Day three walking the Kangaroo Island Wilderness Trail, a 66km 4-5 day hike at the western end of Kangaroo Island, Australia’s third largest island, relatively close to Adelaide. This was the shortest day, and included the Remarkable Rocks, which lived up their name.

It was windy night at Hakea Campground near Admirals Arch, but thankfully the ever present cloud didn’t turn to rain. It stayed around for most of the morning before afternoon blue skies and sunshine. Thankfully I reached camp soon after it came out as there is little shade on the track. From the campground the track wiggled through dense coastal mallee.

In the distance I got my first view of Remarkable Rocks, and was a bit freaked out walking into a spider web crossing the track, as Australian spiders are often poisonous.

The landscape opened up as plant life was more stunted in height, presumably due to harsher, windier conditions.

The Remarkable Rocks appeared more impressive the closer I got.

They’ve been eroded over 500 million years to these incredible shapes.

Care needs to be taken though, with nine people to date dying from falls from the rocks, or trying to rescue others.

There were some great views back along the coastline I’d spent the past day and a half walking along.

And more good views continuing along the coastline to the east.

This was a bench with a view, with Sanderson Bay in the middle, close to Banksia Campsite, home for the night.

The trail headed inland, with the campsite visible about 3km before finally reaching it via what felt like a somewhat circular route, but is seemingly part of the trail design to avoid straight sections.

Banksia Campsite was near identical to the other campgrounds, but they’re well designed and comfortable places to stay.