Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2009/03/11
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Brian I think that perhaps the answer to your conundrums lies in your own post. The part about baby Shiraz wines! However to actually be helpful, the animals are largely nocturnal. The best viewing times are at dawn or dusk. They especially are not active in the heat of the day. They are quiet and a lot better at spotting you than you are them. Koalas live in particular eucalypt trees and sleep a lot. They do not however roam in photogenic packs in the grasslands ;-) By the way the kolas there are actually introduced from the mainland and all from 18 animals introduced in the 1920's Inbred beasts! The best way to see unfenced wildlife is to sit quietly in the early morning in their habitat. Yesterday quietly walking for half an hour through a strip of scrubby creek margin near home, I saw more than 50 kangaroos at ranges from 10 metres to perhaps 200 metres. The last population figures I could find for KI were: 1.5 million sheep; 1 million Tammar Wallabies; 15000 koalas; thousands of tiger snakes, etc A human population of 4000. Keep looking !! I rather suspect the gift shop lady was having a little joke with you. Its been known to happen! To take a peek without sitting under trees with a few baby shiraz bottles, you can try these spots Hanson Bay Wildlife Sanctuary South Coast Road Western KI Parndana Wildlife Park Plsyford Highway Pardana (in the heartland) Pauls Place Stokes Bay Road Stokes Bay These places will have tame critters that you can feed or cuddle. Don't forget to see the penguins and Australian Sea lions . Those populations are entirely wild but you can see them up close. See you in Adelaide and you can preview your pictures to me over a shiraz or three. 2009/3/11 Brian Reid <reid at mejac.palo-alto.ca.us> > Is it true that there were once kangaroos and other macropods on Kangaroo > Island? Is a koala something like a jackalope, a fictitious creature > invented by the stuffed animal industry to be relentlessly cute? A visit to > Kangaroo Island does not reveal the answers to these questions. > > I've seen seagulls, spiders, and snakes, but nothing that I couldn't see in > the Bronx Zoo. Strange. > > At the information desk inside the visitor's centre at Flinders Chase > National Park I asked the best place to go to see Australian animals. Her > answer, and I'm not making this up: "The gift shop." > > There are remarkable rocks, though. And entirely too many baby Shiraz > vines. > > > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information > -- Cheers Geoff 'Pick up your Leica and make the best photo you can' http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/gh/a/ http://www.pbase.com/hoppyman