Adelaide Hotels & Resorts

Enjoy a full day tour, driving through Adelaide’s cultural precinct and historic North Adelaide, stopping to see St Peters Cathedral or the Adelaide Oval and visit the National Wine Centre of Australia where you will have free time to explore the Wine Discovery Journey Museum. After lunch (not included), drive to Mount Lofty Summit and wind your way through the Adelaide Hills villages before arriving at Hahndorf. Explore the main street before afternoon tea or a traditional German beer tasting at the popular Hahndorf Inn.

• Duration: full day
• Departs Tuesday, Friday, Saturday and Sunday
• Operates year-round
• Group experience

You start with a morning pick-up from your hotel in Adelaide and head south by coach through the Fleurieu Peninsula. It’s an easy, scenic drive past vineyards, rolling farmland and flashes of coastline, and before long, you reach Cape Jervis. From here, you board the SeaLink ferry for the 45-minute crossing to Kangaroo Island, a stretch of water that marks the shift from everyday Australia to something a bit wilder.

One of the highlights comes early at Seal Bay Conservation Park. With a ranger leading the way, you join a guided walk along the beach among a colony of Australian sea lions. They nap, bicker, shuffle and occasionally burst into unexpected speed, entirely uninterested in posing for photos but very good at stealing the show.

After lunch, the tour heads west across the island to Flinders Chase National Park. Kangaroos, wallabies, echidnas and koalas all live here, and sightings are common. At Remarkable Rocks, giant granite boulders perch above the ocean like they’ve been carefully arranged for effect. A short walk at Admirals Arch takes you down to a natural rock bridge where long-nosed fur seals lounge on the rocks below, occasionally flopping into the water as if gravity has briefly slipped their mind. The final stop is Kangaroo Island Wildlife Park, where you can feed kangaroos and get close to the island’s koalas while listening to a keeper explain how they’re cared for. 

Duration: 16 hours
Daily departures
Operates year round 
Group experience