Southern Ocean Lodge, Kangaroo Island, South Australia
Middleton
Setting off from Goolwa at about 10:30am, with our roadie box of lovely snacks from Juliet at The Australasian in tow, Mr NQN and I have on stop in mind: Kangaroo Island, population 4,500 people (and apparently 1 person per thousand sheep!).
Packing our bags into the Audi convertible we stop by cute little seaside towns like Middleton and Port Elliot which we had to really stop at because of the name! 
Sadly there wasn’t quite enough time to stop by the Flying Fish Cafe which is supposed to be great but we had the Kangaroo Island ferry to catch and if we missed that, then we would be in trouble!
Port Elliot Beach
The ferry from Cape Jervis to Kangaroo Island leaves every hour and you need to book ahead, particularly if you’re driving a car on board. The tariff isn’t cheap, it’s $400 per car with two people for a return trip. To use the ferry, the driver drives the car onto the ship and the passenger takes another ticket and walks on board using another entrance. The trip takes 45 minutes total and there are various snacks to eat on board of the sausage roll and pie and bun variety as well as chips and chocolate.
We will lay our head for the night at the legendary Southern Ocean Lodge. A bucket list item for me, I had seen the famous photo of the lodge and like Liz Lemon I said silently to myself “I want to go to there” and pointed at the photo. Years later we find ourselves driving up the dirt road (in my experience the longer the driveway the more spectacular the end will be ) kicking up dirt and making sure the convertible top was up.
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