INTRO: We’ve been in Australia for over two years now and we’re still blown away by the sheer variety and uniqueness of the wild animals and birds that we come across whenever we venture outdoors. It is simply magical. Allow me to share some of them with you, captured by our very own camera lens. As you can tell, they do love to pose.
#1 The Swamp Wallaby.
The Wallaby differs in a number of ways to the kangaroo. It's smaller and darker in colour and unlike its bigger cousin, it prefers to live a predominantly solitary lifestyle. They are found only in Eastern Australia, and luckily for us are quite common in South Western Victoria. Whereas kangaroos prefer open scrub and countryside, you'll typically find Wallabies in the hills and forested areas.
We were only a few yards away watching him nibble his lunch without a care in the world. How cute are those hands? We snapped this back in 2010 on Griffith Island in Port Fairy, about three hours west of Point Cook where we live. We can also find them much closer to home in the national parks of You Yangs and Brisbane Ranges (where we saw one just the other day), and both are within an hour's drive of central Melbourne.
Credit to Alison for this amazing photo. She thinks it doesn't look real, I think it looks incredible.
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