Beauty and Bushfires: Exploring South Australia’s Kangaroo Island

Posted on June 30, 2021

Choking back tears, he told me, “I looked out over the plain and howled. It’ll take a long time to recover, and it probably won’t be in my lifetime”.

I was talking to David, a now-retired guide who had spent 15 years conducting eco-tours in Flinders Chase National Park and the adjoining Ravine des Casoars Wilderness Protection Area on South Australia’s Kangaroo Island. He was telling me about his reaction to the horrific bushfires, started by lightning strikes, that burnt more than 46% of the island’s 440,500 hectares (1,700 square miles) over several weeks of the 2019/2020 Australian summer.

Two lives and 50 houses were lost in the blaze, numerous farms and businesses ruined and thousands of animals—both livestock and wildlife—perished.

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GlobeRovers Magazine July 2021