Page 58 - Dreamscapes Magazine | Winter/Spring 2025

On
KANGAROO
ISLAND
ART AND NATURE
,
INTERSECT
BY SUZANNE MORPHET
Two, three, no, wait—four wallabies graze on
A rustle in the bush alerts me to their presence.
greenery a few metres away. I turn on the narrow
footpath and signal to my husband. Seconds
later, they bound into the bush on powerful hind legs.
Kangaroo Island in South Australia is home to the
country’s most iconic species, including these adorable
Tammar wallabies. There’s so much wildlife, even
platypus and penguins, that the island is sometimes
called “a zoo without walls.”
It’s not only animals that bring us here. Bigger than
Long Island, New York, but smaller than Bali, Kangaroo
Island offers a stunning landscape enlivened
by a creative community that has us
continually pausing on a trail or
pulling off the road for a better
look at something.
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