Showing posts with label Koala. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Koala. Show all posts

Monday, January 25, 2010

Raymond Island

I love seeing the wildlife of Australia. I don't see much where I live because it's a built up area. Kangaroos aren't just going to hop down the main street. We saw more wildlife then usual down in Bairnsdale since it's out in the country. In order to see koalas though, we went to Raymond Island. We took the ferry over and had fine driving around looking for them. In all we saw 17 koalas, including one baby, a wallaby, and a kookaburra! We also got invited by a creepy man into his garage to see his train set. He built it himself over the past 11 years. It was very cool to see, even if the man was weird.




I wanted to get a better picture of the
kookaburra, but when I turned around to take
the pic, it was gone.


Paul spotted this wallaby alongside the road
while Chelsea and I were walking around
looking at all the koala's. It looked at us for a
while then hopped off into someones yard.


This one is doing some stretches.


The baby is hard to see. It's above
the mom, but hidden behind leaves.




This is one of the best pictures I got of them.
















If you know Andrew, you know this is a typical
face!

Friday, July 10, 2009

Mini-Vacation

Paul had off on Wednesday and Thursday this week, so we took a mini-vacation! We left around noon on Wednesday and just drove around. We went to the Mornington Peninsula and then ended up staying on Philip Island. On Thursday, we went to see some animals. We were able to feed and pet some of them. We loved it! We also went to the Nobbies. We've tried to go there twice before, but it was always too late when we got there so it was closed. We didn't get to see any seals, but the view was beautiful! On the way back home we stopped at a chocolate factory. We didn't take the tour, but did get some nice chocolate to bring home. I was able to take a ton of pictures!



The Nobbies






Tasmanian Devil!






Family





Look at the joey!


He kept popping out for a look!


Wombat


They were very active at this point!


A younger joey


We had some pelicans in the background.

















This little guy kept following us around for food!






The best I could get while riding in the car.