Some images from Ballina NSW, including some roadkill. Back in the day when you could travel in Glady’s Gulag.
Category Archives: marsupials
Common walleroo
Reaching into the image archive of the Excellent Adventure again, this time the walleroo or Macropus robustus. Click to see full size image.
Tasmanian echidna – Tachyglossus aculeatus setosus
Also known as an albino echidna because of its lighter colour. The other name is pale-coloured echidna which is more accurate, as it is much lighter in colour than the mainland echidna.
Kangaroo Island Tamar Wallaby
The Kangaroo Island Tamar Wallaby or Notamacropus eugenii decres. Kangaroo Island is full of wildlife, which took a beating in the recent bushfires. The Doc visited for three weeks in 2014, about 8 years after the last big fire (full report here). Roadkill was plentiful as the wildlife was abundant. Click on image to see full size. Viva Cristo Ray.
Bridled Nail Tail Wallaby
Working through some images during lockdown. Some rare photos of the endangered Bridled Nail Tail Wallaby from AWC’s Scotia Sanctuary. Click on the image to see full size.
Yellow-footed Rock Wallaby
Digging deep into the The Doc’s secret archives comes a variety of images of Australia’s most beautiful macropod, the Yellow-footed Rock Wallaby. The Doc has posted a few in the past, but none of these images.
Flinders Island wildlife
Just reviewing some older photos from Flinders Island. Here is a small selection of a wombat and Bennett’s Wallaby.
Arkaroola, Northern Flinders Ranges, SA
Arkaroola Wilderness Sanctuary
Arkaroola is in the northern Flinders Ranges. Millions of years ago a large rift valley was formed. After the rocks were laid down, huge forces beneath the surface pushed the layers up, hundreds of metres into the air. The layers of rock are now visible, often at steep angles and sometimes vertically. It is a unique geological location having sedimentary, metaphoric and volcanic rocks in the one location.
Arkaroola’s unique geological features were recognised by Sir Douglas Mawson, the famous Australian Antarctic explorer. He urged Reg Sprigg to get the pastoral lease of Arkaroola if possible. Reg and his wife Griselda were able to take over the lease in the 1960’s. Arkaroola Wilderness Sanctuary is now run by their children Marg and Doug Sprigg. Those names may sound familiar to some readers, as this family did the first motorised crossing of the Simpson Desert in G60 Patrol.
The best parts of Arkaroola are seen on the world famous Ridgetop Tour whose highlight is the spectacular Sillars Lookout. Surprisingly, many visitors don’t go on the Tour. The tracks at Arkaroola were originally built by mining companies exploring Arkaroola.
There are several old copper mines and smelters around the property including Wheal Turner and Bolla Bollana being examples. The Doc also explored properties nearby Arkaroola and visited the Needles, the Yudnamuntana Historic Site (old copper smelter) and Mt Freeling Station.
There is less bird life at Arkaroola than the Gammon Ranges National Park 30 km to the south. But Arkaroola has a healthy population of Yellow-footed Wallabies, arguably Australia’s most beautiful macropod. The Doc managed to get a few shots.
The tracks constructed by the mining companies allow you to drive in many places across the property. He is a selection of photos from a couple of those drives including Titllite Gorge, Mt Jacobs Track and Stubbs Waterhole.
The Doc also took to the air in a helicopter over Arkaroola and Freeling Heights.
A separate Report on the textures of Arkaroola can be viewed here.
A beautiful place to visit but only part of the broader Flinders Ranges.
Yellow-footed rock wallaby
Female and joey, Brachina Gorge, Flinders Ranges NP, Flinders Ranges, SA.
I was tracking Yellow-footed Rock Wallabies at their colony in Brachina Gorge in the Flinders Ranges. I had walked up a steep incline to follow the wallabies, the female with the joey hopped over the top of the ridge and I thought it was over for the day. A minute of two later the female and joey came back and took a second look and seemingly said good bye before she hopped away.
These wallabies are something to behold when they hop across cliff faces like a kangaroo on flat ground.
Western Grey Kangaroo – mother & joey
On Kangaroo Island Westerns Grey Kangaroos are brown in colour not grey, having been cut off from the mainland for some time. Early one morning a mother and her joey were browsing on the shrubs at the Remarkables.
The Island named Kangaroo Island by Matthew Flinders who could see large numbers of kangaroos (and Tamar Wallabies) all over the Island.
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