Reply With QuoteA couple of keen fishermen from work have seen the roo's down at golden beach, apparently they dig for pippies as the tide goes out.Originally Posted by Hymie
InterestingI spoke to a Ranger about what I saw and he thought that Roos swam in salt water to rid themselves of fleas etc.
Kind of a Roo day spa with bite
OldBushie
A couple of keen fishermen from work have seen the roo's down at golden beach, apparently they dig for pippies as the tide goes out.
ForumSage
Have seen roos in the surf east of Esperance before, but never seen a shark having a go at them. Would have been quite an unusual sight.
What I did see a few years ago was a wedge tailed eagle having a go at a small joey on the side of the road north of Meekatharra. I was travelling up to a mine site with another bloke, and we actually stopped the car and watched this for about 5 minutes. It was a very hot, dry spell, and the joey and its mother were close to the road, and obviously not in good condition.
The eagle swooped down from surrounding tree branches a number of times and grabbed the joey, trying to lift it off the ground and drag it away. It didn't have enough power to lift the joey completely, but did manage to lift it a metre or so off the ground on a couple of occasions. On each occasion, as the eagle got hold of the joey and tried to carry it away, the joey's mother would attack the eagle and chase it off back into nearby trees.
This went on for at least 5 minutes that we saw and, of course, not a camera in the car. It was one of the most incredible sights in nature that both I and the bloke in the car with me (who was in his 60's) had ever seen. Eventually the eagle gave up, but by this time the joey was pretty badly damaged and I'd say wouldn't have survived. There's a good chance that the eagle would eventually have had his feed.
Cheers .........
BMKAL
LordRover
SubscriberSo they can go fishing ?
MY08 TDV6 SE D3- permagrin ooh yeah
2004 Jayco Freedom tin tent
1998 Triumph Daytona T595
1974 VW Kombi bus
1958 Holden FC special sedan
SysAdmin (Owner)
smart shark...
cutting out the middleman so to speak...
they usually go the dogs, not the dogs tucker ....
2007 Discovery 3 SE7 TDV6 2.7
2012 SZ Territory TX 2.7 TDCi
"Make the lie big, make it simple, keep saying it, and eventually they will believe it." -- a warning from Adolf Hitler
"If you don't have a sense of humour, you probably don't have any sense at all!" -- a wise observation by someone else
'If everyone colludes in believing that war is the norm, nobody will recognize the imperative of peace." -- Anne Deveson
“What you leave behind is not what is engraved in stone monuments, but what is woven into the lives of others.” - Pericles
"We can ignore reality, but we cannot ignore the consequences of ignoring reality.” – Ayn Rand
"The happiness of your life depends upon the quality of your thoughts." Marcus Aurelius
ForumSage
SupporterAbout a month ago as I was whale watching at Jameson Point, a bit north of Narooma, I saw a kangaroo doing what could only be described as playing around in the surf.
I saw it first hopping along the sand before it headed into the surf until it was knocked over by a couple of waves. It returned to the beach for a short time and then headed back into the surf and repeated this half a dozen times over about 20 minutes.
At times it was in water up to about it neck, so when a wave came, it was bowled over and it just kept coming back for more.
There was no sign that it was trying to escape from any predator and seemed unconcerned by a couple of people about 20 or 30 yards further along the beach.
It must have been in the surf for at least 15 of the 20 minutes that I was watching.
A couple of days ago I saw something in Column 8 of the SMH where someone from Ulladulla was confirming that kangaroos enter the surf, saying he had seen one at Durras.
Maybe it's a South Coast thing.
Last edited by vnx205; 13th December 2007 at 04:14 PM.
1973 Series III LWB 1983 - 2006
1998 300 Tdi Defender Trayback 2006 - often fitted with a Trayon slide-on camper.
Amazing.
I had no idea a Kangaroo would do that
Wizard
tsch....tsch....tsch
Whats that Skip ?????
You're swimming out to meet Flipper ???
Bugger........ That wasn't Flipper.
2011 Range Rover Sport SDV6 Autobiography
2007 Range Rover Sport TDV6
2004 Freelander TD4 SE
1997 Range Rover 4.6 HSE
1994 Range Rover Vogue
----------------------------------------
tsch....tsch....tsch
Whats that Skip ?????
You're swimming out to meet Flipper ???
Bugger........ That wasn't Flipper.
OldBushie
A mate of mine was jet skiing in port phillip bay out off quarantine station near the channel, when he came across a kangaroo swimming, him and the other guy he was skiing with manaed to get it onto his ski and take it to shore, said it was buggered, must have been in a rip. Was crapping himelf whilst getting it on the ski, just waiting for a shark.
Posting Permissions
| Search AULRO.com ONLY! |
Search All the Web! |
|---|
|
|
|
Bookmarks