24th June – Wednesday
Bit cloudy this morning, so decided it would be a good day to visit the Desert Park, which is run by the Northern Territory Government. The park is set out into the three desert divisions – woodland, sand and desert rivers, with a number of tracks winding through each and a large number of walk-through aviaries. Cat came face to face with a Spinifex hopping mouse in one of the shelter sheds.
A number of activities take place during the day and the first on our list was on Aboriginal survival in the desert and conducted by two members of the local Aboriginal tribe. Not only very informative, but great entertainment as well. If anyone is interested, witchetty grubs should not be tossed onto the barbecue, they should be roasted in the coals!
We only had time for a quick sandwich before the nocturnal house guided tour. This would be one of the best nocturnal houses we have seen – very well set out – and a guide from North America who informed us of all the “critters” in the enclosures.
The day concluded with the Nature Theatre and the birds of prey. Although free flying, they were very well controlled and the buzzard was the only one who took his time coming in for a feed. Cat was very wary about these large raptors flying very close to us.
Not a great day for photos today.
Bit cloudy this morning, so decided it would be a good day to visit the Desert Park, which is run by the Northern Territory Government. The park is set out into the three desert divisions – woodland, sand and desert rivers, with a number of tracks winding through each and a large number of walk-through aviaries. Cat came face to face with a Spinifex hopping mouse in one of the shelter sheds.
A number of activities take place during the day and the first on our list was on Aboriginal survival in the desert and conducted by two members of the local Aboriginal tribe. Not only very informative, but great entertainment as well. If anyone is interested, witchetty grubs should not be tossed onto the barbecue, they should be roasted in the coals!
We only had time for a quick sandwich before the nocturnal house guided tour. This would be one of the best nocturnal houses we have seen – very well set out – and a guide from North America who informed us of all the “critters” in the enclosures.
The day concluded with the Nature Theatre and the birds of prey. Although free flying, they were very well controlled and the buzzard was the only one who took his time coming in for a feed. Cat was very wary about these large raptors flying very close to us.
Not a great day for photos today.
2 comments:
Right - finally caught up on your doings in the red centre! Sounds like you're having a great time!
Remember that if you want to have a chat to Jack next week you'll need to call Shan's phone as they'll be in Brisbane from Monday.
I have a picture of a spinifex hopping mouse on my wall at work that Michael drew for me :)
Strange to have American tour guides telling you about Australian wildlife!
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