Off to the light house today – the road is long and the worst ever!!!  And we almost got run off the road by 3 utes speeding past us with their piggin dogs on the worst road on the island. Funny we didn’t think there would be feral pigs here, but yes – thanks to some non farming war vets from the 50’s and French sailors from the 1800’s –  who released their pigs its happy days for pig shooters.

The light house is the shortest in SA and the highest above sea level – very steep cliffs – hence its size. It almost got wiped out by the fires a few years ago, but only managed to loose the ‘c’ on the sign. 90% of the National Park was burnt out.

A great tour that ended with a bang.

After this loud firing, we drove to Flinders Chase NP and headed for the Sandy Creek Hike. Its on the western side of the island and the ocean is crashing onto this beach – next point of land from here would be South America. We walked along the creek, it then turned into dunes, and we walked out a gully in the dunes, to a beach with weird rock formations and great rockery plants and caves. It felt like somewhere sea hobbits would live.

Max had the most fun on the way back out!

From here a 30 min drive to the Admirals Arch, boy on this south western tip of the island it was soooo windy!! Not uncommon to receive 12m swells just off shore.

This is the home to a colony of NZ fur seals, but we think they aren’t as great as sea lions – these ones smell like wet dogs.

We pack up our camp tomorrow and head for a new site on the Eastern side of KI and get ready for some familiar faces. Western KI park has been great – except the weather!