Where's the Wardies?: Flinders Chase and Seal Bay

After a day of doing nothing at all, we decided to go for a bit of a drive yesterday to the other end of the Island for a look at Flinders Chase National Park. Most of the bushland was burnt away in the December 2007 fires, so for most of the drive all we could see was dead shrubbery but with plenty of regrowth. It'll be a few years yet before it is "pretty" again I think. The landscape didn't detract from our destination at all though, as what we had come to see was Admiral's Arch, a cave/tunnel through the cape sheltering a colony of Australian and New Zealand Fur Seals. Quite a pretty place.

A few kilometers along the coast was our other destination: Remarkable Rocks. This is a collection of large boulders atop a dome of rock at the sea's edge which have been sculpted by years of weather. They are remarkably well named :)

After a lunch stop along the road we hit our final destination for the day: Seal Bay. This is a consveration park set aside for a colony of Sea Lions. We went on a guided tour which took us down onto the beach where we sat just 10m away from part of the colony. It is the breeding season so there was a good mix of males, females and juveniles on the beach, and they were quite active as well. The 45 minutes went by in a flash. We could easily have stayed there the whole day. That was $14 very well spent!