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Janine Mackintosh, Artist

Kangaroo Island, Australia

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My Kangaroo Island Inspiration

Antechamber Bay

Remarkable Rocks, Flinders Chase National Park

Coastal White Mallee (Eucalyptus diversifolia) flowers with caps about to drop off

Black Swan (Cygnus atratus) taking flight on our lagoon

A moth cocoon spun around Spiny Wattle (Acacia spinescens) inflorescences

Port Jackson Shark egg, D’Estrees Bay

Remarkable Rocks, Flinders Chase National Park

Cape Gantheaume Wilderness Protection Area

Rocks with lichen, Wheatons Beach, D’Estrees Bay

Koala in the yard. Koalas aren’t native to KI, they were introduced in the 1920s. The population boomed and overbrowsing has caused large areas of eucalypts to die.

Land & Sky (Tailgate of a ute abandoned in our bush)

Cutting-grass (Gahnia trifida) on the edge of our lagoon

Sailing past cormorants on the marker, Eastern Cove

Kangaroo Island Gland-flower (Adenanthos macropodiana), endemic to KI

Yacca Flat, Flinders Chase National Park

Yacca (Xanthorrhoea semiplana ssp. tateana), chewed by jewel beetles

Kangaroo Island’s endemic subspecies of the Western Grey Kangaroo (Macropus fuliginosus fuliginosus) on our powerline track

Looking west from Remarkable Rocks, Flinders Chase National Park

Tailgate of an old ute abandoned in our bush

Remarkable Rocks, Flinders Chase National Park

View from our hill

View out to sea from Christmas Cove

Round-leaf Bertya (Bertya rotundifolia), endemic to KI

Sooty Oystercatchers, Wheatons Beach, D’Estrees Bay

The Southern Ocean, viewed from a safe anchorage.

View from our hill during flooding

One of our huge old Yaccas (Xanthorrhoea semiplana ssp. tateana)

Tau Emerald (Hemicordulia tau) dragonfly on Kangaroo Island Oak-bush (Allocasuarina muelleriana ssp. notocolpica)

Wheatons Beach, D’Estrees Bay

Kangaroo Island Brush Heath (Brachyloma ericoides subsp. bicolor), endemic to KI

Old Man’s Beard (Clematis microphylla)

Desert Banksia (Banksia ornata)

Antechamber Bay

Short-beaked Echidna (Tachyglossus aculeatus ssp. multiaculeatus) crossing a creek via a fallen log

A cocoon on a yacca leaf tip, spun by a Cup Moth larva, Doratifera sp. The moth has neatly excised the cap and emerged.

Shags on the rocks

Blue-billed Ducks (Oxyura australis) on our lagoon, a Near Threatened species

Beaked Hakea (Hakea rostrata)

Stump of Swamp Paperbark (Melaleuca halmaturorum) in our dry lagoon bed, probably cut decades ago for a fence post.

Hooded Plovers (Thinornis rubricollis), a threatened beach-nesting species, Wreckers Beach

Flooded Elsegood Road, which runs through our property (and lagoon)

Leafless Bitter-pea (Daviesia brevifolia)

An Australian Sea Lion (Neophoca cinerea) sleeping on the beach at Seal Bay Conservation Park, a well-earned rest after days feeding at sea.

Heath Needlebush (Hakea mitchellii)

Yacca (Xanthorrhoea semiplana ssp. tateana)

Inside of a decaying Yacca trunk (Xanthorrhoea semiplana ssp. tateana)

Seeding yacca flower spike (Xanthorrhoea semiplana ssp. tateana)

Vivonne Bay jetty

Southern Boobook (Ninox novaeseelandiae), we often hear its double hoot at night; the second hoot is lower

Seaweed on Wheatons Beach, D’Estrees Bay

Lashmar Conservation Park, viewed from a sailing boat

Heath Goanna prints, Rocky River Beach, Flinders Chase National Park

Jewel beetle (Castiarina flavopicta) feeding on Shining Spyridium (Spyridium nitidum)

Rocks with lichen, Wheatons Beach, D’Estrees Bay

Remarkable Rocks, Flinders Chase National Park

Flowering melaleucas in the mist, viewed from Southern Ocean Lodge

Wheatons Beach, D’Estrees Bay

Sea urchin, Wreckers Beach

Cutting-grass (Gahnia trifida)

Myrmecia ant, which can sting, as well as bite

On Wreckers Beach, D’Estrees Bay

Our driveway track

Reflections in our lagoon

Kangaroo Island Oak-bush (Allocasuarina muelleriana ssp. notocolpica), endemic to KI

Rocks with lichen, Wheatons Beach, D’Estrees Bay

Our lower “Flag Field” of Morning Flags (Orthrosanthus multiflorus) and Sweet Bursaria (Bursaria spinosa)

Jewel beetle (Castiarina simulata) feeding on Broombush (Melaleuca uncinata) blossom

Osprey (Pandion haliaetus), Wreckers Beach, a sketch of this nest was drawn by a survivor of the Osmanli shipwreck of 1853.

Bombycoid moth larvae gathered on a Eucalyptus leaf they are eating

Scarlet Bottlebrush (Callistemon rugulosus var rugulosus)

My studio

Our paperbark lagoon at sunset

Myrtle Wattle (Acacia myrtifolia)

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