Saturday, April 29, 2006


Mum bottle-feeding baby kangaroo

I wouldn’t normally mention my trips to the ‘ladies’, however on this occasion it was a notable experience because as I made my way round the back of the café to the toilets, there sat a woman and a little girl bottle-feeding a baby grey kangaroo!! It was so adorable, it turns out that the lady runs a kangaroo orphanage and rears the babies until they can cope on their own in the wild. The babies are usually those that are rescued from a mother’s pouch after she has died (normally on the road). Mum and I got to feed it as well and then we watched as it hopped off with its friend the little girl! They even have a sack hung from the wall (resembling a pouch) for it to hop into on an evening to sleep!

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