Day 39 – October 9 2012

This morning was packing up camp & leaving Flinders Chase & we headed off for Kingscote.  The drive was uneventful, only a few cars heading the other way, none passing us & we only travel slowly.  The road is a pleasant drive, with natural bush on both sides of the road mostly, with farmland directly behind hiding the fat sheep.  Just before Kingscote we stopped at The Beehive where we tried their famous Ligurian honey.  Kangaroo Island’s pristine wilderness is the only area in the world where pure Ligurian bees are known to exist, we bought some to take home.  In Kingscote we had a short walk around town, checked out the shops, bought a few groceries & had lunch at Roger’s Café, disappointing after the quality of food at Flinders Chase Café.  We also had the mandatory walk on the local wharf, chatted to the solitary fisherman having no luck using maggots for bait.  There were 3 seals sunning themselves on the rocks at the start of the wharf, apparently they eat a lot of the squid & small fish that usually inhabit the wharf area & the local fishermen are not too happy about them.

On the short drive to Penneshaw we came across some rain showers & got to the caravan park just as the rain stopped.  We quickly set up & just as we finished it started to shower again, lucky for us.  A quite afternoon.