Wallaby and Me

Beach Bumming

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May 8th 2010
Hi, everybody! We thoroughly enjoyed the Billabong Koala Recovery Centre near McQuarry Park in the Blue Mountains. We were given little cups of corn kernels to feed the animals and allowed to walk among the wallabies and kangaroos. Barry got a picture of one roo that had a gangly baby hanging out its pouch. There were birds, dingoes and reptiles, as well as the adorable-looking koalas. We w ... read more

Oceania » Australia » Queensland » Caloundra

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Aboriginal settlers arrived on the continent from Southeast Asia about 40,000 years before the first Europeans began exploration in the 17th century. No formal territorial claims were made until 1770, when Capt. James COOK took possession in the name... ... read more