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It was a very early wake up the next morning, unfortunately not to shoot sunrise but rather to head to the airport to catch a plane to nearby Kangaroo Island off the southern coast of mainland Australia (112km south-west of Adelaide).

Kangaroo Island is Australia’s third largest island (not including the mainland itself) and is 150km long and between 57 and 90km wide with an area covering 4,405 square kilometres.

This was the first time any of us had visited the island and we were looking forward to our time away.

Note: These photographs (especially the wider shots) look much better when larger – so click any of the images below to see larger versions in an inline overlay slideshow gallery viewer.

You can get to the island from the mainland in two main ways – either take the Kangaroo Island Sealink ferry or as we did the Regional Express Airline (Rex).

Plane Skies

NIKON D600 + 24.0-70.0 mm f/2.8 @ 31 mm, 1/125 sec at f/8, ISO 100

Once we arrived we picked up our hire car, packed our bags and headed off to the nearest town (in fact the largest town on the island) – Kingscote. After arriving we looked for a place to have breakfast (there were only two or three choices) – it was still very early 🙂

After satisfying our hunger we explored the area on foot for a little while. The coastline was very pretty and even though it was quite overcast the sky was putting on a bit of a light show – not of colour but of interesting light.

Piering to the Sky

NIKON D600 + 24.0-70.0 mm f/2.8 @ 24 mm, 1/100 sec at f/11, ISO 100

Only had a few minutes here at this interesting pier so I just shot this handheld – I figured I could come back later and do some interesting long exposures… little did I know we’d not have the chance to return.

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