2423.jpg=Cape du Couedic - Rock pool where the young seals can have fun and develop their swimming skills
S72410.jpg=Flinders Chase National Park, visitor centre - we paid for our entry and camping fees and after talking to a very helpful lady, left for our drive to (first) the Remarkable Rocks
DSC_0046.JPG=Rocky River wilderness walk - noisy New Holland Honyeater
244.jpg=Cape Barren Geese (page 30)
2415.jpg=Cape du Couedic - New Zealand Fur Seals
S7247.jpg=Flinders Chase National Park -  Remarkable Rocks
S7248.jpg=Flinders Chase National Park -  Remarkable Rocks. This information panel explained the features of the Xenoliths. Amazingly, before we had read the information, we actually had taken a picture of that very one amongst probably hundreds of Xenoliths
S7256.jpg=Rocky River wilderness walk flora
253.jpg=Rocky River wilderness walk - Kangaroo Island kangaroos.
2512.jpg=CAustralian Magpies (page 424) are so common that we rarely take a picture, but they sometimes have a lovely pattern on their back
245.jpg=Flinders Chase National Park -  Remarkable Rocks
S7257.jpg=Rocky River wilderness walk flora - a broken "Jaffa" plant, very similar to the "Grass Tree". The Jaffa grows at about 1cm per year meaning that the one on the left of pic would be more than 100 years old
2413.jpg=Cape du Couedic lighthouse built in 1909
20170524_145748.jpg=Our next stop was at Weirs Cove where the lighthouse keekpers had their supplies stored
2414.jpg=Cape du Couedic - New Zealand Fur Seals
DSC_0044.JPG=Flinders Chase National Park -  Remarkable Rocks
S7249.jpg=Flinders Chase National Park, visitor centre art works
20170524_155417.jpg=Cape du Couedic - Admirals Arch and the Southern Ocean
25Pan01.JPG=Next morning at Rocky River camp ground
2511.jpg=Olive-Backed Oriole (page 416)
2422.jpg=Cape du Couedic - Rock pool where the young seals can have fun and develop their swimming skills
254.jpg=Rocky River wilderness walk - Kangaroo Island kangaroos.
S7258.jpg=Rocky River wilderness walk flora - Banksia
S7253.jpg=Rocky River waterholes
2417.jpg=Cape du Couedic - the Southern Ocean is constantly pounding the shoreline
DSC_0137.JPG=Cape du Couedic - Admirals Arch and the Southern Ocean
DSC_0078.JPG=Kangaroo Island kangaroos.
DSC_0057.JPG=Olive-Backed Oriole (page 416)
S7245.jpg=Flinders Chase National Park -  Remarkable Rocks
24Pan07.JPG=Cape du Couedic - Lighthouse keepers cottages for the 3 families of the keepers
S72412.jpg=Weirs Cove supplies storehouse
255.jpg=Rocky River wilderness walk - Kangaroo Island kangaroos.
2421.jpg=Cape du Couedic - near Admirals Arch the ocean waves drive over high rocks creating this pool where the young seals can have fun and also develop their swimming skills
DSC_0034.JPG=Rocky River wilderness walk - Kangaroo Island kangaroos.
S7252.jpg=Rocky River wilderness walk flora
S6RR.jpg=Flinders Chase National Park -  Remarkable Rocks
S7246.jpg=Flinders Chase National Park -  Remarkable Rocks
S72411.jpg=Weirs Cove - Flying fox pathwway excavation
2416.jpg=Cape du Couedic - Life is tough for young Fur Seals. Mum is probably out to sea looking for food and can be away for days. This young one scarmbles over dangerous gaps looking for his Mum
S6AA.jpg=Cape du Couedic - Admirals Arch and the Southern Ocean
S725.jpg=On our site at at Rocky River camp ground, we are surrounded by the very prickly "Bugger Bush". Actually drew blood on Joy
256.jpg=Rocky River wilderness walk - noisy New Holland Honyeater
S7259.jpg=Rocky River wilderness walk flora - Banksia
DSC_0093.JPG=Cape du Couedic - New Zealand Fur Seals
20170524_133937.jpg=Flinders Chase National Park -  Remarkable Rocks
20170524_145424.jpg=Weirs Cove
S724Pan12.JPG=Weirs Cove
243.jpg=Arriving at Flinders Chase National Park, we were greeted by two pairs of Cape Barren Geese (page 30)
2420.jpg=Cape du Couedic - When he finds a likely teat and tries his luck, he gets barked at and has to scurry off quickly
S7251.jpg=Rocky River wilderness walk back through the swamp and to our campsite.Thankfully excellent boardwalks have been built in the very low/wet areas
DSC_0041.JPG=Rocky River wilderness walk flora
257.jpg=Rocky River wilderness walk - noisy New Holland Honyeater
2410.jpg=Flinders Chase National Park - below the Remarkable Rocks, this Pacific Gull was trying to dislodge something tasty while all the time having to take off to dodge the large waves
S724.jpg=Flinders Chase National Park -  Remarkable Rocks
S7242.jpg=Flinders Chase National Park -  Remarkable Rocks
20170524_160507.jpg=Cape du Couedic - the Casuarina Islands
249.jpg=Flinders Chase National Park -  Remarkable Rocks
S7243.jpg=Flinders Chase National Park -  Remarkable Rocks
2419.jpg=Cape du Couedic - New Zealand Fur Seals
S72414.jpg=Cape du Couedic
DSC_0180.JPG=Cape du Couedic - the Southern Ocean is constantly pounding the shoreline
DSC_0023.JPG=Rocky River wilderness walk - Kangaroo Island kangaroos.
20170525_141844.jpg=Rocky River wilderness walk flora - growing side by side, three different prickly plants
S7241.jpg=Flinders Chase National Park -  Remarkable Rocks
S7244.jpg=Flinders Chase National Park -  Remarkable Rocks
26.jpg=Very pretty Scarlet Robin (page 454) at our campsite for the final night at Flinders Chase national park
2426.jpg=Back at Rocky River campground we saw this Tammar Wallaby. The Tammar Wallaby is much smaller than a typical Wallaby and has finer features than a Kangaroo. Mainland populations are extinct in south-eastern Australia, with just a small population surviving in WA.
DSC_0018.JPG=Rocky River wilderness walk - Kangaroo Island kangaroos.
2418.jpg=Cape du Couedic - Life is tough for young Fur Seals. Mum is probably out to sea looking for food and can be away for days. This young one scarmbles over dangerous gaps looking for his Mum
258.jpg=Rocky River wilderness walk flora
24Pan08.JPG=Cape du Couedic - the Casuarina Islands
S72413.jpg=Cape du Couedic lighthouse and the kerosene storehouse (built much like an explosives battery)
S72417.jpg=Cape du Couedic
246.jpg=Flinders Chase National Park -  Remarkable Rocks
2412.jpg=Caves at Weirs Cove
25.jpg=On our walk to Rocky River Platypus waterholes. Cape Barren Geese in the swamp area
2510.jpg=Olive-Backed Oriole (page 416)
2425.jpg=Cape du Couedic - Rock pool where the young seals can have fun and develop their swimming skills
259.jpg=Rocky River wilderness walk flora - Banksia
20170524_134402.jpg=Flinders Chase National Park -  Remarkable Rocks
20170524_155055.jpg=Cape du Couedic - Admirals Arch and the Southern Ocean
S7254.jpg=Rocky River wilderness walk flora - burnt timbers from the devastating 2007 fire
2411.jpg=Flinders Chase National Park - Pacific Gull (page 242) at Remarkable Rocks.
251.jpg=Rocky River wilderness walk - Kangaroo Island kangaroos. The islands isolation has meant some species have evolved differently to those on the mainland. It is evident in this kangaroo which is a sub-species of the Western Grey Kangaroo, but smaller, darker and with longer fur than its mainland cousin
S72416.jpg=Cape du Couedic - Admirals Arch and the Southern Ocean
2424.jpg=Cape du Couedic - Rock pool where the young seals can have fun and develop their swimming skills
20170524_150048.jpg=Weirs Cove looking toward Cape du Couedic
248.jpg=Flinders Chase National Park - view from the Remarkable Rocks to Weir Cove and the flying fox cutting, built to lift supplies for the lighthouse keepers
DSC_0134.JPG=Cape du Couedic - Admirals Arch and the Southern Ocean
247.jpg=Flinders Chase National Park -  Remarkable Rocks
S7255.jpg=Rocky River wilderness walk
S72415.jpg=Admirals Arch stairway affected by wind and spray from the Southern Ocean
252.jpg=Rocky River wilderness walk - Kangaroo Island kangaroos.
