Deane & Jack's Motorcycle Trip in
Australia and New Zealand
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Deane & Jack's Motorcycle Trip in Australia and New Zealand |
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March 28 - Port Arthur to Bicheno, Tasmania 284km (176 Miles) |
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The highlight of the day!! - A visit to "Zoo Doo" Australian Animal Park This little Koala is just 8 months old. He was an orphan, so lives at the private zoo with two adults as foster parents. Little ones come out of the mother's pouch pretty much completely at about six months. He was quite happy to have Deane hold him.
Here's Jack feeding one of the many Wallabies. This one was a dainty eater, with good manners.
Deane gets his chance to feed a Wallaby. There were about 12-15 Wallabies, all competing for their share of the food - hay pellets with grain and seeds.
This little Wallaby is a really cute one. Compare his size with the Kangaroo in the next photo. The head zoo man said that the main difference between Wallabies and kangaroos is size of the adult. - The Kangaroo just gets a lot bigger.
Here is a Kangaroo, for comparison with the Wallaby. Also, this Kangaroo mother has a "Joey" in her pouch. Look carefully and you will see a foot and an ear sticking out from the pouch.
Here is a "Tasmanian Devil". Tomorrow we are going to visit the Trowunna Wildlife Park to see a group who are trying to save the Tasmanian Devils in Tasmania from a disease that id killing many of them. We'll see more of them tomorrow.
The Zoo Doo also had, and we got to feed, Emus, Ostriches, Llamas, Alpacas, two Camels, a Water Buffalo, and last but not least, farm animals that kids could feed and pet. Then when we got to our motel, we got to see "Fairy Penguins". Our travel agent, Paula Kay, had chosen this motel because it was close to a rookery of very small penguins, about 12" high, and a tour was available to see them as they come in from the ocean. They come in at night, after dark, and at this time of year come in to rest, after being out to sea for extended periods of time. What a neat day. Riding on the eastern side of Tasmania was quite scenic, with mountains, ocean, and green valleys, was very good., and then with all of the animals we saw, it was just great!! (By the way, the roads on Tasmania are in good repair generally, and the surfaces are quite good. However, the roads are quite narrow in places. A road crew was out doing "plant road" work. We saw that "plant road" work was cleaning plants off the shoulder of the road with a road grader, and then placing sand to discourage plants from growing again. The problem was that the sand gets pushed out in the road on corners by cars, and going around corners is scary sometimes. I had the back tire step out once but I caught it.) |
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