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gemfyre ([personal profile] gemfyre) wrote2007-05-14 04:45 pm
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Quick quiz

When I say kangaroo, I mean large macropods. Anything bigger than a tammar or rock wallaby, which means quokkas don't count.

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[identity profile] stawberi.livejournal.com 2007-05-14 10:14 am (UTC)(link)
I live in Australia, and have clipped wild kangaroos with my car. :P

[identity profile] firvulag.livejournal.com 2007-05-15 06:11 am (UTC)(link)
mine wasn't 'clipped' so much as hit it with the grill. while braking from 120km/h. at night. through a railway crossing.

I was in my old Laser, he was a big Red. Car survived. Roo hopped off after being knocked over. Bumper didn't survive.

[identity profile] stawberi.livejournal.com 2007-05-15 08:39 am (UTC)(link)
V12 Jag Sovereign. Not a scratch.

[identity profile] princess-kessie.livejournal.com 2007-05-14 10:16 am (UTC)(link)
Heh - I live just south of Rockingham, right in the coastal suburban strip, and we have a wild mob of kangaroos literally 3km away, on the nature reserve alongside Lake Cooloongup. Hubby passes them every day going to and from work, and if you pass by at the right time, you can see them all feeding. I figure there's about a hundred or so in the mob, all Western Greys.

I find it funny that I live close to Rottnest, I've been there twice, and I have yet to actually see a quokka! ^_^

[identity profile] gemfyre.livejournal.com 2007-05-14 10:19 am (UTC)(link)
Really?!

Heh, I thought you had to have your eyes closed on Rotto to not see a quokka (hence why I didn't include them).

Went past Whiteman Park yesterday on the way to my sister's place and saw hundreds of Western Greys grazing.

[identity profile] princess-kessie.livejournal.com 2007-05-14 10:27 am (UTC)(link)
When I last went to Rotto it was not long after the Schoolies' Week a few years back when a group of kids got chucked off and arrested for playing quokka soccer. The grassed areas, much of the bushland and the whole of Tent City was all fenced off, and basically the quokkas were in seclusion/hiding. The first time we arrived by boat, tied up at Pinky's Beach, and didn't venture anywhere else but The Basin - and didn't see a single one.

Just (un)lucky, I guess.

And would you believe, I've lived in WA for 25 years, and I have not once been to Whiteman Park...

[identity profile] morningglorymlp.livejournal.com 2007-05-14 12:15 pm (UTC)(link)
*sign* I miss Australia and your wildlife.

[identity profile] firvulag.livejournal.com 2007-05-15 06:09 am (UTC)(link)
How about I live in Australia and have gone Roo shooting successfully.
I live in Australia and have run into a Wild Roo with a car.
I live in Australia and have eaten Roo
I live in Australia and thinks Roos are great
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