George the Master Possum
I've been in Oz for almost 2 weeks now, and I'm loving it, stayed with my cousin Brian in Melbourne for a night and have been camping since then, its soo much fun. We moved to a new campsite last night and its a realy realy busy one, so far I've seen 3 different busses!! Thats a huge difference from our last campsite, most of the time we were the only people camping there, is was soo cool and it was out in the middle of nowhere a good drive along dirt roads and its proper camping, they have a tap from a rainwater tank and a toilet, so we're in town today to use the "showers"??? (is that the right word) at the swimming pool, I hear people still do them.
I climbed my hardest ever route yesterday, I'm really impressing myself and loving the climbing here.
It was sad leaving our old campsite last night, it felt like we were leaving about 20 pets behind, the animals are so tame, and are 10 times more entertaining than TV, you guys would probably agree. We had possims (about 100) at least 3 kookabaras and kangaroos and wallabies for africa. After yesterday I can tell the difference between kangaroos and wallabies. Kangaroos are big and wallabies are small, I was walking through the forest on my own up to the climbing wall (40mins walk up a very steep hill) and I saw a Big Red, the thing is massive (reminded me of Tom and Jerry's Kangaroo), about a foot taller than me and it was only 20m away and then another one hiding in the bushes, that was awesome, they looked at me for a while and then went bouncing off into the bush/forest. Wallabies are smaller than me.
Have you seen Ice age 2, remember the possims, well these ones are just as mischeivious. They look like giant squirrels, the bigones are almost 2 feet long, not counting their tails. Be glad that you only have one mouse. We have a food tent for all our food and the possims got into it 3 times already, the chancers!!! They'll steal stuff from under your chair and then stand 2m away munching on it, it the time it takes for you to take a sip out of your coffee. And then the cheak, when you walk over to shoo them away, they take 2 steps and then stop!!! At least your mouse hides away. I got to stroke a few of them its really a strange thing to do, its just a cute little BIG squirrel with a very soft fur that has stolen all your breakfast and the last marshmallow for the FIRE!!!! Going to miss George the Master Possum, he's this very big possum that isn't afraid of anything, bet you he was the one that broke into our tent.
The Kangaroos are better, they havn't stolen anything yet, I got 3m away from a wallaby and its little Joey yesterday and they just carried on munching their tasty grass as if I was just a curious little bird.
Those Kookabaras!!!! One tried to eat my sandwiches!!!!!!! They're the laziest birds I've ever seen and like Neal says food is higher on their list of priorities than we are, they're just as cheeky as those Possims. They're funny to watch, when they come land on our picnic table, its almost like he doesn't make an effort to stop his head from flying forward and the only thing that stops him headbutting the table is his long beak, I think thats why they have such long beaks, its soo cool though, they'll swoop down from their perch obove the table brush past you and announce their arrival at the table.
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