Spectacle Eye Flying Fox

Kuranda Batreach

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December 27th 2007
I started out my trip working in the Bat Rescue and Rehabiliation Centre in Kuranda (Batreach). Kuranda is a small and very quaint village circled by the barron river and rainforest. I got to care for flying fox fruit bats, sugar gliders, native rats and other marsupials aswell as a dog named jack who loved to go on walks by the river getting an ice cream on the way. ... read more

Oceania » Australia » Queensland » Kuranda

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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