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The Animals That Chose Not to Kill Me This Summer
Three weeks before year’s end, we set off on a long-looked-forward-to summer holiday, conveniently forgetting that Australia is home to some of the most dangerous animals on earth. Naively excited, as only the normally deskbound can be, we left the … Continue reading
Posted in The Animal Kingdom, travel
Tagged Albury, Black Cockatoo Cottages, Bright, Bundanoon, Eden, emus, Gippsland Lakes, Golden Beach, Goulburn, Great Alpine Road, Gundagai, Holbtook, Hume Highway, Hume Highway rest stops, Lakes Entance, Millars Landing, Mount Buffalo, Mt Doom, Murray River, Ovens River, Princess Highway, road trip, Sea Spray, sharks, Squeaky Beach, summer holiday, Tarcutta, The Honeysuckles, tiger snake, Trincullo Wreck, Victorian Alps, Wilson's Promontory, worshipping rocks, Yanakie
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The summer of drop bears
This summer, on our road trip to Portland, Victoria, I discovered that Koalas almost outnumber humans and are so common that they’re ignored by the locals as they walk down the main street. Okay, I’m exaggerating but only a little. … Continue reading
Posted in The Animal Kingdom
Tagged australia, Australian wildlife, baby koala, candid camera, Cape Bridgewater, Cape Bridgewater seal colony, Crater Rim track at Budji Bim National Park, drop bears, Great South West Walk, koalas, Manna gums, Mount Richmond, Mum and bub, nature, Portland Victoria, road trip, summer, summer reading, travel, travel writing, UNESCO World Heritage List, walking
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