I feel like an Australian | Tuesday, November 21, 2006 |
In our trip to the Blue Mountains we saw, in order, a Wallaby, an Echidna and a Kangaroo - all of them alive and in the wild.
The Wallaby was hippity-hopping along the side of the car a we headed to the Jenolan Caves, the Echidna was snuffling its way into an Ant nest on the way back from the caves, and the Kangaroo though off in the distance was further back towards Katoomba.
Dead Wombats aplenty too. They're the only things we've not seen alive (excluding lethal tree snakes, spiders and the unlikely to be spotted on land Dugong). That of course is an exageration, but the sentiment is valid. I've finally seen some native wild live out of a zoo, a tv documentary or a guide book, and all of it was unexepected.
The hopping things were either too far or too fast to be tempted with the camera, but our spiny friend isn't much of an athelete.
For reference this one is about the size of a medium sized chicken. Don't know what it tastes like though.
The Wallaby was hippity-hopping along the side of the car a we headed to the Jenolan Caves, the Echidna was snuffling its way into an Ant nest on the way back from the caves, and the Kangaroo though off in the distance was further back towards Katoomba.Dead Wombats aplenty too. They're the only things we've not seen alive (excluding lethal tree snakes, spiders and the unlikely to be spotted on land Dugong). That of course is an exageration, but the sentiment is valid. I've finally seen some native wild live out of a zoo, a tv documentary or a guide book, and all of it was unexepected.
The hopping things were either too far or too fast to be tempted with the camera, but our spiny friend isn't much of an athelete.
For reference this one is about the size of a medium sized chicken. Don't know what it tastes like though.
