 Sleeping Koala |
 Koala mother and baby |
 Spot-tailed Quolls |
| They
had koalas that we could pet. The one I am petting has a
juvenile. Next there were marsupial "cats", I think it is a spot-tailed quoll. They
never
stopped moving and were very
interested in the camera so they were very hard to photograph. |
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 Kangaroo Island kangaroos |
 Beth feeding a kangaroo |
 kangaroo close up |
| Next
was a highlight of the trip so far. We were let into a large
enclosure with a mob of kangaroos. You can see them in the field. We
we given some
kangaroo chow, and could feed them and scratch their bellies. |
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 Hopping kangaroo |
 Grazing kangaroos |
 wedge tail eagle |
| They hopped from person to person looking for more chow and then began to graze. We next saw several of Australia's largest bird of prey the wedge-tailed eagle. This one had been by people in Adelaide, and had never been taught to hunt, so while perfectly healthy, it can never be released. They had several others that had been injured or shot and were permanently disabled. | ||
 Southern hairy nosed wombat |
 Galah |
 Tammar wallaby and Joey part 1 |
| We
next saw a southern hairy-nosed wombat. It shares a common ancestor
with the koala. This is a pink breasted cockatoo, otherwise known as the galah.
This one wanders around thepark. Here is a Tammar wallaby and joey. They
were once common
on
the main land,but was wiped out by foxes and cats that we introduced when the
continent was settled by the
English. |
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