Reading the article on the front page reminded me that we spent a very pleasant week at the Kookaburra Caravan Park in Busselton WA in 2007.
We found the park to be very nice, clean and close to the shops etc.
There were plenty of Possums there at that time and I remember they had a ball jumping onto our caravan roof, running along from one end to the other and sliding down the awning, then back up the tree, back onto our caravan and once more sliding down the awning, this continued for most of the night and I swear the little buggers were wearing hobnailed boots.
We went out with a torch the next night and couldn't believe how many of the cute little things were in the trees around the park, unfortunately I left the camera in the van so didn't get any pics.
It is certainly heartening to read that something is being done to protect them and all credit to the powers that be and the park managers for their efforts.
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haha talk about possums. Wendy and I stayed at the caravan park in Wagga Wagga i reckon they played footy on our van alnight with hobnailed boots on. Was gunna be a dirty weekend, but no sleep fixed that.
haha talk about possums. Wendy and I stayed at the caravan park in Wagga Wagga i reckon they played footy on our van alnight with hobnailed boots on. Was gunna be a dirty weekend, but no sleep fixed that.
What's a dirty weekend? My memory doesn't go back that far.
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Geez, that was a missed opportunity. What else would you do at night when you're being kept awake by frisky possums? If memory serves me correctly, you can't have a dirty weekend AND sleep. What were you thinking? They did the caravan laps in Broome too. Northern brush tails lived in the ensuite roof and galloped across the van, under the tropical roof on my old van, and up to the mahogany trees overhead. I occasionally slipped them some bits of apple or carrot. One mum possum was even teaching the little one how to do it. She left the baby behind to make its own way over from roof to van, but the little one got scared, so mum went back, put baby on back and over they came. Tanunda Caravan Park also has a small population of brush tails and every night they literally hang off the bricks to take snacks from tourists' hands. Many parks have gardens and trees which house native wildlife, not always in vans and tents. This park in Cairns has a prolific bird population all year round. It's beautiful.
-- Edited by Cruising Granny on Tuesday 27th of October 2009 02:06:30 PM
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Granny i thought a dirty weekend was when u didnt wash, I had to wash the sleep out of my eyes ummm am i missing something oi Granny im a bird lover sounds like i should head that way. Maybe after another visit to Venus Bay next april [fishing]
bloody possums, we struck the mongrels over in the western KI caravan park, they jumped off the top of the tree straight on to our awning and then climbed the tree to do it again, this kept up all night, next morning I found where the littel mongrel things slept (down in the tree guards) so I kept pouring water over them at various times throughout the day to keep them awake,
see how those rotten little mongrels liked it, they werent too happy, next time I'll take the shotgun, between them and the koalas ****ting on the camper roof there was little sleep
the most road kill I have ever encountered was the first time we stepped foot on tasmania, the north east highway was painted in blood for miles from devils and little potteroos, bloody shame
Granny i thought a dirty weekend was when u didnt wash, I had to wash the sleep out of my eyes ummm am i missing something oi Granny im a bird lover sounds like i should head that way. Maybe after another visit to Venus Bay next april [fishing]
It seems you are missing something, but I'm not going to even give you a clue. You can go to Venus Bay for all that whiting any time you like. Around to Point Labbatt to have a look at all those seals below, Murphy's Haystacks - the granite wonder which really had me intrigued. If you're travelling to Venus via Lincoln have you ever checked out Sheringa Beach east of Elliston? There some amazing deep reef formations on the beach.
There is a honey eater in this park which isn't in my bird book. I live next to a native fig tree, and it hosts a wide variety of birds during the day. They all take shifts in eating figs, and at night the bl--dy bats hang up there and throw figs and other seeds down onto my van. It sounds like I'm being bombarded. Fortunately they don't crap on the van. There are Torres Strait Pigeons, black butcherbirds, oreoles, fig parrots, rainbow lorikeets, curlews with 2 chicks, and other common species which can be just as entertaining. Some of the antics make me laugh.
Happy travels wherever you go.
-- Edited by Cruising Granny on Wednesday 28th of October 2009 11:53:00 AM
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if you want possums , come to Magnetic is, QLD. YOU CAN HAVE AS MANY AS YOU WANT AS LONG AS YOU TAKE THEM WITH YOU WHEN YOU GO!They do the midnight walze on my roof every night, and one even lives in me sheds roller door.I like wildlife , but too many makes you feel like necking a few(thousand)
if you want possums , come to Magnetic is, QLD. YOU CAN HAVE AS MANY AS YOU WANT AS LONG AS YOU TAKE THEM WITH YOU WHEN YOU GO!They do the midnight walze on my roof every night, and one even lives in me sheds roller door.I like wildlife , but too many makes you feel like necking a few(thousand)
One of my sons is a pest exterminator and he gets regular calls to get rid of possums so he traps them and has to release them in the same place as they were trapped. Makes a fortune out of it....The ACT if you are near water is experiencing an Echnida plague at the moment, Ok not as agressive as a possum but they make a real mess digging - fortunatley I have a concrete yard!
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Wildlife! - Love it or hate it, some nice, some not so nice. Cairns is looking to get a permit to cull the stinking flying foxes. They carry the Horse Flu virus. They're protected for some unexplicable reason. Can anyone explain it?
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Management makes the decisions, but is not affected by the decisions it makes.
My memory doesn't go back that far.
