KI not quite Christmas visit
Thursday, 2 January 2025
This year we decided to go to South Australia early as it was Hobart's turn for Christmas Day celebrations and we got some really good direct flights with Jetstar so we headed over Wednesday after work. After a day at Hilary and Tony's place (I had to work), we drove down to get the last ferry to Kangaroo Island where we were warmly welcomed by Jon's mum and sat down for a lovely late dinner.
Kangaroo Island is famous for its special bees and consequently its special honey and honey products. Every time we visit we make sure to support the local industry by visiting at least one of the honey places. This time we decided it was essential to discover which place (of the 3) had the best honey icecream. This was not a simple undertaking - the three places were many kilometres apart and we needed to plan our run - although we pretty quickly realised we could rule the third honey place out of the competition as it didn't actually produce honey icecream - so that left two places, one in Kingscote, and the other in the middle of no-where.
On the way to the first place we checked out some local galleries and the legendary hardware store (that has everything) then we drove to Island Beehive and bought both their varieties - Cap Gum and boubialla. We stashed it (organ transplant like) in our eski and drove to Cliffords honey farm where we purchased the competing product and did our very scientific blind testing sitting in the shade under a big tree. .jpg) .jpg)
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Ultimately we unanimously agreed that the original store (Cliffords) sold the best honey icecream (price was the same so it wasn't a factor), followed by the cap gum and the boubialla. All of it was pretty delicious though.
We spent the rest of the holiday relaxing, swimming, going playing mini golf and generally being treated very well by Jon's mum although unfortunately both Zali and Jett got sick for a day but were looking better by the time we left. %20(1).jpg)
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The last night and day of our Adelaide trip was spent at Andrew and Teri's amazing new house - I had to work all day but everyone else got out for disc golf and a swim, then we nearly missed our flight home (or at least our baggage did) as we didn't check our flight times and had the wrong time in our minds, only realising 5 minutes from the airport that we had 6 minutes left to check our baggage in. Despite Jon's speedy driving efforts and us running to the bag drop area, we missed the cut off by a minute. LUCKILY, and miraculously - given Jetstars cutthroat reputation, the departures area was practically empty and the people behind the service desk were happy enough to fix us up so we could get our bags to hobart. Thank goodness.
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