September 2018 - North Queensland
We headed down to Townsville with the hope of seeing koalas on Magnetic Island (pictures of that here), and had some time on the mainland. We went to the Billabong sanctuary to pet koalas (as a from of insurance in case we were unsuccessful in seeing them in the wild on Magnetic). They're adorable and it was totally worth it. That morning we also saw some (wild) wallabies, and a few more endemic birds. We flew from Townsville back to Cairns for our flight back to the US. The flight from Townsville to Cairns flies directly over the Great Barrier Reef, and it was really cool to see it from the air.
We headed down to Townsville with the hope of seeing koalas on Magnetic Island (pictures of that here), and had some time on the mainland. We went to the Billabong sanctuary to pet koalas (as a from of insurance in case we were unsuccessful in seeing them in the wild on Magnetic). They're adorable and it was totally worth it. That morning we also saw some (wild) wallabies, and a few more endemic birds. We flew from Townsville back to Cairns for our flight back to the US. The flight from Townsville to Cairns flies directly over the Great Barrier Reef, and it was really cool to see it from the air.
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| Petting a koala | ||
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| Koala's are cute! | Feeding the little wallabies | |
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| So cute! | Me and a wombat | The cassowaries that we failed to find in the wild |
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| Some wild ducks also live at the park - this one a plumed whistling duck, endemic to Australia! | Another wild bird, the scaly-breasted lorikeet, endemic to Australia! | Wallabies in the rising sun |
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| A field full of wallabies in the early morning | Boxing wallabies! | |
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| Hopping away! | A red-backed fairywren - endemic to Australia! | |
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| A yellow honeyeater - endemic to Australia! | A willie wagtail | A brown honeyeater |
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| The Great Barrier Reef from the air | ||
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| The mainland | Enjoying the flight! |