meander

the plan for friday was to brave the weather and ride to Cape Jervis where we would catch the ferry to Kangaroo Island. since it was going to rain for the next few days we had booked into the YHA in Penneshaw on KI for three nights.

it rained solidly all thursday night but had cleared up by the time we had breakfast and started packing the bikes. it is only 30km from Normanville to Cape Jervis so we thought it would be easy after the longer previous days. also since we were taking the highway instead of back roads it should have been flatter. unfortunately it was still quite steep with lots of 8-10% climbs and we ended up riding through cloud, mist and rain most of the way.

the last 5km dropped 350m back to the coast where we grabbed some food and narrowly missed a ferry.

we caught the next ferry and watched the crazy car/truck puzzle required because they roll on and off at the same end. (later, kai spent 20 minutes watching a B-double attempt to reverse down the loading ramp and into a narrow lane between cars while the owners watched on).

 

once on KI we found our hostel (100m from the jetty) and checked in. it seems a friendly little place.

saturday has been a "rest day", but included a 2-hour hike into the local conservation park. there appears to be a millipede plague at the moment which made the walk quite crunchy and a little disgusting. in fact, kai refused to walk because he was too scared of them.

 

we got to see some local wallabies that blended amazingly into the local scrub.

i've uploaded photos off the DSLR to http://pics.devcoder.net/Travel/SA in addition to the ones we'd already uploaded.