“It takes an island to raise a hotel” might be a degradation of the old village/child saying, but here on Australia’s Kangaroo Island, a 40-minute flight from Adelaide, it is exactly what has happened.
When hoteliers James and Hayley Baillie opened Southern Ocean Lodge, in 2008, this sparsely populated wilderness known for its marine life—Australia’s answer to the Galápagos—finally had an oceanfront hotel to entice some of the world’s most adventurous travelers.
