Kangaroo Island Resorts
Kangaroo Island in Australia is a highly popular tourist destination with a wealth of activities and sights and this ensures that it is rich in luxurious resorts for all those who want to stay there.
Kangaroo Island is the third largest island in Australia after Tasmania and Melville Island. It is located 112Km South West of Adelaide near the entrance of Gulf St Vincent and is 150Km long and 900m-57Km wide depending on the point. The area covered in total is 4,405Km2. It was created over 9,000 years ago by a rise in sea level, and Aboriginal stone tools found at the site suggest the island was inhabited 11,000 years ago – though these indigenous people disappeared around 200BC presumably due to disease, inbreeding, climate change and mass exodus. The island was originally named Kangaroo Island by British explorer Matthew Flinders. The largest town on Kangaroo island is Kingscote. The island is also very famous for its honey and is the oldest bee sanctuary in the world. Kangaroo island maintains the only surviving colony of Ligurian honey bees.
As the name seems to evoke, Kangaroo island is also well known for its wildlife and this is why many tourists make the journey each year. 50% of the island is still covered by vegetation and a quarter is conserved as National Parks and Conservation Parks. These include Flinders Chase National Park, Seal Bay Conservation Park, ravine des Casoars Wilderness Protection Area, Cape Bouguer Wilderness Protection Area and Cape Gantheaume Consercation Park. Many animals are local to the island including the Kangaroo Island kangaroo, Rosenberg’s sand goanna, the New Zealand fur seal, the short beaked echidna and the Southern brown bandicoot among others. There are also endemic species meaning they are encountered nowhere else such as the small marsupial ‘Kangaroo Island dunnart. Koalas have flourished on the island also.
Tourists then can enjoy the parks and the wildlife then but there is plenty more to see and do besides. For instance they can enjoy the Kangaroo Island Penguine Center, the lookout at Mount Thisby (providing a 360 degrees view of the island), the Kelly Hill Caves and many amazing land formations such as the Remarkable Rocks and Admiral’s Arch. For many seeing sealions come out at seal’s bay is a highlight, It is also a popular area for camping and for hiking – particularly Cape Borda and Cape du Couedic. Little Sahara meanwhile provides huge sand dunes which creates the impression of being in the middle of a sandy desert.
As such then it is little wonder that Kangaroo Island resorts are so popular among holiday makers. Kangaroo Island is one of Australia’s most regularly visited areas and attracts more than 140,000 visitors every year. If you want to see some truly amazing wildlife that you’re unlikely to see anywhere else, see some spectacular natural land formations and geography, and enjoy a relaxed atmosphere and highly pleasing holiday climate that’s always warm then there are few better places to go than Kangaroo Island.
There is a wide range of kangaroo island accommodation to suit different budgets. All bring you close to the nature which is the reason most people come to kangaroo island.
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