Glenelg!

My family and I lived in Glenelg till I was ten years old and we spent a lot of our times on the beach. It has a lot of great memories for me. It has become so much more developed since then, you can big hotels and waterslides in the background here, but it was still a great place to visit.

The water is a lot flatter then the Queensland beaches, but so sparkling and clear.

We just loved it.

It was a really cod day for summer, so I have my jumper on. Three days later it was about 43 degrees!

Here are the boys, so keen to hop into there water!

Can't go past the lolly shop!

We had to get a gelatti! Hayden is trying out Banana and Mark had a Bacci which is chocolate and hazelnut. Yummy!

Hayden in front of the tram, he would of really loved to have a ride, but we ran out of time.

So good to back again and the Orange Spot bakery, which we used to go to all the time, was still selling custard tarts, frog cupcakes and kitchener buns. So yummy!

Seal Bay, Kangaroo Island

The last time I came to Seal Bay, I have a vague memory of walking over a huge sand dune, then seeing some seals on the beach. These days it is much more fancy. Look at this huge boardwalk down to the seal area!

My boys saw this as a great opportunity to have a race.

 

Look at these cool bones, they look like a type of dinosaur's! They are of of young humpback whale that caught on the beach.

Kangaroo Island had three types of seal on the island. Australian sea lions, Australian fur seals and New Zealand fur seals. The sea lions prefer the sandy back where as the fur seals like rocks (pictures of the fur seals coming soon).

 

How cute are these little sea lions! They stayed together the whole time we were down.

How cute is this photo of a Mother and baby.

Here you can seethe beach with a whole lot of seals. It took a while for us to work out which were the makes and which were the females.

 

Here is a seal coming out of the water.

It was such a lovely place to visit.So beautiful.

 

Here is just a random picture of the clouds, they were like little cotton balls that day! :)

 

The Best Beach in the World- Stokes Bay, Kangaroo Island

This must be one of the best beaches I have ever been too.

The last time I went to Kangaroo Island, I think I was like ten. So this trip I am trying to remember the places I have been, but it is all very vague. I did remember the awesome beaches though.

So in the morning I was reading a guide book of Kangaroo Island and choose the North coast to go and explore. We arrive here at Stokes Bay and all we see are rocks. So we are thinking, 'ok cool, no swimming but we can have fun with the rock pools'. But there are heaps of cars parked everywhere and I am thinking where are all the people from these cars?

Then we see a little sign "Beach", this is starting to look really cool...

So we go up this path that winds its away around all these rocks...

A little cave...

And it comes out at the most interesting beach.

 

Part of the beach is those huge rock pool you can swim and snorkel in, it has quite a few different fish and is about waist deep. Then the rest of the bay is a normal beach where you can swim in the ocean and catch the waves, which Hayden just loved.

Mark tried a little fishing, but didn't have much luck.

It was such a warm, beautiful day.

 

 

In this shot you can see the rock pool, with the normal beach behind it, with the big hill that comes right up to the beach. How magical is that?

 

It was such a great day, we had to drag the kids home. Wishing I could be there right now!