New titles are hard to come by! After a makeshift breakfast, the hotel provided a toaster but no plates or cutlery, we headed out on one of the longer legs of the return journey at around 375kms. Nothing near our 800-900kms / day heading to the trailer, but it seems long here!
We had nothing planned for the day, I had suggested stopping off at Townsville and taking the ferry to Magnetic Island and renting scooters, but that idea was soundly rejected for some reason. Instead we visited the Billabong Animal Sanctuary just south of Townsville.
Again mostly pictures, and I won’t aplolgise for the disproportionate number of Koala shots, they’re too cute not to include. Some of the photos are not overly clear due to shooting through one or sometimes two mesh fences.
I felt a bit guilty when I saw these guys. We had seen a couple of dead ones along the road, not knowing what they were we searched the web for Australian boars and pigs! For some reason I always imagined wombats to be cute and cuddly…. wrong on both counts.
We have been looking for these flightless birds, the Southern Cassowary, for the last couple of weeks, they are severely endangered but are native to the area we have been traveling through. Unfortunately we never saw them in the wild.
The bump on the head in the image below grows as the bird matures, it is believed to enhance their very low frequency communication reception.
These two guys couldn’t get any closer together…. they tried though
The Red Legged Pademelon is the smallest of the Kangaroo family, duck in foreground to show size.
The guy below wasn’t happy, he had lost his mum and was wandering around crying! Check out the size of the feet.
That’s it, time for food.