Kangaroos at Australian War Memorial

[skyring]

Kangaroos at Australian War Memorial,
originally uploaded by skyring.

Coming back from Dickson this evening, I noticed a few roos grazing on the oval at my teenage son's high school. As it happened, I had my camera with me, and pulled over to take a few shots. These two are males, as may be visible to those with an interest, but I took some photographs of a mother and joey, and these can be seen on my Flickr page.

Comments

[joybon.livejournal.com]

Hello,
What fun!
You know, we have extended opening hours on Thursday nights until 9pm: airing the 2005 Gallipoli film and a special closing ceremony.

[skyring.livejournal.com]

I think I might turn up, then. I've been wanting to look at the current art exhibition for a while.

[joybon.livejournal.com]

It is *really* good.
I might be there with the parentals this thursday as well
(next thursday is also late close)
(the closing ceremony at 8:50pm is magical)
(in a sad kind of way)
!

[cathepsut.livejournal.com]

Yep, males, no doubt about it. Poor mother, talk about stretch marks, after carrying around that joey!

[onyerbike.livejournal.com]

These two are males, as may be visible to those with an interest....

Geez! It's visible to those without an interest, too! Why isn't that phrase "hung like a kangaroo"??

[skyring.livejournal.com]

Cripes yeah! If I was a bloke kangaroo with the family jewels hanging out like that, no way would I go bounding and leaping through the scrub in that extraordinary fashion, banging on every stump and rock in my path.

Then again, maybe that explains the leaping and bounding about.

[onyerbike.livejournal.com]

*snort*!
Jump. Ow! Bound. Ow! Jump. Dammit!

Sureal

[wombles.livejournal.com]

They're very sureal looking aren't they. The closest one looks like he could overbalance at any time.

Re: Sureal

[skyring.livejournal.com]

Looks like he's got a counterweight...

Saw some more last night. The foreign tourists walking back to their cars were delighted to find kangaroos hopping around them!

Re: Sureal

[wombles.livejournal.com]

I don't see Kangaroos in the "wild" here and I don't live in the city! We have Tripod the 3 legged possum and numerous very loud birds though!

[wandering-sag.livejournal.com]

*giggle*

you hve heard the story of me going utterly nuts when peggysmum took me on the tour around Canberra and we went by the Governor General's house and there were 'roos on the lawn. They were my first wild ones and I was nuts.
Got that undercontrol--by the end I only squeed at koalas :)

[skyring.livejournal.com]

Actually I was just re-reading that. A mob of roos in an urban environment is exciting, and I can well imagine you going berko with the camera. I was rapt this time last year when I saw a couple of deer standing beside a train line in Northern Virginia.

[wandering-sag.livejournal.com]

It was quite amusing--and then the following day when we went on the roadtrip with Unbalanced. We stopped for me to take photos of a dirt road, but not the wombat!roadkill because that was gross. I remember thinking I would see 'roos in the Blue Mtns but when I didn't I wondered if I'd ever see them in the wild so wsa quite excited in Canberra. Wish I'd had a good telefoto then, would have come in handy but printed off a few roo pics in the collection for the parentals ;)