An even earlier start today and after a couple of viewing stops we head down the coast to Wilson's Promontory National Park. Wilson's Prom is the most southern part of mainland Australia, once joined by a landbridge to Tasmania. As a national park it does pretty well as the usual pests (feral dogs, cats, foxes, rabbits) find it more difficult to get there. We walk across Squeaky beach which is beautiful and along the headland to each lunch on "the Prom", on one side is the Tasman sea which joins up with the Pacific, on the other the Southern Ocean which is fed by the Antarctic ocean. The weather's finally stabilised and it all looks beautiful in the sunshine.
Back from the coast a bit and where the bush is cleared to create a landing strip we encounter the mobs of grey backed kangaroos (great collective noun huh?) who like to hang out there. They're pretty used to humans and some have been tagged for research projects but still wild and it was amazing to see them. I still can't get over how they bounce across the landscape! We also see emus, a blue-tongued lizard, wombat holes and the poisonous Red Back spiders- though only usually fatal to children, a decent sized adult would have a fairly unpleasant few days and probably need a hospital trip.
Away from the Bushland and onto Melbourne.
An even earlier start today and after a couple of viewing stops we head down the coast to Wilson's Promontory National Park. Wilson's Prom is the most southern part of mainland Australia, once joined by a landbridge to Tasmania. As a national park it does pretty well as the usual pests (feral dogs, cats, foxes, rabbits) find it more difficult to get there. We walk across Squeaky beach which is beautiful and along the headland to each lunch on "the Prom", on one side is the Tasman sea which joins up with the Pacific, on the other the Southern Ocean which is fed by the Antarctic ocean. The weather's finally stabilised and it all looks beautiful in the sunshine.
Back from the coast a bit and where the bush is cleared to create a landing strip we encounter the mobs of grey backed kangaroos (great collective noun huh?) who like to hang out there. They're pretty used to humans and some have been tagged for research projects but still wild and it was amazing to see them. I still can't get over how they bounce across the landscape! We also see emus, a blue-tongued lizard, wombat holes and the poisonous Red Back spiders- though only usually fatal to children, a decent sized adult would have a fairly unpleasant few days and probably need a hospital trip. 
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