Kangaroo island: Australia caravan

For: Alvaro López Rupérez (text and photos)
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As when one remembers the woman who always love, I still feel a knot in my stomach when I deploy my map Kangaroo island and I remember kilometers traveled in that remote island just a few miles apart on the south coast of Australia. Kangaroo island compensates for any displacement. Alone already worth traveling to almost antipodes. Here nature is presented in a total state. Its beauty is shown without counterweights. The island plays with your mind and challenges you to imagine more beautiful, more perfect. But you can not, lose by a landslide.

For its little more than 4.000 km square rivers flow, lagoons, forests, vastísimos fences, trails escorted by groves, cliffs dream, rolling hills, Fallen trees by the wind, to small bays and sandy deserts where one would spend the rest of his life. Inhabit white sand beaches, of rocky headlands, colored stones with unreal forms… Yes, many types of beaches but all with a common bond: a latent beauty that is reinforced with the great loneliness of the place.

The island plays with your mind and challenges you to imagine more beautiful, more perfect

Highlight places is easy and difficult at the same time because it involves placing each other and all are perfect disciples of this magical island. It would be a mistake to walk this corner of the Indian / Pacific non-leave nothing unexplored. Places like Island beach, Pennington bay, Snelling beach con su Constitution hill, Remarkable rocks, Ellen point with Vivonne Bay or Western River Cove not leave anyone indifferent. It is no coincidence that Vivonne Bay has been voted the best beach around Australia by students from the University of Sydney.

For us it is not the best beach, bay but the hosts. Sus clear, turquoise crystal waters, its pier which hosts friendly local fishermen (especially crabs), natural areas for picnicking and vegetation combined with white sands and pristine bay make another magical place to sit and admire this privileged corner of Australia. Vivonne Bay It is another place where one is glad to have chosen the caravan as a means of transport to meet Australia, that allows you to prepare breakfast, food or a simple coffee to accompany the stop.

It is no coincidence that Vivonne Bay has been voted the best beach in Australia

Across the bay (only 10 minute walk) is Ellen Point, a place where the waters of the Southern Ocean impetuously hit the cliffs and rocks while photographers display their best arts, lovers embrace hard and the most experienced fishermen struggling against the wind.

The highest point of the island is a hill called Prospect Hill, which is accessed after rising 510 wooden steps. From the top one can be recreated with the passage of American River, the serenity of Pelican Lagoon and the vastness of the ocean surrounding the island. Was Matthew Flinders, the discoverer of the island, the first to come up here and see these views 360 degrees.

Ellen Point lovers embrace hard and the most experienced fishermen struggling against the wind

I Kangaroo Island, people crossing share the same gestoboquiabierto, They greet each other in silence and still enjoy feeling close to the ends of the earth in a place that feeds more than the senses and soothes much more than sight. We were happy. It was one of our first destinations in Australia and we were beginning to see evidence that the country of kangaroos is one of those inalienable destinations and Kangaroo Island reported us great happiness. At that time, beauty was the vessel and happiness content.

The soundtrack of the island is the wind, sea ​​and silence. Animal life seems to understand. The woolly sheep and cows well fed they stop eating your way and you examine a strange reconociéndote. You should go to the coast to listen to the sea lions and birds to consummate a melting pot of what most satisfying sensations. Sea lions seem lazy and shiftless, but they travel huge distances. Wolves cavort with rocks on Kangaroo Island have been seen on Montague Island coast or in the very New Zealand. These are called Kiwis sea lions.

The roads are often accompanied by dead kangaroos along the edges

And kangaroos. Not to come here to see them, because all are but Australia, course, a companion more luxury stay on this island, fortunately very carefully by Australian tourism. recommendations are not free not to drive at night and even several rental companies do not ensure accidents that occur beyond the sunset.

The roads are often accompanied by dead kangaroos along the edges, although this happens all over Australia. The initial scares are followed by the explanations of the "aussies" the next morning. And is that the Kangaroos in darkness and blinded by the lights, They lose their orientation and they run for either side, which makes it really easy to run over.

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