Escorted Holidays with Shirley Tamm

Shirley is a well-known travel identity and Tour Escort with over 36 years’ experience in the travel industry. She’ll make you feel welcome and right at home from the start. You’ll get to meet new friends to share this great holiday experience.

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Day 6 - On the road again back into picturesque Penneshaw for lunch before boarding the ferry to Cape Jervis. We see one the very old stone houses and historic church here build by early settlers. 

Sitting out in the bay today, is one of the many cruise ships that visit Kangaroo Island at this time of the year. As the Ships must dock out in the bay, passengers are tendered into the Penneshaw wharf to the many coaches waiting to show visitors all over beautiful Kangaroo Island.  

Glen Willson pictured is a local islander with ancestry dating back to the 1800′s early settlers on the island. Glen was our wonderful driver throughout our fantastic 6 day tour around the island. Glen loves his desserts!

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Day 6 - We all enjoyed a fun and educational presentation at Rob’s Shearing and Sheepdogs where we witnessed a truly authentic Australian experience. Rob showed us all the aspects of sheep shearing, sorting of wool and spinning of the wool.   

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Day 6 - Our last day on the island with still a lot to see, do and experience. 

After breakfast, we departed Kingscote and took a scenic drive to Penneshaw via American River and picturesque Pennington Bay. 

Our short stop at American River allowed passengers to walk over to ‘the shed’ to see where locals are building a replica boat that sailed into American River. 

We visited KI Artworks Gallery and viewed prominent local art works and crafts   with many passengers taking home some lovely treasures.  Some passengers took a short walk down to Baudin Beach to see the monument to the explorer Nicolas Baudin.

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Day 5 - A wonderful surprise breakfast for all of our guests this morning. The amazing staff at the Kangaroo Island Seaside Inn set up a fabulous breakfast (including pancakes) at Reeves Point, right on the Nepean Bay.

A perfect morning, our passengers just loved having breakfast overlooking the water and having time to wander around the park where the first settlers arrived on Kangaroo Island. 

The colony was established at Reeves Point, Kingscote on 27 July 1836, as South Australia's first official European settlement.

Pictured is the wonderful staff from the Seaside Inn who really looked after us all and ensured we all had enough of the yummy breakfast. 

Also featuring in the photos is Alex Schumann who is the Manager of the Seaside Inn and known as ‘eye candy’ to the girls in the photo!

The other popular man on our tour was Glen Willson, our Sealink driver extraordinaire, whose family has a long history on the island and is pictured here with ‘the cheeky girls’. 

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Day 5 - We continue on to our visit to South Australia’s first sheep dairy and cheese factory - Island Pure Sheep Dairy, where we witness sheep being milked and taste some of their world class dairy products. 

To complete the day, we enjoyed tasting the various spirits produced at KI Spirits who have just won the prestigious title of Best Gin in Australia.

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Day 5 - We then travel to Clifford’s Honey Farm, home to the only pure strain of Ligurian Bee in the world where we learn about the interesting life and work of these rare honey bees. Many of our passengers enjoyed Jenny’s homemade honey ice-cream - yum!

A delicious BBQ lunch will be ready for us at the Emu Ridge Eucalyptus Distillery followed by a tour of the distillery where they manufacture 100% pure Australian Eucalyptus Oil. 

We enjoyed a brief photo stop at Duck Lagoon surrounded by many very old but beautiful gum trees. 

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Day 5 - After a great breakfast we travelled west to Emu Bay with its small jetty, dating back to 1918 and renowned for its beautiful 4 kilometre beach.

Our travels continued on to include a visit to the Old Wisanger School, officially opened in 1885 and provided continuous schooling to the community until the opening of Kingscote Area School in 1945. 

Travelling just along from Wisanger we were surprised to see a castle in the middle of no where. This is Georges Castle at Turners Homestead and is open to the public. 

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Day 4 - What a wonderful way to complete a fabulous day, Kangaroo Island Seaside Inn arranged our dining tonight outside, on the lawns out the front of the hotel, overlooking the calm waters of the bay. 

It was a perfect night, a banquet BBQ, enjoying a fantastic array of seafood, various meats and a delicious selection of salads. This was followed by a decadent  chocolate dessert - our passengers thoroughly enjoyed being very spoilt by all of the absolutely amazing staff at the the Seaside Inn. 

A beautiful sunset that night, the photo taken from my room (and the same view from all rooms) overlooking the Nepean bay.

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Day 4 - In the shed next to Andermel Marron Cafe is the marron breeding and holding tanks where we learned all about the marron’s life cycle and the operational aspects of a modern marron farm. 

We also had time to sample their Two Wheeler Creek wines and Bush Tucker products - just to finish off a wonderful day. 

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Day 4 - About an hours drive from Flinders Chase National Park we arrived at our very special lunch destination, at the Andermel Marron Farm which is renowned as one of the largest best practice marron farms in Australia.

Our passengers enjoyed a wonderful variety of lunch selections. 

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Day 4 - Still within the Flinders Chase National Park, we drive on to the spectacular views of the Admirals Arch which is a natural land bridge and home to the long nosed fur seals. 

Here we also see Cape du Couedic Lighthouse, build in 1906 which can only be viewed from the outside. 

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Day 4 - Today we travelled west on Kangaroo Island to Flinders Chase National Park travelling through the natural rugged beauty of the park to visit the incredible Remarkable Rocks.

Pictured is a giant grass tree over 800 years old found within the park. 

Many of our passengers all enjoyed climbing the rocks and posing against the many sculptured rock formations.

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Day 3 - Our last stop for the day was at Point Ellen and Vivonne Bay (named Australia’s best beach) so take in the beautiful views of the bays. 

A great 2 course dinner at the Kangaroo Island Seaside Inn followed by a lively Quiz night - just fun was had by all!

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Day 3 - After a delicious BBQ lunch at the Seal Bay Cafe, we drove on to visit famous Seal Bay. 

Our guide took some of the passengers on a walk through a wild seal colony that is home to around 600 rare Australian seal lions and some passengers chose to do a more leisurely walk to the lookout or down the board to view the seals gathered on the beach. A wonderful experience and fantastic views.

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Day 3 - After a lovely morning tea at the Raptor Domain, passengers absolutely loved the interactive, educational and highly entertaining display of the in-flight birds of prey.

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Day 2 - We traveled north to discover the charming swimming beach and surrounding beauty of Stokes Bay. Here we visited the secret beach which is protected from the pounding surf by a giant pool surround by rocks. 

As our passengers discovered, the secret beach can only be reached by climbing through a narrow passage of rocks- it was a slow, careful journey but most of our passengers wanted achieve this and were rewarded by the lovely ‘secret beach’ - well done! 

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Day 2 - Wandering around the Kangaroo island Wildlife Park, our passengers loved feeding the tame kangaroos and they loved being fed!