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My safari to South Africa was a disaster...

Started Feb 28, 2018 | Discussions thread
NZ Scott
NZ Scott Veteran Member • Posts: 5,201
Aussie animals

Tom Caldwell wrote:

Nothing like playing the white photographer-hunter by renting an open jeep, wearing a big brimmed hat, finding your own way about, and sleeping in a tent in the bush

A tour or safari must become tuned down to the pace of the slowest. What it makes up in local knowledge, guides and comfortable lodging it loses in being tailored to the averaged out needs of a group.

Moutain lions, bears and a moose or two are posibly more a nuisance when least expected than found roaming wild in a farmers paddock. Here kangaroos and emus don’t mix that well in densely settled farm districts but can be found in odd places inhabiting headlands even for all to see if they only knew where to look.

On the other hand you can walk through Australian forest for days and harly see a bird let alone a furry animal (snake or lizard) but they are there and they know we are there and that is why they are not seen.

Man, the last time I went hiking in Australia I saw several koalas, heaps of parrots, a kookaburra, two snakes and dozens of kangaroos.

That was the Great Ocean Walk, south of Melbourne.

Best place to actually see them is in a zoo.

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