Animal Rescue!!

Gareth took us off up to Ku-rin-gai Chase National Park today for a taste of the bush.

We headed up to West Head to look out over the Northern Beaches where we're staying (just to the right of the photo below) and Lion Island. Which helped orientate me a little bit.
On our way back we came across a Rock Wallaby lying at the side of the road. My first instinct would have been to drive on as it was obviously close to death. But I'm glad Gareth was driving. As we passed the animal twitched, which was a sign that it had a 'joey' in its pouch. Something I wouldn't even have thought about. We pulled the car over and wandered up to the mother, to find a nervous and bewildered but otherwise healthy little wallaby in its pouch.

Gareth teased it out of its pouch and we wrapped it up in a towel in the hope of passing it over to the Park Ranger at the gate. Look at this picture below and try not to say 'Awwwww!!'.


Eventually we handed little 'Monty' over to the local animal rescue group W.I.R.E.S. who invited us in to look at some of the other fauna they were looking after. We were greeted by a plethora of cute noses and giant eyes.

Not to mention the bizarre sight of a young fruit bat with a dummy in its mouth.
Our good deed done we heade off to Whale Beach for a well deserved dip.
I'll keep you updated on wee Monty's progress. Hopefully leading up to a Rolf Harris-like teary farewell as we set him free again.