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The ice-cream stealing Italian

Our next destination was Penneshaw in Kangaroo Island, a tiny town where (literally) everything closes down by 8.30pm - we had to beg the pizza place to stay open for us when we ambled along at 8.15pm. It was really cold and windy, but we had a nice house to ourselves and stocked up on plenty of videos.
Kangaroo Island is known as having an abundance of wildlife, and was the real reason we'd come through Adelaide. What we'd failed to appreciate was that we were staying in a different area of the Island to where all the wildlife was and hence had to take a day tour to see some. Said your took us to the national park, where we saw plenty of kangaroos and koalas in the wild, which I was quite excited about. On our tour there was an Italian lady who stole an ice cream at lunch (I don't think she realised you had to pay for it) and, when told not to bang the trees because the koalas might pee on us, did it anyway - if onyl she'd got her comeuppance! We also went down into the bay to look at some seals but were put off by the hundreds of flies that were everywhere and kept landing on us - it was the only time I've actually thought it might be worth wearing one of those mosquito head nets!
After lunch we saw the remarkable rocks - strangely-shaped rocks that perch on a clifftop - and went down to Seal Bay where there were dozens of seals resting (and - grossly - regurgitating up their food). Italian woman got told off for going too near them and making cooing noises. Mind you, I probably would have done the same if not around about 20 other people.
Our final wildlife experience was to go and see the hundreds of little penguins that come in from sea every night at Penneshaw. Given that the town only has about 300 people living there we thought we might be the only people going, but actually there were many children, much to Patrick's dismay. Sometimes I think about how it must be alternately embarrassing and amusing to be a parent - when we were having a talk on the penguins one little girl stuck her hand up to say, "I really like baby penguins'" completely randomly, followed five minutes later by the gem, "I saw a penguin in a book last week!". The penguins were really cute and we saw lots of them on the way home - I had my home-made red torch with me, and made plenty of demonic-looking penguin photos (Laura R, is it you that talks about the evil penguin? Maybe you could make one of the photos its logo).
Whilst we werre in Kangaroo Island there was also a big news story; in Adelaide a man was eaten by a shark whilst being dragged along on a surfboard behind a boat off a popular beach in Adelaide. Subsequently, there were several search teams sent out to look for the shark and there were lots of pictures in the local papers of boats with huge huge sharks under them that might have been the perpetrator - that's the last time I'm going swimming in Australia!

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