Moonlit Sanctuary

The weather was better today than I expected. It was supposed to be rainy in the AM and then just cloudy in the afternoon. It was, in fact, pretty nasty in the morning, so I dawdled around more than usual. I wanted to go to the Moonlit Sanctuary SE of Melbourne and try to get some Wallaby footage. They have a area with free roaming Kangaroos and Wallabies and since this is my last day in Australia, I thought I’d give it a shot. By the time I arrived there, the wether had actually cleared off and was fairly sunny. I got my Wallabies, a couple Kangaroos and one more dozing Koala Bear. So I’m finished with my Australia filming and tomorrow I’m off to Bangkok for a month to catch up on my postproduction projects.


Another snoozer.


Here’s a Wallaby. They are much smaller than a Kangaroo and tend to live more in forests than out on grassy plains.


Here’s another one foraging for something good to eat.


This is a smaller species of Wallaby. Except for the long tail and the little Joey in the pouch, they look more like Rabbits than Kangaroos.


Here’s a Roo lounging in the sunshine.


This place obviously gets Asian tour groups that have never seen anything but a squat toilet (a hole in the floor). Sometimes they need some special instruction on how to use a toilet. There’s an old joke that is appropriate for this situation:

You know you are in Asia when you see footprints on the toilet seat.
You know you’ve been in Asia a long time when you see footprints on the toilet seat and it doesn’t seem strange.
You know you’ve been in Asia too long when you see footprints on the toilet seat and realize that they are you own.