'Roo Poo

So since we included them in the title of our blog, it was a major priority for us to find kangaroos (other than on the supermarket shelves). So this weekend we went searching for 'roos. We knew we were on the right track when found great tracks.
Big Eastern Grey Kangaroo tracks:


Smaller Wallaroo tracks:


And we knew we must be getting even closer when we found 'roo poo. And not just a little, but TONS of it - there were piles everywhere.


And sure enough - right around dusk, we finally spotted a wallaroo!! And a little further on we saw a group of Eastern Greys!! They're so cool - they'd sit there and look at you for a little bit, and then SO effortlessly, they'd hop away a little bit. It's just incredible to watch them move. We spent a while that night spot-lighting them - I'm sure we looked real classy with big headlamps and binocs protruding from our faces. It looked a lot like night-time shots that they have in wildlife films, where you can't get a lot of color, but you can still see the animal really well and catch their crazy eye-shine. And sometimes we'd just turn off the headlamps and listen to them hopping around us. Very cool! (Sorry - no pics. It was too dark, and when we spotted them during the day, they were too far.)