Little Penguins nests in it. We walked a little further to a very narrow gap in the cliff where we could see two Little Penguins. An unusual sighting in the middle of the day!! As we sat to eat our picnic lunch watching the waves rush in and out a sea eagle soared above us up towards the top of the cliffs. Thursday 26th Feb Our guests decided to interrupt their evening meal to do a Sunset Tour followed by a Nocturnal Tour. After a short drive we arrived at a spot where two koalas were sitting peacefully in a tree. Nearby the guests were amazed at the number of KI Western Grey kangaroos that could be seen feeding not far from the car. At this place Tammar wallabies seem to be later arriving and as we watched two groups of four hopped across the road. On the drive back we encountered lots more wallabies and several Brush Tailed Possums. Our best view of a possum was at the beginning of our private road. It slowly ambled along allowing our guests the opportunity of many photos and a chance to get really close before it ran up a nearby tree. We then went to explore the beach for Little Penguins; we looked into about 6 burrows but as this is the time of the year when they are sea feeding just before breeding season we were not surprised that they were not at home!! |
| 20/2/04 | The wallabies are really giving the front lawn a trim!! It is about as short as it gets. Just on dusk there are 15 right in front of the house only metres away from us in the conservatory, eating away. |
| 9/2/04 | After a beautiful sunny hot weekend, we have woken up to a winters day in February!! I think that is one of the things I love most about living on the island, from one day to the next the weather can be so different. It means that every morning the sea is different. Yesterday it was like deep blue glass, this morning it is grey with white caps. There is something quite glorious about standing on top of a cliff with the wind whipping your hair looking out at the power of the sea. We had an amazing experience on Friday night. We were sitting in the conservatory having drinks with our guests watching the sunset when all of a sudden a great big buck koala came galloping past. I think he was as astonished as us. We all leapt up in amazement and he leapt off!! A very unusual sight as we do not often see koalas, not having the habitat for them. We know that food is becoming scarce in the bush as we draw towards the end of summer because more and more animals are appearing on the front lawn and our garden has disappeared apart from the things I have netted in. Any plant not netted has been eaten down to the stalk and we are only just able to maintain the grass. But it is lovely to see all the wallabies every evening and morning. |
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