We certainly packed a full itinery in today's sightseeing with a first pit stop at Little Sahara in the morning on our way to the furthest corner of the Island. As the name suggests this consisted of a series of sand dunes and is promoted as a place to sand board or tobogan. Unfortunately the boogie boards we attempted to ride down proved too sticky for any speedy descents but we promised the kids to return on our last day and hire some tobogans from the local shop!
Next stop was the Lighthouse at Cape Couedic( fab lighthouse,very pretty for anyone vaguely interested in lighthouses) and then onto Admiral's arch to watch the fur seal colony there. These seemed a lot more lively than the sea lions and we enjoyed watching them surfing in their chosen cove. They obviously have great taste in views having chosen a very scenic spot to set up house. It proved quite hard to pull ourselves away from this area especially as we all fought over the cameras and who could take the best shot through the arch and onto the colony!
The next stop also proved to be a photographer's dream as we rollicked amongst the Remarkable Rocks, pieces of hardened laval rocks shaped by exposure into some unusual but artisitic figures. We proceeded to adopt a variety of arty poses in order to show the rocks and us off to our best vantage and so needed some lengthy time at this spot.
Now running out of time and energy, we took a last bush walk around platypus walk and although no playtpii were actually visualised in the small fermenting puddle presented at the end of a 3 mile hike , we did encounter two varieties of wallabies and finally kangeroos in the flesh and not dead flesh in the form of road kill! Yay!!!
We even saw a wedge tailed eagle feeding off dead something on the tarmac before launching off as we headed down the road on our way back to Pandarma for food only just making it in time for the last food orders at the only hotel for miles around with a bare 10 minutes to spare!!!!
Could have been nasty!!!
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