Eyes on the horizon (it’s visible from every room), you can feel the ascension. Southern Ocean Lodge 2.0 is early in its relaunch season and the hallowing is taking place in real time. Just over four years ago, the original lodge was a perfectly bucket-listed must-do for those with the means for super-prime travel. But now, off the back of a bar-raising reconstruction, the Kangaroo Island stay is rising to Australian icon status. Adversity has a way of making or breaking that process.
This is a reinvention arc nobody asked for. Baillie Lodges founders James and Hayley Baillie certainly could have
