Kangaroo Island

We're in for a couple of hot hot days! I heard that it was about 47 C (45 C = 120 F approx.) in Adelaide yesterday and today will be around the same. The air-conditioning in the hostel broke down for a while but thankfully it was up again by the time it was bedtime. So I went out to get some dinner at a Chinese restaurant. It seemed to be an "authentic" Chinese restaurant since there were long strips of colourful paper with chinese writing of the specials on the wall. I ordered veggie spring rolls and the veggie fried rice which were good. I was happy the fried rice was not the kind that is drenched in brown soy sauce that you find in cheap fast food chinese restaurants. It looked "real", if that makes any sense.

This morning, I woke up at 4:30am so I could catch the 6:45am shuttle bus to the ferry (for Kangaroo Island). When I checked in at the bus station, I was given a red boarding pass for the shuttle and ferry. Once on the island, I took another shuttle bus to the main town of Kingscote (the bus driver had to stop off along the way to drop off stuff at the post office -- when you're in a small town, you tend to have to multitask). Two other wwoofers were on the same bus and we are now in the library using the free internet while we wait to be picked up (it's about noon and the temp is 43 C and still rising so the A/C'd library is great!). They are a German girl and a French guy. We are going to wwoof on Paul's Wildlife Sanctuary, I'm so excited!