Skippy

Its coming up to my year anniversary in Australia and other than the zoo this sign is about as close as I have got to seeing a Kangaroo. Even though they are apparently everywhere I have had no luck.

 But yesterday I got to see Skippy finally and the didn't disappoint. Keen to get some fresh air we went on the Bushranger's trail along the coast down on the Mornington Peninsula. The walk is a 11km round trip starting at Bushranger's bay and ending up at Cape Schanck lighthouse.

The sea is pretty wet and wild along this bit of coast. The Australian PM Harold Holt went swimming off the coast in 1967. He disappeared when swimming and his body was never found.

The walk took us a couple of hours an apart from Joe being attacked and bitten by inch long black ants (everything over here wants to kill you!), everything was pretty uneventful.... until we spotted these guys, they were so close and didn't seem concerned about us at all. I finally got to see my kangaroos :)

You can just see the Joey's feet sticking out of his mum's pouch he was so big he could only fit in head first.

I think I may have to go visit them again soon, so long as I can convince Joe there will be no more killer ants!