Kangaroo Island Food, Honey & Spirits Walk
Explore Kangaroo Island's exceptional food scene — Ligurian bees producing the world's purest honey, premium seafood from clean Southern Ocean waters, sheep dairy, and the gin distillery that has put island spirits on the international map.
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Clifford's Honey Farm
Clifford's Honey Farm manages Kangaroo Island's Ligurian bee colony — the island has been the world's only Ligurian bee sanctuary since 1885, when the bees were quarantined from mainland disease and genetic pollution, producing a honey of exceptional purity and flavour.
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Kangaroo Island Spirits Distillery
KI Spirits is the distillery that put Kangaroo Island on the international spirits map — the WILD gin made from locally harvested juniper and native botanicals including the island's Leptospermum leaves has won major international awards.
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False Cape Wines
False Cape Wines in the South East of KI grows Shiraz and Cabernet in a maritime climate entirely different from the mainland — the sea-influenced viticulture and the winemaker's philosophy of minimal intervention produce wines of real distinctiveness.
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Islander Estate Vineyards
Islander Estate was established by former Château Pichon-Baron winemaker Jacques Lurton — the Burgundy-trained approach applied to Kangaroo Island's maritime-influenced terroir produces some of the most elegant wines in South Australia.
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Kangaroo Island Marron Farm
Marron (freshwater crayfish) farming on Kangaroo Island uses the island's clean, cold river water — the freshwater crayfish are served at island restaurants as one of the premium native seafood products that complement the Southern Ocean crayfish available from the coast.
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Cape Willoughby Lighthouse
Cape Willoughby Lighthouse (1852) is South Australia's oldest lighthouse — the restored light on the eastern tip of Kangaroo Island provided the first maritime warning at the entrance to Investigator Strait and now offers overnight stays in the heritage keeper's quarters.