Wander offers a curated selection of bookable experiences, including dining, activities, wellness. Guests can browse activities, check real-time availability, and book directly online.
Taste Kangaroo Island straight from the glass. We've chosen three reds and three whites from cellar doors across island, and we'll have your pick waiting in your WanderPod when you arrive.
Choose the red, white or mixed selection.
The red selection includes one bottle each of:
Dudley Wines - MacDonnell Merlot
Springs Road - Cabernet Sauvignon
Islander Estate - The Red Shiraz
The white selection includes one bottle each of:
Dudley Wines - Grassy Flat Sauvignon Blanc
Springs Road - Little Island Rose
Islander Estate - The White Chardonnay
The mixed selection includes one bottle each of:
Springs Road - Little Island Rose
Islander Estate - The White Chardonnay
Dudley Wines - MacDonnell Merlot
Add the wine pack to your booking before you arrive, so the team has time to have it ready. The selections are fixed and we aren't able to swap bottles within a pack.
Please make sure to reserve the wine selection for the day of your arrival.
Category: Dining
Duration: Varies
Location: Middle River, Australia
Group Size: up to 2 participants
Price: from A$110.00 per Group
Availability: Available for booking
What's included
3 bottles of wine from different Kangaroo Island cellar doors
You meet the boat at the Emu Bay jetty or the Bay of Shoals boat ramp. Kangaroo Island Marine Adventures texts you the day before to confirm which.
Out on the water, the dolphin swim specialist guides look for wild dolphins. Once they find them, you pull on a wetsuit and snorkel gear and get in. Swims are always in safe, shallow waters and a hydrophone lets you listen to the dolphins from the boat.
The coast is part of the trip. You may see seals, sea eagles and osprey from the boat, and the guides point out fossil beds and talk through the history of Kangaroo Island. Wetsuits and snorkelling gear are provided, and you’re welcome to bring your own. Tea, coffee and biscuits are on board. Bring a water bottle and any other food you want.
There are no change rooms at either departure point, so wear your swimmers under your clothes. Bay of Shoals has a toilet at the boat ramp. At Emu Bay, the nearest toilets are about 300 metres from the jetty, at the playground and barbecue area.
Children 13 and under are welcome and priced separately. Shared tours join other guests. A private tour needs at least eight people, up to 15.
The season closes for winter from 1 June to 31 August. Tell us your date and how many of you are coming, and we’ll put your request to Kangaroo Island Marine Adventures, then confirm once it’s locked in.
The Fig Tree (lunch only)
An experience like no other, this restaurant is built into a fig tree more than a century old, and a two minute drive from your pod. The canopy comes down around you, and lunch happens inside the leaves.
Chef and owner John Stamatakis cooks a set menu of Mediterranean-inspired feast over wood fire, built on local produce. It’s a long table meal, made for taking your time over.
Sittings are $147pp, drinks on consumption.
The tree sets the season for the restaurant as it carries leaves for about six months of the year. Bookings are essential. Tell us your date and party size, and we’ll put your request to the restaurant, then confirm back to you once it’s locked in.
La Baracca (Friday dinner)
La Baracca means “the shed”. On Friday nights, dinner moves into its shearing shed just next to the Fig Tree, a century-old building on the same property.
Dinner is a set menu. Think native cuts and coastal flavours thrown over wood-fired grills, kissed by charcoal hibachi flames, or puffing up in the pizza oven.
Sittings are $95pp, drinks on consumption.
La Baracca follows the same opening season as the Fig Tree and bookings are essential.
Category: Dining
Duration: 3 hours
Location: Middle River, Australia
Availability: Available on request
What's included
A table request submitted to The Fig Tree on your behalf
Confirmation once the restaurant has accepted your booking
Islander Estate Vineyards makes cool-climate wine on Kangaroo Island, a few minutes from Kangaroo Island Airport and under ten minutes from Kingscote. Founder and winemaker Jacques Lurton comes from a fifth-generation Bordeaux winemaking family and planted the estate in 2000. Stock up here before you reach your WanderPod.
Two ways to do it.
Tasting Room, wine and cheese for two. Sit down to a Flagship tasting, then take a cheese platter of locally sourced produce out to the deck while the team packs six bottles from the Varietal range, your pick, to take home or straight to your pod.
Click and collect. Short on time? Pre-order the Best Sellers Wine Tasting Pack and collect it on your way through. Six wines, sparkling through to red.
Petiyante NV Sparkling Chardonnay/Pinot Noir - Champagne style
The White Chardonnay.
The Rose - bone-dry Provence-style.
The Red Shiraz.
Bark Hut Road Shiraz/Cabernet Franc - Bordeaux-style blend.
Old Rowley Shiraz/Grenache.
Category: Activities
Duration: 2 hours
Location: Cygnet River, Australia
Price: from A$219.00 per Group
Availability: Available on request
What's included
The Tasting Room for Two includes: Flagship tasting for two, cheese platter on the deck, six bottles of your choice from the Varietal range
Click and Collect includes: Best Sellers Wine Tasting Pack, six wines
Head out along Kangaroo Island's rugged north-west coast aboard Radikal, an eight-metre Zodiac, for a full day on the water. This stretch is largely left alone, and you go as a citizen scientist rather than a spectator: helping to document the wildlife, and learning the geology and the conservation work underway as you go.
Weather permitting, you'll snorkel the shallow reefs, where you might meet Australian sea-lions, long-nosed fur seals, dolphins, and the Western Blue Groper. The 5 and a half hour day is capped at eight guests, with a lunch and afternoon tea of local produce somewhere in the middle of it.
A full day on the water. Part expedition, part contribution, on one of the wildest parts of the island.
Category: Activities
Duration: 5 hours, 30 minutes
Location: Stokes Bay, Australia
Group Size: up to 8 participants
Price: from A$390.00 per Person
Availability: Available on request
What's included
Spray jackets
Delicious home-baked afternoon tea
Gourmet local produce lunch
Aluminium water bottle (for you to keep) with refills
Reef Safe sunscreen
Marine toilet on-board
Life Jackets (including children’s life jackets)
Access to cameras (including underwater) for data collection
Kangaroo Island Spirits has been distilling on the island since 2006 and describes itself as Australia’s first dedicated gin distillery.
Distilling gin from island botanicals, the cellar door is where you taste it. In about 45 minutes you’ll try the distillery’s gins and hear how they’re made, from a dry gin built on native coastal daisy to a wild gin made with hand-picked wild juniper.
The cellar door is set in gardens planted with native botanicals, and it’s open every day. Choose your date and time when you book.
Your phone gives you a clue, not an itinerary. Follow it to Kangaroo Island Providore first, then on from there — each stop run by someone who made what they're handing you. Solve the last clue and you're done. A picnic spot with a view, and the rest of the afternoon is yours.
Stay exactly where you are. A local massage therapist comes to your WanderPod for either a 90 minute massage or an hour's massage each for couples. No drive, no waiting room, no leaving the deck you've settled into. The island does the rest: the wind through the grass, the sea somewhere below, the pod's own quiet. The week goes out of your shoulders, and when it's done, you're already home for the evening.
Category: Wellness
Duration: 2 hours
Location: Middle River, Australia
Group Size: up to 1 participants
Price: from A$350.00 per Group
Availability: Available on request
What's included
Your choice of a 1 x 60-minute massage or 2 x 60-minute couples massage with premium oils
> The Pantry Box brings together Kangaroo Island and South Australian producers: growers, makers, bakers, chosen for what they put on the table and the care they put into making it. The island has always grown and made its own. A remote place, a small community of producers, and food that tastes of exactly where it came from. The honey, garlic salt and potatoes are local standouts.
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> Add the Taste of the Island Pantry Box to your booking on an Inclusive rate, or add it on closer to your stay, and the island's produce is yours. Picked in season, brought together from local growers, waiting in your pod when you arrive and ready to cook. Eat well, and know the money goes back to the growers and the island communities they hold up.
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> What's in season is what's in the box. Items may include:
Breakfast
South Australian Skara Bacon
Kangaroo Island Free-range Eggs
Cinnamon and Honey Muesli + Yoghurt
Local Baked Croissants
Kangaroo Island Honey
Milk and Mountain Springs Juice
Dinner
Grain-fed Angus Steak
Creative Native Peri-Peri Chicken Maryland
Cherry Tomatoes
Lettuce
Broccolini
Zucchini
Potatoes
Red Onion
Avocado
Baby Spinach
Lemons
Kangaroo Island Beetroot Relish, Chipotle Sauce, and Dukka nut condiments
Kangaroo Island Garlic Salt
Dessert
Kangaroo Island honey ice-cream
Snacks
Cremeux Triple Brie
Maggie Beer Smoked Club Cheddar
Red Rock Deli Murray River Pink Salt & Black Pepper Crackers
Kangaroo Island Olives
Caramel wattle seed popcorn
Where
The box comes to you. A member of the team carries it to your WanderPod and unpacks it into the fridge before you arrive.
Available for stays at Wander on Kangaroo Island only.
When
Book at least 5 days ahead. It gives the team time to order from our suppliers.
Please make sure to reserve the pantry box for the day of your arrival.
Options
Two sizes to choose from:
Two adults over two days
Four adults over two days
Unfortunately we aren't able to alter the box for dietary requirements, please accept our apologies if that rules it out for you.
What else do you need?
Every WanderPod has a kitchen built for a proper meal — a gas cooktop, oven, sink, full fridge, dishwasher and BBQ. Olive oil, salt and pepper are already on the bench.
The pods run on the power and water they gather and store themselves, so high-draw appliances such as microwave and toaster are not included. Everything in the box is chosen to cook well without them.
Category: Dining
Duration: 2 days
Location: Middle River, Australia
Price: from A$357.00 per Group
Availability: Available for booking
What's included
Provisions for 2 breakfast, 2 dinners, snacks, and dessert
Kangaroo Island Pantry Box with seasonal ingredients
Delivery and unpacking of the pantry box into your WanderPod fridge before arrival
Select an activity and check real-time availability
Choose your preferred date and time
Complete your booking online
Frequently Asked Questions
What experiences can I book at Wander?
You can book a variety of experiences including dining, activities, wellness. A full list of activities is available on this page with direct booking links.
How do I book an experience?
Select an experience, check availability, and use the booking link to reserve your spot online.
Are experiences available year-round?
Availability depends on the experience. Real-time availability is shown for each activity.
Do I need to be a hotel guest to book experiences?
Experiences are generally available for booking online. Access conditions may vary depending on the activity.
About Wander
Kangaroo Island offers a varied mix of coastal adventures, local food and wine, and restorative experiences. Get out on the water to swim with wild dolphins, explore marine life and geology, or enjoy guided activities among the island’s rugged coastline. Taste island-made gin and cool-climate wines, follow clues to collect local produce, or enjoy a long lunch, dinner, or pantry selection featuring regional ingredients. For a slower stay, unwind with a massage brought directly to your pod.
