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 |
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| 2/12/07 | Guests are continuing to see lots of wild life on our tours and in their own travels including Goannas, Echidnas, Kangaroos, Wallabies and Koalas. Possums only at night, Crimson Rosellas and Glossy Black Cockatoos at Lathami CP. At present mainly Kangaroos are drinking from the front bowl and only a few Wallabies. It was very surprising to see 10 Kangaroos in twos (likely to be mum and last year's joey generally) on a Coastal Wildlife Tour with guests. Not many new joeys this year no doubt due to the very dry last summer. Birds (Superb Fairy Wrens, Beautiful Firetails, Honey eaters, Silvereyes) continuing to prefer the water from the bowl on the ground to the pedestal water bath. |
| 5/11/07 | Guests over the last month or so have really enjoyed the variety of wild life around the retreat. As a consequence of putting out rainwater in a bowl at the front of the house during the last summer when it was so dry and there was no water in our dam, the birds, kangaroos and wallabies have continued to come up to drink. Almost every guest would have seen them up close from the comfort of our greenhouse. We have been surprised at the numbers of kangaroos eating grass on the front lawn late afternoon almost daily. Wallabies come later often at dusk. Some interesting sightings recently: * Guests touring with David saw 4 echidnas in a day (usually one seen every 2 days of touring) * 3 goannas seen in our orchard one day, lengths 50, 70 and 90cms * On a nocturnal tour guests seeing kangaroos bounding along our track, over 100 Tammar wallabies and 5 possums. * David saw a Stone Curlew chick on our track two nights ago only 300m from the house, our first sighting of a curlew on our property. * Guests yesterday saw dolphins when walking down to Pebble beach |
| 4/9/07 | On Thurs 16/8, a group of Year 10 students from Parndana Campus came to plant some Drooping Sheoak seedlings on a bare coastal area. We looked at a KI endangered plant along the way, Eutaxia Diffusa, a bush pea. On Friday 17/8 I went back to finish putting on guards more firmly (some had blown away overnight) and check on the patch of 10 E. Diffusa plants on the top of the next hill. They looked a healthy green after a very dry summer. Fri 24/8 Went and did a quick weed survey in Pebble Beach creek and found that the patch of dead Kangaroo Thorn infested with Bridle Creeper that was burned last year has only a few plants left. In the growing areas of Kangaroo Thorn that were treated with fungal rust last year the Bridle Creeper is really growing strongly and needs to be urgently deal with. The rust did not control the Bridle Creeper because it was sprayed just before it became dry. Friday 31/8 The wild flowers are starting to appear. Went rock collecting on our track and saw lots of Blue Fairies, an Orchid variety, Sundew and lots of green lanceolate leaves on the ground, most likely another Orchid variety. Mon 3/9 Went down Orchid Gully to do some surveying and weeding of Scotch Thistles. Photographed Pink and Blue fairies and some orange Fungi growing on dead branches in the creek. |
| 14/7/07 | On Thursday 12/7, 2 members of the Native Fish Australia Association came to survey fish in the Orchid Gully creek. They caught 5 Climbing Galaxias using a simple rod and line ranging in size from 140 to 183mm long in various pools so the fish were able to survive the recent long dry. On the way we noted Greenhood Orchids in flower, Spider Orchids growing stems and Veined Helmet Orchid and Pink Fairies leaves. The weeding campagne to remove Scotch Thistles is having an effect but there are still sporadic plants along the gully with some plants growing very strongly, all of which found were pulled out. Water flow rate measured at our flow metre pipe approximately double the normal rate at about 20 litres per min. |
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