where to go next? 
here!
We had a nice breakfast on a bench tasting the fresh bread that was satisfying, Doron and I made some pull-ups on the anchor of the sunken “Loch Vennachar” that was presented on the camping site and then we drove back to the Flinders Chase visitor’s center where M&M wanted to get coffee.
Meanwhile Doron pumped back air in the tyres that should be softer for the corrugated roads to be less destructive but now we would go mainly on sealed roads. When we wanted to leave Markus couldn’t because of people taking photos up to a tree and he saw Koalas. So, we joined the photographers with three more cameras.
We went on to a bay in the North, called Selling beach with a beautiful view
and then to the gin-distillery KI spirits for tasting and buying some Gin. I just smelled them and was surprised about the attractive and mostly sweet aroma.
Instead of gin, I bought an ice-cream and only in the evening ate it when it was very soft but besides that it was to sweet, even for me.
After tasting gin we tasted honey in Clifford’s Honey Farm
and soon arrived in Kingscote, the capital of the Island. We tried to find a place to fix the flat tyre and the broken screw. The tyre could be fixed but for changing the screw Markus will have to find another workshop on mainland because either they had no time, or they could not fix it.
We went for lunch while we waited for the tyre. M&M had a veggie salad and D+M shared a pizza, the only other veggie option in “the best restaurant” of Kingscote. We didn’t take S or M or L, we took P without knowing what it stands for. It was pretty big, and P means “party”. So, it was no problem to be full even when sharing it. To complete our waiting time, we went to a café, again the best of Kingscote and even Doron took an espresso although he most of the time before refused to drink any coffee, because he has very high expectations. He was not disappointed but also not in 7th heaven of coffee drinking.
We found a camping site in Penneshaw (where the ferry leaves the island) near the penguin centre and wanted to join a tour at 7:30 but it was fully booked, so we got offered a new tour at 8:30.
In the waiting time, I made a kind of interview regarding expectations and imaginations for my 2025 birthday gathering in Uganda. For me, this makes my own picture more and more colourful and gives more directions for planning.
Back at the centre, we all got torches, but only the guide found 2 penguins on our 45min walk.
Still it is something different to walk on the coastline at night trying to spot wild animals or to go in the zoo. The colony is endangered by dogs, cats and seals and not so much by humans themselves. But it happens the penguins go up the coast, cross the streets and even enter houses and this trip of course is dangerous.
