Sunday, November 21, 2010

Tidbinbilla

On Sunday, after visiting the Deep Space Center, we visited the Tidbinbilla Nature Reserve. This is located in an area that was devastated by a bush fire in 2003. Thankfully, it seems to have recovered over the past seven years.

The first sign that the local wildlife had recovered came shortly after we entered the reserve. We had been pretty frustrated up until this point to have only seen one solitary kangeroo in our whole time in Australia. Imagine our delight, therefore, at meeting a whole herd of them:



Later on, we were even more excited to see a rare duck billed platypus. Normally, these creatures are pretty shy. This little guy, however, was bit of a show off and kept coming up for air near us every few minutes, allowing us to take photos.



Next up, we went looking for koalas in the eucalyptus forest. Sadly, we weren't able to find any wild koalas but we did see this little guy who was being prepared for release into the wild:

1 comment:

jonathanj said...

Nice snap of the platypus