First-time mum

This loggerhead turtle took a long time digging her nest, even longer before she started laying and then she had 104 ping-pong ball sized eggs to pop out - all before a crowd of about 30! (The water around her eyes could have been tears of pain, but the ranger assured us it was excess salt leaving her body).

Bundaberg

December 2nd 2006
We were exhauted and went straight to bed when we arrived in Bundy at 11pm. The next day I went to the lovely botanical gardens down the road from us. There were hundreds of huge Egrets nesting in the trees there. Olly was too tired to move and watched the cricket all day instead! The reason we went to Bundaberg was to go to Mon Repos, the most important sea turtle rookery in the world for log ... read more

Oceania » Australia » Queensland » Bundaberg

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

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