In the low season (winter ) if you keep a look out some cheap fares pop up Kana Island.But like all these ferry crossings ,depends if you want to take your who set up or just the vihicle or walkon. It is a nice place to visit in Spring..In the winter would not be a place i would want to be.

What did you think of the kingston free camp?

BriVee wrote:

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Hi Briche,  Free camp site at Kingston opposite the jetty on the Western side of town, 

Enjoy

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Victor Harbour a must, don't know if they still have the horse tram there but that was fun. Also Hindmarsh Island worth a visit for sea birds, causeway goes over now....

We had a free trip on the ferry and nearly had a free cremation on Kangaroo Island due to our tour bus catching fire and the doors jamming, they refunded our tour money including the ferry fare due to our experience.

Missed a bit of the island, but not mutch due to the fire, but some of what the average organised tours see.

We grabbed our small backpacks which had our camera's etc in them, but most left theirs and lost them in the fire, the tour company took their details of them and their loss for insurance purposes. 

One bloke managed to break a window bit by bit with one of those little hammers and him and his wife got out that way, but got badly cut, everyone suffered smoke inhalation and smoke was billowing up from underneath the floor.  Eventually the driver managed to get the door open manually and we all got out that way, none to soon.   We all trudged down to a rest stop (where the bus ended up being towed to after it had burnt out) out of the way.  A woman started screaming on the bus as she thought we were all going to die, a bit unsettling but luckily we all survived.

Wouldn't like to go through that again.  Passengers had alerted the driver earlier about something burning in the rear of the bus, he got out and had a look at the motor and said it was only oil burning off the engine and continued on until a car behind us started tooting and smoke started coming up from under the floor.....  

It was pretty obvious from his attitude and from what I overheard he had no real concern for his passengers and was more interested in covering his backside.

When we got on the ferry to go back to the mainland, he and a couple of others from the office handed us all a souvenir mug and pen, no doubt instructed to do so.

In the low season (winter ) if you keep a look out some cheap fares pop up to Kanga Island.But like all these ferry crossings ,depends if you want to take your who set up or just the vihicle or walkon. It is a nice place to visit in Spring..In the winter would not be a place i would want to be. i think we payed about $800 all up .Would not go back again ,as i think it is very over priced and really not all that much to see other than the Honey factory and a few other cottage industries.S oif the weather is not king to you while there and cannot go into the ocean ,not a lot to do and the wind can get really bad, like blow a brown dog off it's chain.We were there two nights all up.