Kangaroo Island

Just some extra pics I wanted to add here.. I took a couple of hundred but feel these are the nicest of the bunch.


Looking across Emu Bay

Emu Bay Point from the end of the jetty

I sat on the steps they use to get on and off their boats on the end of the jetty at Emu Bay just to take in the silence of the area and relax awhile. You could hear a pin drop it was so quiet. I was so mesmerised by the water I didnt see the large fish swimming around under me but luckily I just managed to get one with the camera. If you click on the pic I have marked where the fish is. Always when you dont have a line to throw in.

The water so clear you can see the bottom. I couldnt stand in this water was as it was over my head.

The company settling the Island hoped the settlers could feed themselves. So they gave them livestock, sheep and cattle and had them plant orchards. The soil being light black loam was rich of nutrients and very productive. Sadly most of the trees were cut down except this one.
A single Mulberry tree 122 years old.
In 1886 the settlers planted 4 or 5 large almond trees and 2 Mulberry trees. This is all that remains of the trees. It is supported by the old flag pole that you can see in the centre of the tree and the fence surrounding it is electrified. Quite nasty on the knees as you lean against it to take a picture hahaha... They have succesfully been able to grow from the cuttings of this tree about 20 young Mulberry trees. But I couldnt get close enough for a picture.



The grave of the Vicar Willaim Airy from England died July 21st 1891 the son of Vicar William Airy England. William Airy from what I could gather was taken to K.I to keep the settlers faith up. He died there at a young age and was enclosed in his coffin which was then encased in cement and decorated accordingly and placed on the next ship to England where he was greeted by his father and Mother who then had his body placed back on the ship again and returned to K.I to rest in peace amongst the bushland he wrote to them often about constantly expressing his love for. Already fully encased he was just placed in the grounds facing the trees until some local jokers decided that it would be fun to start moving him about to different parts of the cemetary so that he could experience a different view every couple of weeks. This of course created fear in some people and tales of the moving Vicar and of his hauntings on the Island of hauntings. The jokers got over enthusiastic at one point and decided to move the poor Vicar out of the cemetary. This done they decided to buy him so that it made it difficult to move hm about.
The more the Vicar was moved someone decided to partially bury the coffin to avoid it being dragged about and destroyed.