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Tourism is once again set to flourish on Kangaroo Island. The South Australian Premier, Hon Peter Malinauskas MP, held a Country Cabinet recently on the Southern Ocean Lodge work site to learn what’s important to people living, working and doing business on the island. The state’s Tourism Minister, Zoe Bettison, was also in attendance to share the good news about Kangaroo Island tourism ‘bounding back’ and plans for a new visitor information centre at Flinders Chase National Park to open next year.

Qantas has announced new daily and double-daily weekend return flights from Adelaide, making for an easy hop across the water to discover Kangaroo Island’s enduring wild beauty, its wildlife and its close-knit community. 

Southern Ocean Lodge will reopen in December this year, fresh from a $55million rebuild, recreated by the lodge’s original architect, South Australia-based Max Pritchard.

With the same generous inclusions as the original – all dining, drinks and signature experiences – the new Southern Ocean Lodge will bear almost the same footprint as the first, with 25 luxurious guest suites easing along the coastline reoriented to take in more of the ocean and coastal wilderness views.

The Great Room terrace now boasts a wet-edge pool, while spacious new surrounds for the Southern Spa allow for three treatment rooms, a gymnasium, sauna and hot and cold plunge pools.

New to the property is the ultra-premium Ocean Pavilion, cleverly designed to offer a single owner’s residence or two separate suites to create the ultimate Kangaroo Island hideaway for families and friends travelling together.

Environmental sustainability is core to the design of Southern Ocean Lodge with a boost to water-capture and solar power generation plus clever planting of fire-retardant native plants and natural buffers to the wilderness. 

For further information on Southern Ocean Lodge or to book your future stay on Kangaroo Island, visit Baillie Lodges’ website.