Topic: Wallabies, Wombats, and Roos, Oh My!

[nichi]

Wallaby

[nichi]

Wombat

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Kangaroos!

[nichi]

Mountain Possum

[nichi]

Duck-Billed Platypus

I seem to remember M saying he has one of these in his pond! (Did I dream it?)
Don't pick them up -- they have a poisonous claw in the rear.

[elliot]

yeah, pretty cool

[nichi]

Koala

[erik]

Wombat

Serious and busy chap. 

[nichi]

Wallabies and Roos both ... look like some serious trickster energy!

[nichi]

Kookaburra
 

[nichi]

These are just a few of the unique critters I think of, being a non-australian, that I'd love to see were I to go down there!
Tio has shown us so many too!

E, I'm pea-green with envy that you're going! 

[erik]

My wife has been in Aus and, as a biologist, she said it is SO different that is difficult to imagine! The green kingdom there is so different from what we have here, in northern  hemisphere - in Europe.

[nichi]

My wife has been in Aus and, as a biologist, she said it is SO different that is difficult to imagine! The green kingdom there is so different from what we have here, in northern  hemisphere - in Europe.

I can believe it, I really can!
The light, even, is so different there --- you can see it in some of the pictures here, and I've seen it in footage too, of the mountains in NSW, and in Tasmania.  No doubt, it's about the Southern Hemisphere, but then again ... it's different than the light I've seen in S.Hemisphere Africa!
I suppose it  goes to the energy and ancestry of the place too.

A different world for sure, and I'll bet .... your dreaming is different there! Can't wait to hear all about it, E!

I'll be with you all in spirit for sure!

[nichi]

Michael, how northerly in the N. Hemisphere have you gone, and how did you experience the light-difference?
(Or Tio, or Xero...)

I think you can see the light difference in a lot of E's & Jahn's pics -- there's a soft grey starkness therein...

[Michael]

yes we have all those but not all around here - koalas you have to go to a zoo to see, as they are up in trees. wombats are down south, platypus we have in the creek, but you would never see them like in that photo - still it is a real thrill when we see them. Almost every evening they come out.

The light IS different. It is very bright and harsh. Sunburn a problem. I spent all day in the sun on the Mediterranean once and only got mildly brown - you frizzle after an hour here. skin cancer is big in Aus. Every area of the globe has different light - an interesting thing.