Wildlife viewing
While we were in Australia, we tried to find an echidna. Unfortunately, we had no luck with that (I did find a couple of porcupines in a tree last week though). But we did spot some other animals.
Of course, Howard went looking for fish. He checked minnow traps in the Hopkins River every single day.
The girls were roped in to hunting for fish.
And we found gudgeon!
Lots of gudgeon!
Lots and lots of gudgeon!
Big gudgeon...
And little gudgeon too.
On the last day, he pickled one.
In the meantime, I was distracted by smaller creatures....
We tried to find a few quintessential Aussie animals too.
We found a koala in the Framlingham forest! I think there's a joey there. When Imogen and I spotted it, we called out to Paloma and Howard to hurry hurry run run run come and see the koala! I don't know what the rush was... it's obviously not going anywhere any time soon...
On our way up to the Grampians, some emus wandered by...
And then there were a couple of lizardy visitors.
Oh, and did we mention that we caught a freshwater eel in the Hopkins? Yep, you read that right - an EEL!!!! I don't know if I've ever seen one there before (although Grandpa reports seeing them migrating in herds).
Paloma was rather smitten...
She even gave the eel a quick little hug.
As you can imagine, Howard was rather pleased too.
Paloma didn't like the idea of eating it.
So our eel friend went back to nature...
