Kangaroo Island, off the southern coast of Australia is an ocean fortress cut off by wild seas and battered by brutal Southern Ocean winds. It’s an enchanted refuge where some of the most iconic mainland fauna have made a last stand. In Seal Bay, Australian sea lions live between the ocean and the shore. Dominant males compete for breeding rights on the beaches. Flocks of Glossy Black Cockatoos fly overhead. This sub-species of cockatoo is endangered and are now found only on
Kangaroo Island. It’s the island’s isolation from the mainland that is helping to forge other new species
too. A relative of the Western grey kangaroo, the stocky brown Kangaroo Island variant gather in mobs to feed and fight for breeding rights. Kangaroo Island is the story of the vibrant and teeming version of mainland wildlife cast adrift and alone in the wild, nutrient rich Southern Ocean.