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! ^_^
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...
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Date: 2007-05-14 10:16 am (UTC)I find it funny that I live close to Rottnest, I've been there twice, and I have yet to actually see a quokka! ^_^
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Date: 2007-05-14 10:19 am (UTC)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.
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Date: 2007-05-14 10:27 am (UTC)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...