The Caves of Penguin Island.
Located around 660m off the coast of Shoalwater in Western Australia, is an island that is home to a colony of around 250 Little Penguins/Fairy Penguins. This is only part of the incredible story of how it came to be what it is today! Paul Seaforth McKenzie was a mining engineer from New Zealand who left for work one day and didn’t return home as he usually would. Instead, McKenzie spent four years, from 1914 to 1918, squatting on Penguin Island, presumably dreaming up his grand plans to turn it into a holiday resort. In 1918 he was granted a lease from the Government and spent the next eight years turning his dream into reality. He created the Caves of Penguin Island with hand tools and explosives, forming accomodation, a general store, a library, and a grand ballroom. Each with fancy names such as Manor Hall, Fairhaven and Tudor Hall. He even built his very own ‘mansion’ from timber and iron, but this would be closer to a shack in reality than an actual mansion. Rock slabs formed bed...