G-day! And what a good day it was! The penguins were the most amazing part of our trip... until we went to the skydeck, then I'm not sure. We were sent to Australia by my work. I taught for a few days and worked a quilt show for a few days and played the rest of the time. This is us at the edge of the ocean way "Down Under." These penguins are about a foot tall and they come out of the ocean every night at dark. They waddle up the beach and burrow into the sand for the night and are D-A-A-R-L-I-N-G!
The ocean is breathtaking. We loved sitting and watching the waves roll in. Then every once in a while the waves on the beach would start to bubble and 15 or 20 penguins would flutter around and stand up and wander across the sand. What an incredible sight.
Part of the excursion took us through the green farmland. We stopped one place and saw lots wallabees, which are small kangaroos. But when we got close to the penguin parade it was dusk. There were so many wallabees it was like when we went to Bryce and there were Prairie Dogs EVERYWHERE. They were all out eating.
We also stopped at a reserve where there were koalas. Usually they sleep -- 20 hours of the days. But it was cloudy so they were quite active.
The trees were filled with parrots. NOISY BIRDS! We were totally hypnotized by them and just kept watching them. One of the locals told me to "Take th' bloody things 'ome wi' you!"
Then another day we saw hundreds of big white birds. Jerry got close enough that he thought they were big parrots. They turned out to be BIG Cockatus.
I'm glad we got to see the countryside and all of the green everywhere. I wanted to take a picture of everything.
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