downunder update

Meet Migaloo, a large albino humpback whale who travels regularly along the east coast of Australia during the whale migration season from late June to October.
Forget Moby Dick. The fictional white whale is legendary, but the magnificent Migaloo is living, a wondrous and unique mammal of great beauty. Records have been kept for [...]

Rottnest Island is a special destination for interstate and international visitors. The whole island is a Nature Reserve of indigenous flora and fauna, including the curious Quokka, and no public vehicles are allowed.
Rottnest Island was named in 1696 by Navigator Willem de Vlamingh after the many large rats that he imagined he had found [...]

If any animal could benefit from a total image makeover, it’s got to be the rat.
There’s a bit of attention on them at the moment, this being the Year of the Rat, and the publicity of the festivities has caused quite a few Nervous Nellies to look more carefully around the compost bin.
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