Kangaroo Island - the best wildlife place ever !
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- Created on: 12/07/2009
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We flew from Sydney to Adelaide, then drove to the ferry to go to Kangaroo Island. When we got there we went to this place called Seal Bay where we went on a guided walk on this beach with lots of sea lions lying down and doing different things. Some of the babies were swimming in the ocean and others were walking on the beach and calling to try and find their moms. It was really cool.
After that we stopped at Kelly Hill Conservation Park to look for echidnas which kind of look like porcupines mixed with small anteaters. It is a Monotreme mammal which means it lays eggs. It is one of the 2 animals in this family. The other is the Platypus. We went along this path and didn’t see anything until we saw this guy and he said he’d seen one at the start of the path. We ran back to the start and couldn’t find it, but then my mom and sister saw it next to the path. After we watched for awhile we went back and right before we were leaving we saw 2 Kangaroo Island kangaroos. One was an adult and one was a joey.
Then we went to try and find koalas. We walked down a wide path with eucalyptus trees on either side. We saw 3 koalas really low down in the trees and one making really loud sounds and running on the ground. Then we drove to our hotel, Kangaroo Island Wildernes Resort. On the way we saw lots of Tammar Wallabies and a few more kangaroos. In the evening at the hotel we saw a kangaroo and more wallabies and we got to feed one. There were also some Brushtail possums and one with a baby in its pouch.
The next day before breakfast we saw a baby wallaby in its mom's pouch. Then we went to the Remarkable Rocks in Flinders Chase National Park. The Remarkable Rocks are a bunch of really weird and big granite rocks. We climbed up some of them. It was really fun. After that we went to Admirals Arch, a place where New Zealand and Australian Fur Seals are found. We walked down boardwalks and saw lots of fur seals. Some of the males were playfighting.
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