Friday, August 16, 2013

Where's Wallaby?

Today Andy was the one to leave early for a day of learning about Koori court and left me home to tend the house and prepare for dinner guests. I thought I'd use the early rising as an opportunity to get out and do some wallaby scouting. The sky was bright blue and sunny, but the wind was definitely brisk. I walked down to the dunes and around to all of the prior wallaby-sighting spots, but to no avail. I watched the birds and listened to the wind. I also listened to the birds and watched the wind.

These lovelies took turns leading me along the path for a while.


I had to take a lot of pictures to capture this one. Look at that bright red spot on his head! It has a bit of the honey eater coloring. I got a local bird book from the uni library, but oddly, it doesn't have that many pictures so I am not sure what it is.


I also took pictures of some interesting dead trees.


The waves were blowing back in dramatic ways. After about 90 minutes or so of exploring new paths, I decided that perhaps the early bird does not catch the wallaby and I settled on to a bench to watch a surfer. After two or three closeouts, I started to return back down the path toward home, and then. there. they. were!

I doubled back and climbed 3 feet off the path (shhh!!) to get a shot of these two. 


And individual shots of the two, a little bit closer (and a decent zoom lens).


Where's Wallaby?

 I guess they're late risers and were just waiting for the sun to get a little higher in the sky.


Who dat?


I had seen three separate wallabies, and then, just before I left the dunes, these two were hanging out. The one on the right looked a lot younger.


I tried to get a closer shot of the littler one who watched me walk all the way up the path and out of the dunes.


Bye Bye for today, Wallabies!!

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