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Went crabbing yesterday with friends from church at Thompson Beach.

In fact, I wasn’t interested, I just want to watch and also to go somewhere I’ve never been to. I walked towards the sea with them but I turned back half way because it’s too far away. I wasn’t dressed for it too ;p Took me almost 45 minutes to walk and and forth.

There’s quite a number of signs along the way, wonder it’s for the boats? At least something I’ve never seen before.

Crab on the way I walked back and one of the bucket of crabs they caught.

At night, we had crab feast! The one on the left was cooked with beer and the one on the right was cooked with creamy butter. Now I know how to cook creamy butter crab or prawn! I’ve been wondering how, finally I know how. Had curry crab at another friend’s house before this. Feasting on crabs the whole night at two houses! Forgot to take the photo of the first crab dish.

Many suffered from sunburn after that. Including me but mine is rather mild, only the back of my leg as I didn’t properly applied the sunblock there. Luckily I wore a hat and wrapped my body with scarf. I didn’t get burnt but is now rather tanned. Australia’s sun is HARSH!

The missing Little Sahara photos.


Didn’t snowboard though, too hot and too lazy to go all the way up. Very sandy too! I might suffer from blindness if I did. Sand is a big no-no for contact lens wearer.

After Little Sahara we went to the wildlife park. Then we headed to KI Spirits for alcohol tasting!! Many people were looking forward to this, including me.

I bought a bottle as souvenir. I bought:

Honey and Walnut Liqueur
Made with freshly roasted Walnuts and Kangaroo Islands famous Ligurian Honey. A rich and spicy dessert liqueur great on ice cream or with coffee (affogato) – recently described as liquid hot cross buns.
33% Alc/vol

I’m not gonna drink this, it will be part of my collection back home *LOL* At first I wanted to buy Pink Lily Strawberry Liqueur but they didn’t have smaller bottle as I didn’t want a big one, too hard and too heavy to move around since I need to move from one place to another and need to get it back all the way to Malaysia.

Our last stop, for dinner, pizza dinner at Hog Bay.

Group photos 🙂 Many Malaysians on this trip.

Finally! I stepped foot on Kanagaroo Island. Will I go back again? No… Once is enough. Not that it’s not good, it was good but just not my type of destination that I will revisit unless it’s all expenses paid hehehe…

To the seal we go…

Blue blue sky, blue blue sea, and a baby seal looking for its mother.

First time see such creature with my own eyes! Always it was on TV. Never thought would have the chance to see the real ones.

After that, we headed to Vivione Bay for simple lunch. Not sure what’s the name of this accommodation though ;p didn’t pay attention.

Next we headed to Little Sahara for sandboarding. I forgot to edit this photos! -.-” Will make it up in the next post.

Then, we went to Parndana Wildlife Park for kangaroo feeding, koala spotting and so on. It’s not a very big place. Was expecting it to be something huge but it’s very small and intimate park.

The highlight would be feeding the kangaroo. You’re on Kangaroo Island! It’s a must to see and feed kangaroo! Else, how is the trip gonna be complete? Even though you can always do it at other places in Australia, the species here different from those on the mainland. So that’s the unique part.

Finally, said goodbye to Stanley Bites. He would give you huge reaction and cry!!

After this place, we went for spirit tasting. To be continued…

Finally I went to Kangaroo Island after missing two chances last year and this year organized by the uni. I got an e-mail that one of the travel agents here is offering it for AUD170 for a day trip, I didn’t think twice but went for it because it’s so cheap! Usually it will cost at least AUD250 for even a day trip!

On 24th November, 6am, I headed to the bus station to join the tour.

Excited!

Left: Bye mainland! We’re heading to the island.
Right: First stop, Prospect Hill.

Had to climb all the way up using the stairs of course. In the middle of the day! Fricking hot!

I’m on top! Very hot!!!

After that, we headed to see seals as Seal Bay!

While waiting for the group to gather for seal watch, we just roam around the information centre.

Gonna see the seals soon…